[PLUG-TALK] Android filesystem / permissions / ownership

TomasK tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com
Sat Jun 5 01:44:44 UTC 2021


1. You do not need to umount on Adgoid - unless you mounted it.
2. just create a directory, copy a few files to it and try if you can
access it on the phone.
3. finish the whole file dorde.

-T

On Fri, 2021-06-04 at 18:19 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 17:57:33 -0700
> John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> dijo:
> 
> > That sounds like a good idea. Now the only problem is figuring out
> > how
> > to format the drive while it's plugged into the Android phone. No
> > terminal. And if I had a terminal, not sure if Linux commands would
> > work. I could try installing an app, if I knew what to look for.
> 
> Wait, I may have figured it out!
> 
> On the phone I went into Settings, then Storage, then Advanced, and
> the
> phone announced that the USB drive couldn't be used until it was set
> up. There was an option to set it up, so I did so. It said
> 'formatting,' and when it finished it appeared to be done. I couldn't
> figure out how to unmount it, so I just shut the phone down.
> 
> When I plugged the drive into my laptop it was recognized, auto-
> mounted,
> and the GUI file manager popped up a window.
> 
> It looks like my problem is solved, except that the 'formatting'
> added
> a whole bunch of garbage. Initially all you see is a folder
> 'Android,'
> and when you open it there is another folder 'data,' and in that
> folder
> are numerous folders:
> 
> com.google.android.apps.translate
> com.microsoft.skydrive
> com.samsung.android.app.spage
> com.samsung.android.aremojieditor
> com.sec.android.gallery3d
> com.touchtype.swiftkey
> 
> Plus a file of 0 bytes '.nomedia.' Most of the folders contain only
> another folder 'cache' which is empty, except a couple which are
> populated with folders up to six levels deep, each folder empty.
> 
> Now all I need to do is figure out which folder to put my MP3s in.
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