[PLUG-TALK] Android filesystem / permissions / ownership

[Denis Heidtmann]

maybe copy one of the files that did not copy from the command line and see
if you get any illuminating messages.
-Denis

On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 8:15 PM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 22:30:50 -0400
> Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com> dijo:
>
> >So, it seems to be working. Except for the file names.
> >
> >I do not think I can be of any further help to you remotely, beside
> >this advice: spaces in the file names are not a good idea.
> >
> >That is most likely your problem + some fat file naming rules.
>
> It can't be the file names and/or the spaces in them.
>
> 1) exFAT is the latest incarnation of FAT32, and FAT32 could handle
> spaces in filenames.
>
> 2) Samsung (and all the rest) would have customers screaming at them if
> they sold a phone that couldn't handle filenames with spaces.
>
> 3) My phone already has files with spaces in the filenames. It came
> that way.
>
> 4) *All* of my MP3 files have spaces in the filenames - ALL of them -
> and 35 of them copied just fine.
>
> 5) It also can't be permissions or ownership because exFAT doesn't do
> those things, same as FAT and FAT32.
>
> I read that Android is supposed to work with ext3 and ext4, but when my
> drive was formatted ext4 it couldn't read it.
>
> Linux can read/write exFAT only since kernel 5.4, and that is where I
> am. There is possibly a bug that hasn't been caught yet. But I also had
> this problem when the drive was NTFS, and Linux support for that has
> been around for longer.
>
> At this point I think the answer lies in figuring out why 35 of 209 of
> my MP3s copied fine and the remainder did not. But that should wait for
> tomorrow when my brain is working better.
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