[Q] What does /mnt stand for? - Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

What does /mnt stand for?
When I look at the "Files" folder on my archos, all the subfolders are from the path, lets say, /mnt/Andriod..etc Does this mean this is the path for the Internal Storage? If so, what is the path for system storage, since I am running low on space and would like to delete some useless downloads that probably did not fully erase themselves. Thank you!

/mnt stands for 'mount point'. In the Unix tradition (and LSB standards) it's a directory where removable file systems are mounted to the tree. Archos is not entirely correct in using /mnt for everything else but /mnt/data, as all others are not removable file systems.

Thank you for your reply! Does that mean that the files under the /mnt path is part of the internal storage and works a bit like My Documents for computers? And all the rest are files stored in the system storage and is the one that occupies space where the apps are installed?

AranHei said:
Thank you for your reply! Does that mean that the files under the /mnt path is part of the internal storage and works a bit like My Documents for computers? And all the rest are files stored in the system storage and is the one that occupies space where the apps are installed?
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This is not completely true. It's very simplified point of view.

mnt stands for mount
I guess mnt stands for MouNT external directory such as sd or pc memory

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Where to find SD card files

Hi,
I need to factory reset my phone and have used App List Backup to genereate the list of apps to be restored. However, I cannot find the file and the sdcard folder on my phone is empty.
Anyone able to help me out here? I think I've backed up everything else, but I'd really like to get this file out just in case...
Cheers!
Once you mount your phone, you'll see two mounted drives. The folder 'External_SD' is empty on the 'internal mount'. Select the other drive to see the data.
Have you checked the folder 'data' or 'android'?
Are you rooted? My external SD is always visible in /mnt/emmc Internal is visible as /mnt/sdcard
Longun said:
Are you rooted? My external SD is always visible in /mnt/emmc Internal is visible as /mnt/sdcard
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Thanks, but it wasn't there. Managed to get the files by removing the sd card and running it again. It then created a folder on the root of the main storage

[Q] sd card and /sdcard location?

I'd noticed that newer GB HTC devices seem to have moved /sdcard from the
real sd card slot to the internal memory left over after system related partitions
were allocated.
I wondered if the Rezound suffers from this change too? On my Wi Fi Flyer
I have to keep syncing the data files for Kindle and Nook apps as they think
/sdcard is the actual sd card.
I think the move was done to accommodate HC/ICS's notion of /sdcard
being a virtual partition (not a fat32 real partition, to avoid having to license
Fat32 from M$). As I understood it, HC and ICS use a FUSE re-director mount
to allow the internal /sdcard space to be a directory in a ext? file system that houses
/data, (working around the Incredible's issue of no app data space and
6gb of empty /media space). Since they don't use fat32 they can't use
USB Mass Storage, so another approach was used.
Anyway since both the Kindle and Nook app don't allow a real path
for where to look for their data, on the Flyer I have to sync the sub-directory's
from /sdcard2 to /sdcard so the apps can find them.
Does Rezound do this too?
The Rezounds physical SD cards mounts as /SD Card2
So same issue then? How do others handle Kindle and Nook apps on /sdcard2
when the apps look at /sdcard?

Which path is true internal sd card?

This gonna sound kind of odd, but with copying stuff over from my S3 and using the crappy mtp to get stuff on the device I'm no longer sure.
Which patch is the 'true' internal sdcard?
Is is the SD card in the root folder or the mnt/sdcard?
The real mount point is /mnt/sdcard and there is a symbolic link at /sdcard. It's basically two ways of getting to the same thing, but when your internal sdcard is mounted it uses the /mnt/sdcard path.
Its TwiX said:
The real mount point is /mnt/sdcard and there is a symbolic link at /sdcard. It's basically two ways of getting to the same thing, but when your internal sdcard is mounted it uses the /mnt/sdcard path.
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that explains my confusion.
thanks

Storage not mounted properly.

