[PLUG-TALK] Android filesystem / permissions / ownership

[Tomas Kuchta]

Format the usb dongle on your android. Than just copy the stuff to it in
linux. that way android should be satisfied.

-tom

On Fri, Jun 4, 2021, 20:26 John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> I have a new Note 20 Ultra factory unlocked. On my laptop I have 64GB
> of MP3s that I want to copy to the phone. I bought a couple of USB
> drives that have two connectors, one USB3.0, and on the other end a
> Type C, capacity 128GB. My plan was to copy all the MP3s to the USB
> drive from the laptop using its USB3.0 plug, then plug the drive into
> the phone with the drive's Type C plug. But I had a problem because the
> drive came formatted NTFS and my laptop has ext4, and the two were not
> doing well together - random files failed o copy. To get around this I
> deleted the NTFS partition on the drive and then created an ext4
> partition instead (using Gparted), mounted it, and took possession with
> chown. The file transfer took about 15 minutes, but eventually it all
> worked and I have all the MP3s on the drive.
>
> I unmounted the drive from the laptop and removed it, then plugged it
> into the phone using the drive's Type C plug. When I looked at the
> phone's file manager it sees the USB drive as "USB Storage," but when I
> try to view it I get "Could not connect to USB storage."
>
> It might be the filesystem on the drive (ext4), or the permissions. Or
> something else that I haven't thought of.
>
> I need some clues. For starters, what filesystem type does Android use?
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