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**SteveRiley** · Apr 01, 2015, 10:43 PM

Please open a console window. Run:

Code:

udevadm monitor

Some lines will print and the console will wait. Insert the USB drive. More lines will print. Press Enter to create a blank line in the console. Remove the drive. Yet more lines will print. Press Ctrl+C. Copy/paste all the output into a reply here.

Also paste the output of these commands, with the drive inserted:

Code:

sudo lsblk -o name,maj:min,fstype,mountpoint,ro,rm,model,state,mode,type,tran

blkid

sudo blkid -ip /dev/sdb

**snagglebits** · Apr 02, 2015, 10:40 AM

Excellent.
Here we go:

{{{udevadm monitor}}}

Code:

monitor will print the received events for:
UDEV - the event which udev sends out after rule processing
KERNEL - the kernel uevent

{{{Plugging USB SD card in}}}

Code:

KERNEL[3152.256578] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1 (usb)
KERNEL[3152.256668] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0 (usb)
KERNEL[3152.259145] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11 (scsi)
KERNEL[3152.259346] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/scsi_host/host11 (scsi_host)
UDEV  [3152.277869] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1 (usb)
UDEV  [3152.281691] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0 (usb)
UDEV  [3152.281722] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11 (scsi)
UDEV  [3152.281741] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/scsi_host/host11 (scsi_host)
KERNEL[3155.898146] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0 (scsi)
KERNEL[3155.898286] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0 (scsi)
KERNEL[3155.898306] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/scsi_disk/11:0:0:0 (scsi_disk)
KERNEL[3155.898325] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/scsi_device/11:0:0:0 (scsi_device)
KERNEL[3155.900312] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/scsi_generic/sg2 (scsi_generic)
KERNEL[3155.900337] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/bsg/11:0:0:0 (bsg)
UDEV  [3155.912490] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0 (scsi)
UDEV  [3155.913863] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0 (scsi)
UDEV  [3155.914239] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/scsi_disk/11:0:0:0 (scsi_disk)
UDEV  [3155.915675] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/scsi_device/11:0:0:0 (scsi_device)
UDEV  [3155.917079] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/scsi_generic/sg2 (scsi_generic)
UDEV  [3155.917369] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/bsg/11:0:0:0 (bsg)
KERNEL[3161.804086] add      /devices/virtual/bdi/8:16 (bdi)
KERNEL[3161.804123] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/block/sdb (block)
KERNEL[3161.805375] change   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/block/sdb (block)
UDEV  [3161.818678] add      /devices/virtual/bdi/8:16 (bdi)
KERNEL[3161.820749] change   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/block/sdb (block)
UDEV  [3161.849893] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/block/sdb (block)
UDEV  [3161.857932] change   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/block/sdb (block)
UDEV  [3161.863100] change   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/block/sdb (block)

{{{Taking out the USB SD Card}}}

Code:

KERNEL[3195.032302] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/bsg/11:0:0:0 (bsg)
KERNEL[3195.032496] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/scsi_generic/sg2 (scsi_generic)
KERNEL[3195.032526] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/scsi_device/11:0:0:0 (scsi_device)
KERNEL[3195.032553] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/scsi_disk/11:0:0:0 (scsi_disk)
KERNEL[3195.032581] remove   /devices/virtual/bdi/8:16 (bdi)
KERNEL[3195.032771] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/block/sdb (block)
KERNEL[3195.032801] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0 (scsi)
KERNEL[3195.032828] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0 (scsi)
KERNEL[3195.032855] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/scsi_host/host11 (scsi_host)
KERNEL[3195.032881] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11 (scsi)
KERNEL[3195.032912] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0 (usb)
KERNEL[3195.033120] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1 (usb)
UDEV  [3195.048789] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/bsg/11:0:0:0 (bsg)
UDEV  [3195.049677] remove   /devices/virtual/bdi/8:16 (bdi)
UDEV  [3195.050581] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/scsi_host/host11 (scsi_host)
UDEV  [3195.051266] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/block/sdb (block)
UDEV  [3195.062123] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/scsi_disk/11:0:0:0 (scsi_disk)
UDEV  [3195.063813] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/scsi_device/11:0:0:0 (scsi_device)
UDEV  [3195.064097] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/scsi_generic/sg2 (scsi_generic)
UDEV  [3195.064119] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0 (scsi)
UDEV  [3195.064137] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11/target11:0:0 (scsi)
UDEV  [3195.064156] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host11 (scsi)
UDEV  [3195.064455] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0 (usb)
UDEV  [3195.064487] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1 (usb)

