Re:Making Linux and Android Get Along
by ambrop7 on Monday May 20, 2013 @11:45AM
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Andoroid 4.1 supports USB mass storage, at least on the devices I've used. I think it does have to be enabled in the settings though.
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Android 4.x supports it, but I think the phone hardware has to also support it somehow. As far as I know there is no way to get a galaxy nexus or a nexus 7 into usb mass storage mode.
Re:Making Linux and Android Get Along
by ianburrell on Monday May 20, 2013 @01:42PM
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The issue is that new devices don't have filesystems that can be exported over USB mass storage. Instead of having a small data partition and big FAT32 external storage partition, they have a single bigger data partition with a media storage directory.
The data partition is ext4, so can't be mounted by most operating systems. It is also shared between apps, app data, and media storage so it can't be exported while in use.
Re:Making Linux and Android Get Along
by archangel_one on Monday May 20, 2013 @01:20PM
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Mass storage doesn't work on a device like the Galaxy Nexus that emulates the "SD card" on its internal storage, because it requires making the blocks of the underlying device available to the host OS.
IMO it's worth it to avoid that awful old chestnut where you'd run out of internal space with heaps left on the card, but unfortunately MTP isn't quite as convenient :(