Re: [gentoo-user] m.2 nvme stick not what I was expecting at all.

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Tuesday, 25 February 2025 11:00:08 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote:
> Michael wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 25 February 2025 03:56:49 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote:
> > 
> > [snip ...]
> > 
> >> I just took the m.2 stick thingy and plugged it
> >> into my phone.  It popped up and said something about not being ready to
> >> access and did I want to format it.  Well, geeee, why would I want
> >> that????  ROFL  I clicked yes and a couple seconds later, it was done.
> > 
> > What filesystem format was applied by the phone to the m.2 stick?
> 
> I was poking around and it turned out to be exFAT.  It seems FUSE can be
> more than one thing, file system wise.  I read a little on FUSE but it
> was ages ago.
> 
> >> Then came the hard part, the real hard part.  I tried a dozen or more
> >> apps to backup stuff like pictures and such to the m.2 stick.  None of
> >> them would work right.  It was annoying as heck.  I might add, restore
> >> options are hard to find too.  Anyway, I found this thing called File
> >> Manager plus.  I used it to copy the picture directory and then paste it
> >> on the m.2 stick.  My Samsung S9 phone is likely USB 1, maybe 2.  Still,
> >> it was pretty fast.  Took 15 or 20 minutes.  I have quite a few pics.
> > 
> > Depending on the phone OS and its file structure a restorable 'backup' may
> > involve more than just the video, photo, music, or message files stored on
> > the phone.  It may also include and require some phone database with
> > associated metadata.  In addition, such backups may be encrypted.  As far
> > as I can tell backups of an iPhone stored on a computer, rather than
> > their iCloud service, may not include everything you would want to back
> > up, e.g. emails, ebooks, etc.  Unlike when you back up your iPhone to an
> > applemac, on a PC they expect you to use iTunes, which of course implies
> > you'd use MsWindows for the task.
> Yea, I suspect backing it up is easy enough, just make a copy.  Thing
> is, some phones might allow reading but writing may not be allowed so no
> matter the tool, one can't restore.  The biggest thing I wanted, media. 
> I'd like to copy my contact list to tho.  May try to find it later on. 

Have you looked at kconnect?  It may offer functionality you want to use:

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

You'll need to install an app on the phone.


> > Did the phone create a partition, or did it format the whole disk?
> > 
> > What is the filesystem it ended up with?
> 
> It created a single DOS partition and formatted the whole thing with
> exFAT  It worked so that was fine with me. 
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> Is using the FUSE the best way or should I change to something other
> method?

Until relatively recently MSWindows would only use FAT format for disks up to 
32GB.  Above this size it would use exFAT or NTFS.  Android devs may have 
opted for the exFAT format to allow compatibility with MSWindows OS, used by 
the majority of the PCs.

I expect Android would be capable of accessing any ext* fs, but perhaps 
ownership and access rights would introduce complications.  I don't have an 
Android phone available to experiment with, to know what fs would work over 
USB.

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