Re: [OCLUG-Tech] SD card

2012-01-20 Thread Singer X.J. Wang
There is no on card processor on the SD cards.. S On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 16:46, Rick Leir wrote: > On 19/01/2012 3:10 PM, linux-requ...@lists.oclug.on.ca wrote: > > the actual capacity of the SD card was noticeably > > less than advertised. > From wikipedia: > All SD cards incorporate a digit

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] SD card

2012-01-20 Thread Charles MacDonald
Love when you pay for a feature that REDUCES the utility of what you bought.. Wasted memory to stop you from using the rest of the card if t does not like what you are doing - Wonderful... On 12-01-19 04:46 PM, Rick Leir wrote: > On 19/01/2012 3:10 PM, linux-requ...@lists.oclug.on.ca wrote: >> t

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] SD card

2012-01-20 Thread Spencer Cheng
On Jan 19, 2012, at 16:46, Rick Leir wrote: > On 19/01/2012 3:10 PM, linux-requ...@lists.oclug.on.ca wrote: > All SD cards incorporate a digital rights management It's a bit more complicated than that. Each SD card has 2 separate FAT(32?) file system on it. The unprotected file system is one y

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] SD card

2012-01-20 Thread Rick Leir
On 19/01/2012 3:10 PM, linux-requ...@lists.oclug.on.ca wrote: > the actual capacity of the SD card was noticeably > less than advertised. From wikipedia: All SD cards incorporate a digital rights management (DRM) scheme. Roughly 10% of the

[OCLUG-Tech] Deleted folder

2012-01-20 Thread NORMA GOLDSMITH
Hello, Would you know of a Linux expert who could recover a deleted folder?  When I realized what I had done, I did click on Cancel but I can't see superficial evidence that it stopped the delete action.  I've been using a Mepis distribution. I am switching computers and also need to know if

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to determine the *usable* size of an SD card?

2012-01-20 Thread Martin Hicks
I think this info comes from mort@chinook:~/tmp$ cat /sys/block/sda/size 625142448 mh On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Raj wrote: > df -k will give you the size of a formatted filesystem, not the raw > capacity of a device. > > fdisk -l will give you capacity information. > > On Thu, Jan 19,

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to determine the *usable* size of an SD card?

2012-01-20 Thread Jeff Moncrieff
I have seen this before when sell 4gb it actual 4000 Mb not 4096 Mb it the oldest trick in the book Sent from my iPhone On 2012-01-20, at 3:32 AM, "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Charles MacDonald wrote: > >> On 12-01-19 03:35 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> On Thu, 19 Jan 20

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to determine the *usable* size of an SD card?

2012-01-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Charles MacDonald wrote: > On 12-01-19 03:35 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Andrew Galloway wrote: > > > >> df -k will give you the blocksize in 1k blocks > > > >i don't think so. that tells me 8213480 1K blocks, and that's > > definitely more than i