Topic for Pinephone enthousiasts: how to proceed If we want an SD card with privacy data & use it on the Pinephone as well as on a PC? – PETER GAMMA (Director & Physiologist), MEDITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SWITZERLAND (MRIS)

Last Updated on June 14, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

Ubuntu Touch does not offer to write to the external SD card.
So i installed PostmarketOS on my Pinephone.
To get it the easiest way I installed PostmarketOS on the external SD card of my Pinephone.
I thought this would be the easiest way to process further files which are stored on my external Pinephone SD card together with the postmarketOS distro.
I then pulled the SD card where the whole postmarketOS was installed with my Abiword files I created from my Pinephone.
Then I have sticked it into a PC running Ubuntu:
But it was not that easy:
The problem was with permissions:

How can I get the permissions to write to the external SD card on my Ubuntu PC which I have pulled out from my Pinephone running postmarketOS and sticked into my Ubuntu PC with an SD card reader?
I’ve installed postmarkedOS on the external SD card of my Pinephone as well as Abiword.
I have created a file with Abiword and saved it.
Then I’ve plugged it into a PC running Ubuntu.
I can open the Abiword file on my Ubuntu PC.
But when I want to save it a get an error, that I have no permission to write this file onto my SD card from my postmarketOS Pinephone.
How can I get this permission?

We invite all Pinephone enthousiasts to participate to solve this problem.

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