{{{Results from lsblk -o name,maj:min,fstype,mountpoint,ro,rm,model,state,m ode,type,tran as sudo}}}

Code:

NAME   MAJ:MIN FSTYPE MOUNTPOINT RO RM MODEL            STATE   MODE       TYPE TRAN
sda      8:0                      0  0 Samsung SSD 850  running brw-rw---- disk sata
├─sda1   8:1   ext4   /           0  0                          brw-rw---- part 
├─sda2   8:2                      0  0                          brw-rw---- part 
└─sda5   8:5                      0  0                          brw-rw---- part 
sr0     11:0                      0  1 DVDRAM GSA-U20N  running brw-rw---- rom  sata

{{{Results from blkid}}}

Code:

/dev/sda1: UUID="033feddf-c9c9-4b26-95f2-9935ddadcc19" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="69d9ad3c-01"

{{{Results from blkid -ip /dev/sdb as sudo}}}

Code:

error: /dev/sdb: No medium found

I can confirm that Disk is showing it as connected.

**snagglebits** · Apr 03, 2015, 03:40 PM

Hi There, I have tried to post 5 times over the past 2 days, and I keep being told that my post has to be approved by a moderator. What gives?

**SteveRiley** · Apr 03, 2015, 03:56 PM

Sorry... I missed the moderation notices. I just approved your first attempt.

I'm flummoxed as to why your computer is behaving this way. Both the kernel and Udev detect the drive and the outputs of the monitor look fine. I'll need to think about this one for a bit.

**SteveRiley** · Apr 03, 2015, 03:58 PM

Is there an SD card slot in your ThinkPad? If so, what happens if you try to use the SD card in there rather than in the USB adapter?

Edit: also, what's the brand and model of the SD card? Where did you obtain it from?

**snagglebits** · Apr 03, 2015, 07:24 PM

Oh, haha. Sweet. I thought there was something wrong with my machine. I moved to a mac and typed up the "wtd" reply on it.
--please see below, as I was composing this message, I see you replied. My answers are below. ----
At any rate, I tried some other things. I tried plugging the card into my mac (with the same USB card reader) and opened up Disk Utility. It read all three partitions (recovery, boot, and s2e4). It wouldn't let me DO anything to them, other than copy them to the mac drive. Which I did.

When I brought them back to the kubuntu machine, Gnome-Disk manager ("Disks") was able to read the size of the card, and shows all three as a SINGLE partition (screenshot attached).
Now, when I run sudo fdisk -l, it detects it. I get the following.

Code:

Disk /dev/sdb: 59.1 GiB, 63416827904 bytes, 123860992 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x000d3916

Device     Boot   Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1          2048 2324218 2322171  1.1G  e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
/dev/sdb2       2326528 8028159 5701632  2.7G 85 Linux extended
/dev/sdb5       2334720 2449407  114688   56M  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Cool! Right? Well, I started trying out this tutorial. (df -h still won't detect it), but I tried running the first parted command. I got a bug notification!

Code:

justin@ThinkPad-T400 ~> sudo parted /dev/sdb
GNU Parted 3.2
Using /dev/sdb
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) unit chs                                                         
(parted) print                                                            
Backtrace has 13 calls on stack:
  13: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.2(ped_assert+0x44) [0x7f5ab3bdf2d4]
  12: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.2(+0x1e7a6) [0x7f5ab3bf27a6]
  11: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.2(+0xfd3a) [0x7f5ab3be3d3a]
  10: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.2(ped_disk_add_partition+0x263) [0x7f5ab3be4633]
  9: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.2(+0x1e085) [0x7f5ab3bf2085]
  8: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.2(+0x1e0bf) [0x7f5ab3bf20bf]
  7: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.2(+0x1f1d5) [0x7f5ab3bf31d5]
  6: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.2(ped_disk_new+0x48) [0x7f5ab3be4258]
  5: parted() [0x407769]
  4: parted(interactive_mode+0xff) [0x40ca2f]
  3: parted(main+0x119f) [0x405f6f]
  2: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f5ab33c2ec5]
  1: parted() [0x405fc7]


