What is the recommended way to mount a microSD card so that I can use it as user furios?
(sudo chown ... after a sudo mount ... on the phone reports an error.)
Thanks for the answers. Looking at the way that nautilus mounts it, I added the following line to /etc/fstab and now the sdcard is mounted on reboot as I need it:
/dev/mmcblk0 /media/furios/sdcard ext4 noatime 0 1
Thanks for the hints. I had the same issue but with small differences. My SD card was taken from my Android phone so it was formatted with VFAT and had a partition table. I created an sdcard folder in my home folder, then mounted the card there using the /etc/fstab line:
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /home/furios/sdcard vfat user,auto,noatime 0 1
VFAT is more usable when swapping files with non-Linux devices and also doesn't have a journal so it will not do as much writing to the card.
garydale 04/01/2026 7:29 am
After a little further work, I noticed that the phone automatically mounts the card on boot. However, this is in a a less than ideal location, so creating a symbolic link to /media/furios/mmcblk0p1 in your folder provides easier access.
I'm not sure what happens if you change cards without rebooting, however I suggest that umounting the card before removing it is probably a good idea. It if doesn't automount when you put the new card in, you can always manually mount it now that the old card isn't still mounted.
After plugging one in I was able to access it through /media/furios/sd card name (i think, writing from memory... it may be one more folder deep just follow down from /media) and copy using cli.
So I think it does mount it, it just doesn't expose it to portfolio
I had a similar problem with a VFAT SD card. I could read it but not to write to it as a non-root user. Since I don't know how to change the mount options for the card, I reformatted it as ext4 and then I could do sudo chown and use it normally.
It would be nice to have a FAQ entry for r/w SD card access.
Install Nautilus and it just works 😁.
Portfolio does not see sd cards but otherwise it is better because Nautilus has some annoying touch screen issues - nothing too big but you will notice when you try it
