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My SD card will suddenly not automount. It works on another Mac.

Can someone provide a solution to mount with Terminal?

$ diskutil list

/dev/disk2
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *16.0 GB    disk2
1:             Windows_FAT_32 NO NAME                 16.0 GB    disk2s1
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  • I'm assuming you are using mac os x due to the "mac" remark, please add that info, including OS version, and the laptop model or if you are using a sd to usb adapter. This will help troubleshoot the issue. Do you want to fix the automount or simply mount manually?
    – Leo
    Aug 16, 2018 at 1:48

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Simply mount /dev/disk2s1 /foo Where /foo is an empty directory where you want to access the card. The normal mount point for disks on a mac is within /Volumes but since it isn't auto-mounting, you will need to create a directory somewhere. Don't mount it directly to /Volumes or you won't be able to access your HD, including your OS. You could mount it to your home directory even, below /mnt represents a directory that you've created, in this example, it's in your home directory:

$ sudo mkdir ~/mnt
$ sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk2s1 ~/mnt
$ cd ~/mnt

(of course if you are in your home directory you can leave out the ~/ if you want.)

You can also use the diskutil command. man diskutil to learn more about it. Are you running the same version of OS X on both machines? There are reported issues with FAT32 on Yosemite.

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  • $ mkdir /mnt mount /dev/disk2s1 /mnt cd /mnt mkdir: /mnt: Permission denied mkdir: mount: File exists mkdir: /dev/disk2s1: File exists mkdir: /mnt: Permission denied mkdir: cd: File exists mkdir: /mnt: Permission denied
    – earthling
    Jan 14, 2015 at 8:52
  • both machines are running 10.10.1
    – earthling
    Jan 14, 2015 at 19:14
  • @earthling, try sudo !! You must sudo mkdir and mount also, the new lines did not save in my post, those are separate lines.
    – Deirdre Hendrick
    Jan 14, 2015 at 21:38
  • sudo mount /dev/disk2s1 ~/mnt mount: You must specify a filesystem type with -t
    – earthling
    Jan 15, 2015 at 4:40
  • @earthling, you don't have to, most linuxes can figure it out, I have rarely specified it and never had a problem.
    – Deirdre Hendrick
    Jan 15, 2015 at 12:09
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I solved this by running:

brew cask install osxfuse
brew install ext4fuse
sudo mkdir /Volumes/rpi
sudo ext4fuse /dev/disk2s2 /Volumes/rpi -o allow_other
sudo ls /Volumes/rpi

Solution described: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/13437/how-to-mount-a-raspbian-sd-card-on-a-mac

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