Just wondering if anyone thought of or found a way to symlink the sdcard-ext to a folder in the internal memory......
I use miren for my browser but currently it only allows me to choose my download directory to be something inside of /sdcard. Since I have a 32gb sdcard, i'd like to maybe create a shortcut to sdcard-ext in /sdcard......
Edit:
Just found out, fat and fat32 doesn't support symbolic links in that sort of way....****ty
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Hey guys!
I've searched through the forum, and Google, but I've not found anything of help
Is there any setting, any hack or customization of any kind, to make Winamp store the WiFi sync songs to a custom folder? It's putting them on the phone right now, but I'd like them on the External SD card.
Thanks for your help!
+1 on this.
Wifi Sync only syncs data to /sdcard/music folder no matter what we do...
In Samsung Galaxy SL (I9003), /sdcard is internal sdcard and /sd (~/external_sd) is external sd.
I tried to create a symlink to ~/external_sd/Music in /sdcard/music using terminal emulator so that /sdcard/music points to ~/external_sd/Music (or /sd/Music)
But it says operation not permitted.
After a bit of research, it was clear why it was not allowing.
Our external sd card is fat32 filesystem and its not possible to create symlinks on that filesystem.
I was thinking why do we need external sd to be fat32, wasnt it just fine to use ext3 or some other linux friendly file system?
And maybe change fstab to mount it as ext3. smthing like that?
Just checking possiblity.
This is on CM7 latest nightly. Also on stock. I can see all my external SD's contents in /mnt/emmc and my internal sd in /mnt/sdcard.
Music player sees all my music on the Micro SD; however, because it's not linked to internal some how I cannot get Moboplayer to see contents of my micro.
Hopefully it's understandable
So how do I get my micro sd linked to /sdcard? Symlink?
Thanks very much
Edit: got Moboplayer to scan my /mnt/emmc folder, but preferably I'd still like to create a symlink in /sdcard. Anyone explain?
Hey all,
I added a 32GB micro SD card to my view and (being a Windoz guy), I don't understand why it shows up under /mnt/sdcard/ as ext-sd. Is there a way to have it mount so that it is under /mnt/ext-sd? I guess I just don't understand how Android manages these things. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that, when opening any file manager, it defaults the view to /mnt/sdcard/ as a starting place to browse files. Does anyone else find this odd? Or is it just me?
deejayspinz said:
Hey all,
I added a 32GB micro SD card to my view and (being a Windoz guy), I don't understand why it shows up under /mnt/sdcard/ as ext-sd. Is there a way to have it mount so that it is under /mnt/ext-sd? I guess I just don't understand how Android manages these things. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that, when opening any file manager, it defaults the view to /mnt/sdcard/ as a starting place to browse files. Does anyone else find this odd? Or is it just me?
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If you use Astro you can set the home directory to ext_sd in the preference tab.
In my root directory, I have the following folders listed: mnt, sdcard, sdcard2. If I expand mnt, I have another sdcard folder. If I then expand mnt/sdcard, I have a folder called ext_sd which as far as I can tell is just a duplication of the sdcard2 folder from the root directory in which I started. Is this standard folder/file structure, or have I screwed something up somehow. For some reason, I am unable to wipe internal storage from within TWRP, and I suspect that the circular folder layout has something to do with it. Can someone dumb this down a shade for me?
That is the correct structure.
/sdcard is the same as /mnt/sdcard
/sdcard2 is the same as /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd or /sdcard/ext_sd
You are probably right about not being able to wipe internal storage. Cause if you wipe /sdcard then it would also wipe /sdcard/ext_sd
Hi guys!
I have android 4.1.1 and the file system is such that there's no link to external SD card from internal SD. Before there was external_sd folder link, now it's not there anymore. Currently my internal memory is located at /storage/sdcard0 and my external card at /storage/extSdCard. The question is: how do I a create a link within /storage/sdcard0 to point to my external card?
What I tried to do. I created a folder /storage/sdcard0/LinkToExternalSD. Then I downloaded Android Terminal Emulator and tried the following command:
mount -o bind /storage/extSdCard /storage/sdcard0/LinkToExternalSD
Unfortunately, it said Operation not permitted. I also cannot do a link with Root Explorer. Root is installed. Busybox is installed. File system on external SD card is exFAT.
Could you please help me with this? It there an easy way to do it? Maybe in some file manager other than Root Explorer?
Thank you!