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Adoptable Storage

There are two ways to use an SD card with the device. Android use all SD cards as portable storage before, you can remove and insert the SD card from the device or plug it into the computer or another device and transfer files, like videos, music, and photos. The Android device will continue working properly if you remove it.

Starting in Android 6.0, Android supports adoptable storage, which enables a user to set up the SD card as internal storage and store applications, their data, and media on an "adopted" SD card. Please refer to "Storage" section on the Android website https://source.android.com/devices/storage/index.html

Browse the SD

Android 6 Marshmallow also includes a built-in file manager feature to browse the SD card.

• Launch the Settings app.
• Tap on Storage & USB.
• Tap on SD card to explore the files.

External storage (SD/MMC card) is managed by a combination of the vold init service and MountService system service. Mounting of physical external storage volumes is handled by vold, which performs staging operations to prepare the media before exposing it to apps. Please refer to "Device Configuration" section on the Andrid website http://source.android.com/devices/storage/config.html

fstab.device

/devices/soc0/soc/2100000.aips-bus/219c000.usdhc/mmc_host* auto auto defaults voldmanaged=sdcard:auto,encryptable=userdata

Check sysfs node

# cat /sys/block/mmcblk0/device/type
MMC
# cat /sys/block/mmcblk2/device/type
SD

SD/MMC Card insertion

The kernel starts scanning once the SD card is inserted and create devices for each partition. 

Write to SD

# dd if=data of=/dev/block/mmcblk2 bs=1 seek=4096

Read from SD

# dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk2 of=data1 bs=1 count=1024 skip=4096