[Discuss] external drive not showing such as sdcard

[jbk]

On 7/9/21 3:02 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> On my HP Envy laptop running Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, the Files 
> application doesn't show USB or sdcards.
>
> I can see USB in terminal in /dev.  However I can't see 
> the sdcard.
>
>     eric at dragonEnvy:/media/eric$ ls -la /dev/sd*
>     brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  0 Jul  9 12:54 /dev/sda
>     brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  1 Jul  9 12:54 /dev/sda1
>     brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  2 Jul  9 12:54 /dev/sda2
>     brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  3 Jul  9 12:54 /dev/sda3
>     brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 Jul  9 13:19 /dev/sdb  // 
> the USB dongle

What is the partition type on the card, ntfs? If it is ntfs 
then maybe you need to install a helper program to be able 
to mount and read the partition on the card.

-- 
Jim Kelly-Rand
jbk at kjkelra.com