Micro sd card not recognized as extra storage?

[Andrew Hendricks]

I am running Ubuntu 13.10 build from here:

http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#eMMC:_BeagleBone_Black

and followed the instructions to set up the micro SD card as extra storage space, here:

http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:MicroSD_As_Extra_Storage

Now, I'm rather new to linux commands and new to the BBB. I may have misunderstood what I've been reading, but when I use the command df I get:

Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/mmcblk1p2   1738184 1176724    471496  72% /

none                   4       0         4   0% /sys/fs/cgroup

udev              252148       4    252144   1% /dev

tmpfs              50756     232     50524   1% /run

none                5120       0      5120   0% /run/lock

none              253760       0    253760   0% /run/shm

none              102400       0    102400   0% /run/user

/dev/mmcblk1p1     72098   19742     52356  28% /boot/uboot

If I understand correctly, the micro SD card is mmcblk0p1 and it isn't listed here. I'd like to set it up so the micro SD card is extra space that I can store and run programs on, not just store files, which I think is what this is saying as df shows the file system disk usage. I can't even figure out how to get to the micro SD card though I know it's there. The command fdisk -l shows mmcblk0p1 with the correct partitions of my micro SD card.

Any help is appreciated.

Andrew

[William Hermans]

$sudo fdisk -l

That is lower case L or "el". Be very careful how else you run fdisk, as a newb you could accidentally wipe your media.

Also those instructions are whack. Not very clear . . .

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[Andrew Hendricks]

I used a lower case L. 

"Also those instructions are whack. Not very clear..."

Are you referring to the instructions I followed that I have linked, or what I described as the problem I am facing?

[Robert Nelson]

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Andrew Hendricks <zinxt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I used a lower case L.
>
> "Also those instructions are whack. Not very clear..."
>
> Are you referring to the instructions I followed that I have linked, or what
> I described as the problem I am facing?

They are actually not even needed.. Since your running my ubuntu
image, just insert the card, hotplug should work and you should see it
via "lsblk"..

Regards,

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[William Hermans]

http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:MicroSD_As_Extra_Storage

^^^ those instructions are whack. The person who wrote that should have their posting capability taken away. I mean if you guess at what the person is talking about, and know a bit about the procedure, then yeah I guess those instructions could work.

However . . .

"These instructions are meant to be executed in Angstrom's GUI on your BeagleBone Black. 

...

...

1. Using a USB adapter, insert the microSD into a USB hub on your BeagleBone Black (along with a mouse and keyboard)"

Uh . . . riiiiight.

Anyway, like Robert says you can use lsblk, blkid, fdisk, and possibly a few other tools to locate your extra disk space.