Hi everyone.
After some snafu while trying to update Gapps to the latest package, which wrecked my phone ;
I re-flashed the ROM (CM11.0 from Maclaw's), doing full wipe of dalvik/cache/data/system. I reinstalled the previously working Gapps package.
Everything is working fine, but the way the storages are mounted is not correct. For instance, Gallery won't display pictures from the external sdcard.
Yet, if I use file manager, I can access it, and all my personal files are still there. When connecting to the PC, internal storage takes me to the actual internal storage being used by the phone but external storage appears empty.
/sdcard points to /storage/emulated/legacy it contains my old files from before flashing anew.
tree of /storage :
/storage
---/emulated
------/0 <-- this seems to be the same folder as legacy
------/clockworkmod <-- never mind, it's just there, empty. A remnant of my previous recovery
------/legacy
------/obb <-- empty
---/sdcard0 <-- redirects to /storage/emulated/legacy
---/sdcard1 <-- external sdcard
I hope I'm being clear enough. Basically, external sdcard doesn't seem to get mounted at a correct place which would allow apps to read from it.
While in recovery, if I go to the file manager,
external sd card is mounted in /external_sd
/sdcard is the internal storage
/data/media is the same as /storage/emulated as before. ./0 is populated, ./legacy is not.
So, basically, I should find a way to mount the external card to /data/media right?
Edit : I kept trying stuff. I created a folder from my PC on the apparently empty sd card, and put a photo in it. It displays in the gallery, and the folder is at the root of the sd card, just like every other folder that are not detected by either my phone and PC. The hell is that about?

Folder not mounting

My galaxy s5 started showing memory full when all storage programs said there was about 5 gb left.
I downloaded foldermount and it said it found the issue so it was going to repair it.
Well after I rebooted. The internal sd card(phone memory) is not mounting.
When connected to the PC, it shows 128mb.
on ES FIle explorer SDCARD shows "???" and when I attempt to open it ask what file I want to open it with, but with the program storage analyzer it finds the "data" folder just fine and lists all the files and folders within it.
In the phone settings options, it can show the amount of memory being used along with the media, mp3, apps, so the Folder is still there along with all the info, it is simply not mounting properly?
Thank you.
UPDATE: I found the path of where all my files are at, but the phone is not mounting it as the internal storage?
It is located at data/media/0 and mnt/sdcard0 or mnt/sdcard1 are missing.
* Aside from Phone being rooted, there were no other modifications
* Phone is running on original OS(as opposed to roms or such)
*There is not an external sd card in the phone
Folder mount will not do anything for you really without an SD card. After you use it to clear space you need to unmount all the folder it mounted to view what is actually in the folders. If not it will show the folder that it is linked to and look like it never worked. Changing your system data to SD data in your case keeps it in internal memory and does not free it up. You need to use folder mount with a SD card for it to help you. Saved me over 500Mb with it on my s5
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Folder mount will not do anything for you really without an SD card. After you use it to clear space you need to unmount all the folder it mounted to view what is actually in the folders. If not it will show the folder that it is linked to and look like it never worked. Changing your system data to SD data in your case keeps it in internal memory and does not free it up. You need to use folder mount with a SD card for it to help you. Saved me over 500Mb with it on my s5
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Sorry, long story short,
My phone mnt/sdcard and sdcard links are no longer there. Is there a way to recreate the links? Certain apps are still able to function because they are using the actual link, device/media/ect, ect, /0/ folders as opposed to mnt/sdcard/
I saw on another forum that
su
echo mkdir /storage/sdcard0 > /data/local/userinit.sh
chmod 700 /data/local/userinit.sh
reboot
May help, but not sure if it is only for roms and not for original OS.
On another forum there was talk about recreating a syslink?
Solved:
Simply went to "system/bin" and erased the "sdcard" file and renamed the file "sdcard.backup" to "sdcard". Rebooted and it solved the issue.

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