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I am using Manjaro Linux on my Chromebook Pixel. My camera is Oly E-M5. I mount the SD card with the command

sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sdc1 /media/sdcard

The card seems to mount correctly, and I can see the directory where the images should be stored (/DCIM/100OLYMP/), as well as two other files I placed on the root of the SD card. However, the 100OLYMP folder is empty. The “free space” indicator in Thunar tells me it is also almost empty.

However, I can browse all the images I have taken when the SD card is in the camera. I haven't tried any other computers yet as none of my friends have SD card readers. Any ideas? Here is the output of fdisk -l:

/dev/sdc1  *    32768 124735487 124702720 59.5G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
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adamweld
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You are trying to mount the SD card via exfat:

sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sdc1 /media/sdcard

But to my knowledge, most camera SD cards are DOS formatted. So you would use a command like this to view contents:

sudo mount -t msdos /dev/sdc1 /media/sdcard

I believe the reason you can mount the SD card with exfat but can’t view the contents is that exfat assumes FAT32 for the disk, but msdos is FAT16.

Giacomo1968
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You seem to have a 64GB card, which is necessarily SDXC. I cannot find the specification of the card reader on the Chromebook, but I suspect it may be only SDHC, with a size limit of 32GB. I can't be completely sure, because I have never plugged an SDXC card into an SDHC reader, so I don't know if you can see any of its file system when you do.

You have two options for reading the card on your Chromebook:-

  • Buy a USB card reader with SDXC support.
  • Connect the camera with an appropriate USB cable, and it will appear as an external disc.
AFH
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