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Re: format on SD card?

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On 31/10/2018 20.52, nospam wrote:
> In article <eli$1810311523@qaz.wtf>, Eli the Bearded
> <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
> 
>> I put an SD card into one of my android devices (6.0) and let the
>> system format it as native or whatever the system calls it. This
>> worked fine. 
> 
> adoptable.
> 
>> Later I shut the device down, pulled the SD card out and tried to
>> mount it on Linux. Surprise, the format isn't recognized out of the
>> box and 'file -s' isn't giving me hints about the filesystem type.
>> Can I mount this? What should I be installing?
> 
> tl;dr - no.
> 
> <https://www.androidauthority.com/high-capacity-microsd-cards-android-ga
> ry-explains-690710/>
>   Android 6.0 Marshmallow introduced the idea of adopting external
>   storage so that it acts like internal storage. When a microSD card is
>   adopted, it is formatted and encrypted to only work with that device.
>   Now you can safely store both apps and private data on the card. 
> 
> <https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/137855/how-does-the-format-
> as-internal-storage-feature-work-in-android-6-0>
>   If you use this feature, your external SD card is replacing your
>   internal storage. In the process, it will be encrypted. You no longer
>   can "simply unmount" the card to read it in any other device
>   (including a card reader attached to your PC), as in that case the
>   file system would be unreadable in the latter (due to encryption ­
>   which is done "for security", so a thief cannot simply remove the
>   card to circumvent your device's lock screen and get straight to your
>   data).

Interesting.

Let me see if I understand right.

If it is "adoptable" the total space available is the sum of the
internal and external spaces, but in the second type the external card
replaces the internal - I hope that the content of the internal gets
copied first to the external, so that apps will work?

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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format on SD card? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2018-10-31 19:34 +0000
  Re: format on SD card? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-10-31 15:52 -0400
    Re: format on SD card? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2018-10-31 20:51 +0000
      Re: format on SD card? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-10-31 16:59 -0400
        Re: format on SD card? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-10-31 22:53 +0100
    Re: format on SD card? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-10-31 22:59 +0100
  Re: format on SD card? "NY" <me@privacy.net> - 2018-10-31 19:52 +0000
    Re: format on SD card? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-10-31 22:56 +0100

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