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On a new laptop I installed Ubuntu 18.04. Everything works fine, except for auto mount of sd cards. After inserting an sd card in the internal card reader, dmesg says:

mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address b368
mmcblk0: mmc0:b368       7.46 GiB 
mmcblk0: p1
mmcblk0: p1

The driver seems to be working OK because manually mounting works with:

sudo mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt

However, this makes the sd card read-only for all normal users. From my old laptop with the previous version of ubuntu, I was used to usb drives that automatically mount to /media/{user}/{volumename} and that can be unmounted with a context mouse menu on the menu icon for the drive.

My questions are:

  • how is this auto mount feature configured?
  • how do I get this auto mount behaviour to work on my new laptop?

update:

googling the first bullet I found:

https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/hardware-cardreader.html.en

with the suggestion to open the Files in the Activities list and do control-L and search for computer:/// . This made the sd card visible. This does not solve my second question, but if this had a solution, it would be mentioned there, and anyway this is a workable situation

Roland
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It turns out that there is no technical problem, but a new Ubuntu GUI. In the Files activity, under Other Locations, the SD card shows up in a very intuitive way, similar to Computer overview of Windows. To me it seems that this top level overview is rather hidden here.

The documentation in https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/hardware-cardreader.html.en is not exactly in sync, as it mentions a device list in the side bar, not under Other Locations.

On my previous ubuntu system a popup would appear at insertion of a usb drive. Removal of the popup could be a feature or a bug :-)

Roland
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  • There should be a schema in gsettings for displaying mounted devices on desktop. Obviously not a popup but a viable workaround. Unfortunately I no longer have the usual Ubuntu desktop, so can't provide which exact schema should be altered. – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Jul 23 '18 at 02:06