You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do:

Don't panic! The bug has most likely not affected any of your data.
Help us to fix this bug by doing the following:

Check whether the bug has already been fixed by checking
the last version of GNU Parted that you can find at:

        http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/

Please check this version prior to bug reporting.

If this has not been fixed yet or if you don't know how to check,
please visit the GNU Parted website:

        http://www.gnu.org/software/parted

for further information.

Your report should contain the version of this release (3.2)
along with the error message below, the output of

        parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print

and the following history of commands you entered.
Also include any additional information about your setup you
consider important.

Assertion (metadata_length > 0) at ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:2313 in function
add_logical_part_metadata() failed.

So, I don't know if this helps you at all.

------OKay, so, I see your reply:
PS, to answer your questions, it is a SONY 64GB SDXC card. Purchased from Amazon.com and NO, I do not, sadly have a built in-- holy sh**! I have a built in card reader (I thought that was an expansion slot! Well, it behaves similarly to how it did above. Gnome Disks sees all three partitions as 1 single partition. df -h won't read it. Sudo Fdisk -l gives me this:

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x69d9ad3c

Device     Boot     Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *         2048 970692607 970690560 462.9G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2       970694654 976771071   6076418   2.9G  5 Extended
/dev/sda5       970694656 976771071   6076416   2.9G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Ignoring extra data in partition table 5.

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 59.1 GiB, 63416827904 bytes, 123860992 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x000d3916

Device         Boot   Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/mmcblk0p1         2048 2324218 2322171  1.1G  e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2      2326528 8028159 5701632  2.7G 85 Linux extended
/dev/mmcblk0p5      2334720 2449407  114688   56M  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

I tried sudo parted on mmcblk0, and got to "unit chs" and "print" and got the same error message. Again, don't know if they are related. Could be a compatibility problem with SDXC?

**snagglebits** · Apr 05, 2015, 01:56 PM

Allright, so, since I seem to have resolved the issue with my original problem here (by putting it on a mac and copying the partitions over using Disk Utility), I guess I can close it, since now I am having an issue with Parted not working:

Code:

Assertion (metadata_length > 0) at ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:2313 in function
add_logical_part_metadata() failed.

So, maybe we just close this and I will open a new thread? Or do I just sit with this one? I am really amiable here, since I guess my issue is "How do I resize my f'ing Rpi partition? This really sucks", which is not the function of the Kubuntu forum. My install of Kubuntu is working really well.

**SteveRiley** · Apr 05, 2015, 11:02 PM

It's fine, we can continue to discuss the issue here. (In general, we are pretty loose here at KFN. We don't see any upside in enforcing a bunch of stifling rules on our friendly community here.)

But I dunno if we'll get very far in the discussion, heh. Something about that SD card is a little unusual. I wouldn't give much credence to Parted's claim "you found a bug." Given that other utilities are having trouble sussing this card's partition details, I'd say that there's something wrong with the partition table itself. Perhaps a byte or even a bit is out of place. This could very well confuse some utilities while not causing problems with others.

The reason I asked about the brand and model is because there are a lot of fake memory cards glutting the market. It's usually a no-name Chinese thing claiming to be 64 or 128 GB but having only 1 or 2 GB actual space. The really cheap ones will show their true space with something like df. Others will have fake partition tables that claim more space than really exists. There are ways to verify this -- see the following URLs.

http://superuser.com/questions/59834...-card-in-linux
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...ds-using-linux

Please run fdisk on that card again. Press x for extra functionality. Then press d followed by D. What's the output?

**snagglebits** · Apr 07, 2015, 12:37 AM

Well, its really awesome that you're helping me.

