Guest drewstiff Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 I am currently running MCR and although I'm not an Android "n00b" I'm not exactly a Linux master so was wondering if someone could give me some pointers on how to use my USB thumb drive with my GN. I have the appropriate cable and the device shows up in dmesg as having attached successfully [sda]. So I kinda guessed that all I would have to do would be to mount it via CIFSmanager; so I put share path as /dev/sda and mount point was pre-filled as /mnt/cifs/sda which sounded perfectly reasonable. I left the username as guest and password and options both blank. When I try to mount the drive I then get the following error: "Mounting the share has failed with an error. mount: invalid argument" Anyone able to advise where I am going wrong?... Or have I completely got the wrong end of the stick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SilentMobius Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 CIFS is a file system for mounting windows file shares (also known as Samba) it is nothing to do with mounting usb drives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest drewstiff Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 CIFS is a file system for mounting windows file shares (also known as Samba) it is nothing to do with mounting usb drives Well that would explain where I am going wrong then! I knew CIFS was primarily for shares but I think that because the function was added to the ROM the same time as the USB host function I assumed it used CIFS to access the USB drive, hence enabling one enabled the other - but it appears this is a coincidence. Okay then, now that is sorted - if my USB drive is connected as sda, then how do I access it? Do I need to set the mount in fstab? If so, could I mount it as a subfolder of my "SDCARD" partition so that it is picked up by music apps etc.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest drewstiff Posted December 6, 2011 Report Share Posted December 6, 2011 Well that would explain where I am going wrong then! I knew CIFS was primarily for shares but I think that because the function was added to the ROM the same time as the USB host function I assumed it used CIFS to access the USB drive, hence enabling one enabled the other - but it appears this is a coincidence. Okay then, now that is sorted - if my USB drive is connected as sda, then how do I access it? Do I need to set the mount in fstab? If so, could I mount it as a subfolder of my "SDCARD" partition so that it is picked up by music apps etc.? For anyone else who wasn't sure how to mount a usb drive, I was making it far more complicated than it needed to be and the following command will mount the usb device within a folder called "usbstick" on the sdcard: mount -t vfat /dev/block/sda1 /sdcard/usbstick Problem solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gandalf027 Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 For anyone else who wasn't sure how to mount a usb drive, I was making it far more complicated than it needed to be and the following command will mount the usb device within a folder called "usbstick" on the sdcard: mount -t vfat /dev/block/sda1 /sdcard/usbstick Problem solved. Hey, Can you give me some pointers to how can i do this? I know a bit of linux and i can use a termnal. I have a USB OTG cable that works very well, at least in a SGS2. But in the SGS2 the pendrive (2GB Fat) is mounted auto. In this one i cannot see it, it only appears in /d/usb devices file ... is there a way i can mount this? Do i need to have themtp disabled or the usb debug on/off? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest drewstiff Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 Hey, Can you give me some pointers to how can i do this? I know a bit of linux and i can use a termnal. I have a USB OTG cable that works very well, at least in a SGS2. But in the SGS2 the pendrive (2GB Fat) is mounted auto. In this one i cannot see it, it only appears in /d/usb devices file ... is there a way i can mount this? Do i need to have themtp disabled or the usb debug on/off? Thanks I had OS Monitor app install so kept an eye on dmesg through that and saw that the usb stick was detected as [sda], then used the command I mention above (as su) in terminal in order to mount the drive. Then obviously you need to umount after. If you are having problems they I might not be the best source of technical support for this particular issue but will do my best to help... I have not had to disable MTP and I have USB debugging on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gandalf027 Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 I had OS Monitor app install so kept an eye on dmesg through that and saw that the usb stick was detected as [sda], then used the command I mention above (as su) in terminal in order to mount the drive. Then obviously you need to umount after. If you are having problems they I might not be the best source of technical support for this particular issue but will do my best to help... I have not had to disable MTP and I have USB debugging on. Thanks, i will install os monitor and see if i can figure it out. I'll give feedback later :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tibow Posted December 19, 2011 Report Share Posted December 19, 2011 For anyone else who wasn't sure how to mount a usb drive, I was making it far more complicated than it needed to be and the following command will mount the usb device within a folder called "usbstick" on the sdcard: mount -t vfat /dev/block/sda1 /sdcard/usbstick Problem solved. Hello, tried that in terminal emulator, only got a mount : not such file or directory, don't really know what I'm doing wrong, kinda noob with command lines and stuff ^^ Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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