[SOLVED] Unable to put MP3 files onto SD card-- was able before latest MX

[sps7]

JayM, I did as you instructed but still no luck: I still can't paste an MP3 file into the SD card.

Tell me: what should the group for an SD card usually be? As I mentioned here, for Dolphin (looking at the SD card) > Properties > Permissions > Ownership, my username is in the User line and in the Group line. Is that OK or not?

[JayM]

Can you open a terminal in /media and run

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ls -l

then do the same in /media/sps7 and /media/sps7/322D-9B28 and post the results? (Inside [code] [/code] tags of course.) I'm not interested in seeing your files on the card, just in seeing who owns them: whether it says you:you or root:root for the files and subdirectories in each of those directories, so you could just post that information if you prefer. No code tags required either if you do it that way.

[sps7]

While there was no /media/sps7/322D-9B28 (which might have been found when I had the lower capacity SD card in, not the one I want to put more MP3 files on), here, while the 16 GB SD card's in the card reader (this is the one I want to paste onto-- it now has > 1,300 MP3 files on it), are the outputs for the commands you gave me. For the lowest one below, I couldn't go to the start of the output in the terminal (since the number of lines was so huge), I just copied what I saw for one of the lines of output, a line I figure you want to see:

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/media# ls -l
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul 26 12:32 sdb1
drwxr-x---+ 4 root root 4096 Aug 28 23:16 sps7

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/media/sps7# ls -l
total 308
drwxr-x--T 416 sps7 sps7  36864 Aug 21 01:49 data
drwxr-xr-x   3 sps7 sps7 278528 Dec 31  1969 DD6D-9696

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/media/sps7/DD6D-9696# ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 sps7 sps7

I don't know why the SD card shows up (above) as sdb1 while in kdf, in Gparted and in KDE Partition Manager it shows up as sdb.

[JayM]

Is sps7 your user name in MX?

[sps7]

Yes it is.

[sps7]

Well, to tell the truth, I changed what you saw in the output, changing from a 4 letter real name from my birth to sps7 which is what I use here in this forum. I suppose you noticed something that made you ask me that question. Is there a problem because I made that change in those 3 outputs you asked for?

[JayM]

No, I just wanted to verify whether you were the owner of those directories rather than something named sp7 that wasn't you. So, it doesn't appear to be any sort of a directory permissions issue.

Can you back up the files on one of the two SD cards then reformat it using gparted and see if you can write to it afterward?

[sps7]

OK, I'll do that later. I have to go to sleep soon. What format should I pick for the 16 GB SD card I use for all those MP3 files?

[JayM]

The same file system as it already has, VFAT or FAT32, whichever it is now (assuming you plan to also insert the card in other devices like an mp3 player or something. If you plan to use this SD card exclusively in MX Linux you could format it as ext4 if you like.)

If reformatting the card doesn't fix in, create a new partition table on the SD card in gparted (in the Device dropdown menu) then format it again and retest it. You'll want an msdos partition table.

[tony37]

Maybe I'm wrong here but in post #5 I see:

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/dev/sdb1 on /media/sps7/322D-9B28 type vfat (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=utf8,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2)

And in post #13:

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/media# ls -l
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul 26 12:32 sdb1
drwxr-x---+ 4 root root 4096 Aug 28 23:16 sps7

So is this device somehow mounted on /media/sdb1 and on /media/sps7/[UUID] ? Something wrong in /etc/fstab maybe?
Or is the sdb1 device in the second post another device than the SD card?
In any case I don't think it's normal to have a directory /media/sdb1 as you normally have /media/username/UUID