Find location of a removable SD card

Question

Is there an universal way to find the location of an external SD card?

Please, do not be confused with External Storage.

Environment.getExternalStorage

Answer 1

Like Richard I also use /proc/mounts file to get the list of available storage options

public class StorageUtils {

    private static final String TAG = "StorageUtils";

    public static class StorageInfo {

        public final String path;
        public final boolean internal;
        public final boolean readonly;
        public final int display_number;

        StorageInfo(String path, boolean internal, boolean readonly, int display_number) {
            this.path = path;
            this.internal = internal;
            this.readonly = readonly;
            this.display_number = display_number;
        }

        public String getDisplayName() {
            StringBuilder res = new StringBuilder();
            if (internal) {
                res.append("Internal SD card");
            } else if (display_number > 1) {
                res.append("SD card " + display_number);
            } else {
                res.append("SD card");
            }
            if (readonly) {
                res.append(" (Read only)");
            }
            return res.toString();
        }
    }

    public static List getStorageList() {

        List list = new ArrayList();
        String def_path = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getPath();
        boolean def_path_internal = !Environment.isExternalStorageRemovable();
        String def_path_state = Environment.getExternalStorageState();
        boolean def_path_available = def_path_state.equals(Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)
                                    || def_path_state.equals(Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED_READ_ONLY);
        boolean def_path_readonly = Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals(Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED_READ_ONLY);
        BufferedReader buf_reader = null;
        try {
            HashSet paths = new HashSet();
            buf_reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("/proc/mounts"));
            String line;
            int cur_display_number = 1;
            Log.d(TAG, "/proc/mounts");
            while ((line = buf_reader.readLine()) != null) {
                Log.d(TAG, line);
                if (line.contains("vfat") || line.contains("/mnt")) {
                    StringTokenizer tokens = new StringTokenizer(line, " ");
                    String unused = tokens.nextToken(); //device
                    String mount_point = tokens.nextToken(); //mount point
                    if (paths.contains(mount_point)) {
                        continue;
                    }
                    unused = tokens.nextToken(); //file system
                    List flags = Arrays.asList(tokens.nextToken().split(",")); //flags
                    boolean readonly = flags.contains("ro");

                    if (mount_point.equals(def_path)) {
                        paths.add(def_path);
                        list.add(0, new StorageInfo(def_path, def_path_internal, readonly, -1));
                    } else if (line.contains("/dev/block/vold")) {
                        if (!line.contains("/mnt/secure")
                            && !line.contains("/mnt/asec")
                            && !line.contains("/mnt/obb")
                            && !line.contains("/dev/mapper")
                            && !line.contains("tmpfs")) {
                            paths.add(mount_point);
                            list.add(new StorageInfo(mount_point, false, readonly, cur_display_number++));
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

            if (!paths.contains(def_path) && def_path_available) {
                list.add(0, new StorageInfo(def_path, def_path_internal, def_path_readonly, -1));
            }

        } catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            if (buf_reader != null) {
                try {
                    buf_reader.close();
                } catch (IOException ex) {}
            }
        }
        return list;
    }    
}