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. >> 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? > It created a single DOS partition and formatted the whole thing with exFAT It worked so that was fine with me. >> 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. Is using the FUSE the best way or should I change to something other method? It's rare but I try to keep it so I can access windoze type file systems. Sometimes I need to try to recover data from a failing hard drive or something from a windoze machine. So, when compiling a new kernel, I always include all the windoze type file systems as well. Actually, I enable almost all file systems if I've ever heard of them. Dale :-) :-)
