What is the problem?
My other problem kept persisting, so I thought to update and start from scratch. I tried flashing the card, but it kept failing. Now I am trying to erase the card completely, but it will not let me. The Boot drive will just not format. And using sudo diskutil eraseDisk FAT32 MYSD MBRFormat /dev/disk2 keeps saying the following
Creating the partition map
Waiting for partitions to activate
Formatting disk2s1 as MS-DOS (FAT32) with name MYSD
Error: -69830: This operation requires an unmounted disk
This is what the card looks like.
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *7.9 GB disk2
1: Windows_FAT_32 boot 45.2 MB disk2s1
2: Linux 7.9 GB disk2s2
Tried both macOS Disk Utility and diskutil on the command line. But nothing works.
When you burn a now image onto a SD card, there is no need of formatting the card before. During the burn, all formatting information are deleted anyhow.
well this is not the case. The etcher will just not burn my card any more. So I need to format it some how, but this also isn't working. All I get is "failed" and all the original data is on the card.
The error message says what is wrong. You cannot format a mounted filesystem.
If you are booted to the SD card, you cannot format it. If you have booted to something else, and the card is in a reader, Linux probably automounted it. If that is the case, before you format, you have to use "sudo umount /Dev/disk2"
I have never seen a drive in Linux as /Dev/diskxx, so I am not sure what you are using
Best way is to use Windows and download sdcard Formatter
If that fails to format the card, then the card is defective and cannot be used
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