[PLUG] Android Filesystems

carl day carl0spamday at gmail.com
Mon Jul 12 04:29:09 UTC 2021


There are 3rd party apps on google-play
for external drives, BUT the reviews are not good for paragon

On 7/11/21, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
> I'm tearing my hair out.
>
> I have a 1TB USB 3.0 drive with two plugs, Type A on one end and Type C
> on the other. I bought it to simplify moving files to and from my
> laptop and my phone, which is Type C.
>
> I have been told that Android uses EXFAT and Linux can read/write EXFAT
> as well, since kernel 5.4, which I have. I formatted the drive on the
> laptop as EXFAT and copied some files to it. Then I removed the drive
> from the computer and plugged it into the phone, which announced that
> there was an 'unsupported USB drive' and it had to be formatted to be
> used. I formatted it on the phone, ignoring the warnings that all data
> would be erased. When the formatting was finished I removed the drive
> from the phone and put it back into the laptop, expecting that I would
> have to copy the files to it again, but when I looked at it all the
> files were still there.
>
> So then I put the drive back in the phone, but no files. All that I
> find are a root folder 'Android,' with sub-folders:
>
> 	Android
> 		data
> 			com.android.vending
> 				files
> 			com.google.android.apps.translate
> 				files
> 					olvp3
> 						v5
> 							02, 25, + more,
> 							all empty
> 					com.microsoft.skydrive
> 						cache
> 					com.samsung.android.aremojiedito
> 					com.samsung.android.messaging
> 						cache
> 						files
> 					com.sec.android.gallery.3d
> 						files
> 					con.sec.imsservice
> 						files
> 					org.kman.AquaMail (I installedthis)
> 						cache
> 						files
>
> All of the above folders are empty. My files appear when the drive is
> inserted into my laptop (Xubuntu 20.04.1), but Android can't see them.
>
> I thought that EXFAT might be great idea for USB drives, since
> everything can read it. No permissions, but that may be a good idea for
> USB drives. However, considering all the pain I have suffered trying to
> get it to work, I'd rather use ext4. I mean, at least it effin' *works*.
>
> I inserted an ext4 USB drive into the phone, and nada. The phone
> doesn't even see it. I have poked all over the net and many places say
> that Android is supposed to be able to read/write to ext4, but not in
> my experience.
>
> Maybe I need some utility on my phone to get it to read/write to ext4.
> Does anyone have any clues?
>



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