On Sat 08 Jul 2017 12:38:38 NZST +1200, Peter Simmonds wrote: > Obviously the first thing to do was $crew microsoft and format it as ext2.
Superbly excellent idea. Been there, done that. That equally superbly braindead vfat (Billy has patents on that shite, probably one of the reasons he's screwed all the android companies) doesn't even store time stamps properly (2s granularity is the easiest to deal with, being too dumb for daylight saving or any time zone is impossible to work around - bye bye syncing files between PC and phone with rsync (the only thing really worth looking at). > What would be involved in getting an android phone to actually > recognize an ext2 formatted card? It only at present recognizes it > as a "Blank" card. I am unsure it would ever work. I gave up at this point. Obviously android has ext2 fs drivers, and obviously isn't deploying them on the sd card. There is a lot of non-unix scullduggery going on in android around user management (and everywhere else). E.g. there are a large number of filesystems mounted on directories of the sd card - one per app. Doing this on stoneage Microsoft vfat crapola might just work better than doing it on ext2. Also, ext2 is a filesystem made for spinning platters, not flash memory! But if it's possible somehow I'm also keen to hear. All my syncing depends on rsync. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