I am familiar with the counterfeit card racket. But, Amazon Prime... on sale via a Gizmodo "Dealzmodo" post. Probably legit.

Checked out some of the deeper bowels of fdisk, this is what it gave me (ran normal fdisk -l for reference):

Code:

Device         Boot   Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/mmcblk0p1         2048 2324218 2322171  1.1G  e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2      2326528 8028159 5701632  2.7G 85 Linux extended
/dev/mmcblk0p5      2334720 2449407  114688   56M  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Code:

justin@ThinkPad-T400 ~> sudo fdisk /dev/mmcblk0

Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.25.1).                                                                    
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.

Ignoring extra data in partition table 5.

Command (m for help): x

Expert command (m for help): d


First sector: offset = 0, size = 512 bytes.
00000000  fa b8 00 10 8e d0 bc 00  b0 b8 00 00 8e d8 8e c0
00000010  fb be 00 7c bf 00 06 b9  00 02 f3 a4 ea 21 06 00
00000020  00 be be 07 38 04 75 0b  83 c6 10 81 fe fe 07 75
00000030  f3 eb 16 b4 02 b0 01 bb  00 7c b2 80 8a 74 01 8b
00000040  4c 02 cd 13 ea 00 7c 00  00 eb fe 00 00 00 00 00
00000050  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
*
000001b0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  16 39 0d 00 00 00 00 00
000001c0  01 20 0e 03 d0 ff 00 08  00 00 fb 6e 23 00 00 03
000001d0  d0 ff 85 03 d0 ff 00 80  23 00 00 00 57 00 00 00
000001e0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
000001f0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa

Expert command (m for help): D

MBR: offset = 0, size = 512 bytes.
00000000  fa b8 00 10 8e d0 bc 00  b0 b8 00 00 8e d8 8e c0
00000010  fb be 00 7c bf 00 06 b9  00 02 f3 a4 ea 21 06 00
00000020  00 be be 07 38 04 75 0b  83 c6 10 81 fe fe 07 75
00000030  f3 eb 16 b4 02 b0 01 bb  00 7c b2 80 8a 74 01 8b
00000040  4c 02 cd 13 ea 00 7c 00  00 eb fe 00 00 00 00 00
00000050  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
*
000001b0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  16 39 0d 00 00 00 00 00
000001c0  01 20 0e 03 d0 ff 00 08  00 00 fb 6e 23 00 00 03
000001d0  d0 ff 85 03 d0 ff 00 80  23 00 00 00 57 00 00 00
000001e0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
000001f0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa

EBR: offset = 1191182336, size = 512 bytes.
47000000  fa b8 00 10 8e d0 bc 00  b0 b8 00 00 8e d8 8e c0
47000010  fb be 00 7c bf 00 06 b9  00 02 f3 a4 ea 21 06 00
47000020  00 be be 07 38 04 75 0b  83 c6 10 81 fe fe 07 75
47000030  f3 eb 16 b4 02 b0 01 bb  00 7c b2 80 8a 74 01 8b
47000040  4c 02 cd 13 ea 00 7c 00  00 eb fe 00 00 00 00 00
47000050  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
*
470001b0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  31 7b 0c 00 00 00 00 82
470001c0  03 00 0c a5 1e 07 00 20  00 00 00 c0 01 00 00 00
470001d0  00 00 83 00 00 00 00 e0  01 00 00 20 55 00 00 00
470001e0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
470001f0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa

**SteveRiley** · Apr 08, 2015, 04:24 PM

The raw partition dumps can be useful to see if anything's out of place. I'm going to be traveling for a few days -- I can study this when I'm back next week.

**snagglebits** · Apr 08, 2015, 04:29 PM

Thanks Steve. Enjoy your travel (hopefully it is for vacation or other restorative purpose).

**SteveRiley** · Apr 08, 2015, 04:40 PM

My kids' high school band was invited to march in some parades at Disney Land. So it's kind of a vacation yeah

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Trying to resize Rpi SD card - can't find with df -h or fdisk on Kubuntu 14.10

Trying to resize Rpi SD card - can't find with df -h or fdisk on Kubuntu 14.10

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