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How do I, in Ubuntu, determine what the formatting (e.g FAT etc.) of an SD card is?

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Use the fdisk /dev/whicheveryourdevice is.

You can determine which device your SD card is by running dmesg.

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If it's mounted, you can try using the mount command to see what the format is.

If not, you can try running gparted (or disk utility if that's in your menus) to have it tell you the partition's format.

Just be careful not to change the partitions, only view the information. Gparted makes it quite explicit (you have to "apply" potential changes in order for anything to happen).

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sudo fdisk -l

By executing this command (after fdisk, it is hyphen small l), you would be able to know the format type of your SD card along with the rest of the disks attached to your system.

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Plug the SD card into a reader, open the Disks application, and read the screen. The filesystem - fat, etc. - is displayed for all your disks and filesystems.

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