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 03:56:49 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote:

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> 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?


> 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.


> For those interested, this is the mount info, which should include file
> system info. 
> 
> 
> /dev/sdk1 on /run/media/dale/4730-DF8F type fuseblk

Did the phone create a partition, or did it format the whole disk?

What is the filesystem it ended up with?


> If I recall correctly, fuse thingy is for NTFS.  I think anyway.

FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) is a framework deployed by the Linux kernel to 
expose a virtual filesystem for userspace interaction.  FUSE was used with 
ntfs-3g and exFAT, among many other filesystems, before NTFS and exFAT were 
included in the Linux kernel.

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