[4.1.0.23] Nickname of the SD card not used in the card filesystem path anymore

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#1

REPRODUCIBILITY (% or how often): 100%
BUILD ID = OS VERSION (Settings > About product): 4.1.0.23
HARDWARE (XA2, Xperia 10…): XA2
UI LANGUAGE: DE
REGRESSION: (compared to previous public release: Yes, No, ?): no

DESCRIPTION:

Sd card is no more mounted into /media/sdcard/cardname but in /media/sdcard/cardhashname.
This is fatal if people have stuff which rely on the cardname.

PRECONDITIONS:

Mounted card

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

  1. Mount a card (with a known name)
  2. ls `/media/sdcard/known_name

EXPECTED RESULT:

directory is shown

ACTUAL RESULT:

file not found.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Would it be possible to define the path of the card once and never ever again? This mount path moved minimum 5 times on SFOS living. With all due respect: that sucks! You never know if e.g. your backup concept works, all tricks to outsource data from /home/username (by moving to sd card and link) may also break the system. This is more necessary for enterprise environments with e. g. automatical backup concepts.

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[release notes] Kvarken 4.1.0
gPodder and micro-sd card
Name of SD Card
Name of SD Card
#2

Thanks for reporting. I will file a bug on this. Indeed, /media/sdcard shows the long and difficult UID code now, instead of the label/nickname given when formating the card.

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#3

Already mentioned a resulting effect here: [4.0.1.48] Most of android apps stopped working after update

And it is also confirmed by Jolla: https://irclogs.sailfishos.org/logs/%23sailfishos/%23sailfishos.2021-05-14.log.html

As you mentioned, it is quite frustrating to see this changing again and again, breaking stuff.

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#4

Is there a way to modify a/some file manually to change the mounted SD card path to be the same it was before.

Tried to figure it out, but I only found instructions to have SD card available for alien dalvik/android.

I need my old SD card path for native software.

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#5

Sounds like a job for a udev rule and/or systemd path file. Wait for UUID to appear, make symlink using nickname when it does.

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#6

Huge pain in the hole, killed my beautiful syncthing/sailfish integration.

#7

Changing sdcard mount path every second update sucks a lot. The same goes for connmann settings.

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#8

Sound like

relative to SailfishOS 3.4.0 (as it appeared in 4.0.1 AFAIU).

Name of SD Card
#9

This broke my back routine. I fixed my scripts but I would like to have both paths/symlink.

#10

So.
Half a year and two releases later:
Will we see a fix sometime?

@jovirkku asking you directly but please feel free to forward/raise inside Jolla. Or could you share some insights, please?

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#11

@jovirkku, any news WRT this regression since SailfishOS 4.1.0?

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#12

It is possible to force using partition labels using the following snippet in file /etc/udev/rules.d/99-udisknames.rules:

SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{PARTNAME}!="", ENV{UDISKS_NAME}="$env{PARTNAME}"
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#13

@DrYak Doesn’t work for me I’m afraid. It still shows the long name. In the other thread - Name of SD Card I showed the various names for the card and I see that in there I don’t have a partition name. I have LABEL and PARTLABEL. Is that the reason that it shows up under ls /media/sdcard/ as the long name still?

#14

Damn, indeed, behaviour has changed in recent versions of udisk2. (It’s still passed as a suggestion for the GUI, but not for the mount-point.

The last-ditch work-around I’ve fallen back to (and this one I’ve just tested, it’s still working with the latest 4.4.0.64 on 10iii):

File /etc/systemd/system/run-media-nemo-Ulysse31.mount ( ← that’s basically the mount path as in Where= below, but with dashes - instead of slashes /):

[Unit]
Description=SD card

[Mount]
What=/dev/disk/by-uuid/f8c2502a-b267-438a-9591-9e84e28afb9a
Where=/run/media/nemo/Ulysse31
Type=btrfs
Options=defaults

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

This forces a specific UUID to be mounted as a specific path.

Then you:

udiskctl unmount -b /dev/mmcblk0p1
systemctl enable --now /etc/systemd/system/run-media-nemo-Ulysse31

This will work for your “usual” card(s) or USB-C stick(s) for which you make a custom .mount systemd unit, but of course any unknown new SD card or USB-C stick will be mounted by UUID again.

Normally, blkid's LABEL == ùdevd/udisk2`'s PARTNAME.

  • LABEL is the partition name as used by blkid (the thing that you assign when formatting a filesystem, e.g. with mkfs.ext4 -L FunnyName or the Windows FAT32 formatter).
  • PARTLABEL is the name that some partionning systems can give to entries in the partition table. e.g. GPT-partitionned stick can have a PARTLABEL. MS-DOS partitionned one don’t have this.
  • PARTNAME is the partition name, but udisk2 uses a different way to LABEL by blkid.
  • UDISKS_NAME nowadays is only used by udisk when suggesting name for GUI’s filemanager, it’s not used for mount-points anymore.
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#15

Yep. That works for me once I’d fixed the mount type. D’oh!

Many thanks.

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#16

The main issue is not to find temporary solution but that there is no consistent, stable sdcard mounting scheme/script, i.e /mnt/sdcard1 or /media/sdcard1 mounting point regardless of that mounted by system. Just like it is provided for alien dalvik.

#17

Just had to install a new Phone as I broke my Xperia 10 and now the user is renamed which broke restoring backups and the SD card isn’t mounted so that I and at least one app can find it.
Ok, I found it as I know my way around Linux but first time in the “File Browser” I searched a little until I swiped left and discovered it in “Places” “Storage devices”.

Too bad that ownKeepass can’t find the SD card. I guess, have to write a udev rule to fix this.

@jolla this wasn’t the experience I expected after smooth sailing on the 2 previous Phones!

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