[EXE] Static Linux binaries for ARM/Android (Cryptsetup, EncFS, F2FS-Tools, Testdisk, PhotoRec,..)

Minimum CPU: ARMv7/vfpv3-d16. Compiled against musl-libc/Android Kernel 3.4. Binaries are static, bionic/libc independent and should run on Android, TWRP, emulator or any other compatible ARM device. Musl is patched (info)(info2)(patch file: patch -p0 -u -b -i musl-android-smp.patch) to iterate CPU cores by /proc/stat instead of _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF/sched_getaffinity to prevent false detection due to ARM cpu core powersaving (permanently turning cores on/off). This should report CPU cores more reliably to multithreading apps.

Example instructions how to build EncFS can be found here.
Some Cryptsetup compile recipes are here.

Changelog:
20240421 - mmc-utils updated. Thx to @xenosaur
20240409 - cryptsetup v2.7.2 updated. Thx to @misterhsp
20240322 - fscrypt v0.3.5 updated. Thx to @misterhsp
20240321 - gptfdisk v1.0.10 updated. Thx to @xenosaur
20240311 - veracrypt v1.26.7 updated. Thx to @misterhsp
20240308 - cryptsetup v2.7.1 updated. Thx to @misterhsp
20240126 - cryptsetup v2.7.0 updated. Thx to @misterhsp
20230812 - 7z-std v23.01 Thx to @xenosaur
20230613 - gocryptfs v2.4.0 Thx to @misterhsp
20230504 - fscrypt v0.3.4 Thx to @misterhsp
20230307 - gocryptfs v2.3.1. Thx to @misterhsp
20230215 - cryptsetup v2.6.1 updated. Thx to @misterhsp
20221213 - f2fs tools v1.15.0 fixed (uuid.h missing)
20221129 - cryptsetup v2.6.0 updated. Thx to @misterhsp
20220924 - fdisk v2.38.1 and file v5.43 added
20220922 - veracrypt v1.25.9 updated
20220913 - gocryptfs v2.3 updated. Thx to @misterhsp
20220913 - htop v3.2.1 added
20220910 - rsync v3.2.6 updated

Older:

Data recovery tools:
- PhotoRec 7.2 - PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted.
- Testdisk 7.2 - Recover lost partitions and partition tables. For external sdcards. Never use it on internal mmc unless you know what you're doing.
- ext4magic 0.3.2 (with supplementary gnu date binary that can handle relative time like 'date -d "-20minutes" +%s')
- fidentity - A little utility sharing PhotoRec signature database. It identifies the type of data contained in a file and reports the extension as seen by PhotoRec.
- debugfs - Might be helpful on ext2 systems or other stuff.
- strace 4.20 - For debugging. Mainly to catch syslog messages (as Android has no traditional /dev/log buffer).
- strace 5.6 - For aarch64.
- ddrescue v1.25 - Data recovery tool for block devices with errors.

Compression tools:
p7zip v17.01 (fork) - (Download) A new p7zip fork with additional codecs and improvements
pixz - Parallel, indexed xz compressor
xz - Multicore aware version of xz/lzma (use --thread=0)
tar v1.32 - Tar provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation. Download below. More builds from @mirfatif here.
fxz - (Download) FXZ Utils is a fork of XZ Utils. It adds a multi-threaded radix match finder and optimized encoder.

Misc:
- hexcurse v1.60.0 - Hexcurse is a curses-base hex editing utility that can open, edit, and save files, editing both the hexadecimal and decimal values. 'ncurses' ui layout depends on TERM env variable. Change temporary with eg. 'TERM=xterm-256color hexcurse <file>'. See /system/etc/terminfo for possible terminals (xterm-256color, linux..).
- nethogs v0.8.5 - ncurse/nettop-like per-app separated speedmeter and traffic counter supporting high refresh rate. Try 'nethogs -d0' (speedmeter) or 'nethogs -v1' (traffic counter).
- rsync v3.2.3 - rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. (--with-rsyncd-conf=/data/etc/rsyncd.conf)
- smbnetfs v0.6.1 - SMBNetFS is a Linux/FreeBSD filesystem that allow you to use samba/microsoft network in the same manner as the network neighborhood in Microsoft Windows. More info see below.
- progress v0.14 - Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd, ... (formerly known as cv). Download here.
- archivemount (20180801) - A fuse filesystem for mounting archives in formats supported by libarchive. Download here.
- squashfuse v0.1.103 - FUSE filesystem to mount squashfs archives Download here.
- FuseISO - FuseISO is a FUSE module to mount ISO filesystem images (.iso, .nrg, .bin, .mdf and .img files). It currently support plain ISO9660 Level 1 and 2, Rock Ridge, Joliet, and zisofs. Download here.
- HSTR v2.2.0 - HSTR (HiSToRy) is a command line utility that brings improved Bash/zsh command completion from the history. It aims to make completion easier and more efficient than Ctrl-r. (If history is empty try setting HISTFILE in /system/etc/bash/bashrc e.g. export HISTFILE=/data/.bash_history).
- GNU screen, tmux - Thanks to @mirfatif.
- dislocker, ntfs-3g, mount.exfat-fuse - Thanks to @mirfatif.
- f2fs-tools - Thanks to @mirfatif. Update: v1.14.0 here.
- parted v3.3 - GNU Parted (the name being the conjunction of the two words PARTition and EDitor) is a free partition editor, used for creating and deleting partitions. Note: It might be useful to partition external sdcards (e.g. to limit adoptable storage). I do not recommend to use it on internal memory. It might brick your phone.
- Several tools compiled by @Borovets

Crypttools:
(These crypttools are mostly frontend tools for the main backend that resides in the kernel. If your kernel hasn't been configured accordingly at compile time you might not be able to use all features.)
Cryptsetup v2.3.5 - (Download) Cryptsetup is an utility used to conveniently setup disk encryption based on DMCrypt kernel module. These include plain dm-crypt volumes, LUKS volumes, loop-AES and TrueCrypt (including VeraCrypt extension) format.
eCryptfs-utils v111 - Frontend tools for the enterprise cryptographic filesystem for Linux. That's what Android/Google use for encryption. It's file-based (no container) and mounting can be automated by Termux widget. Needs shared libraries but is still portable. See notes below.
EncFS v1.9.5 - EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs in userspace, using the FUSE library for the filesystem interface.
gocryptfs - An encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go. Download here. Thanks to @mirfatif.
VeraCrypt - VeraCrypt is a free open source disk encryption software. Download here. Thanks to @mirfatif.
fscrypt 0.2.7 - (Download) fscrypt is a high-level tool for the management of Linux filesystem encryption. Needs at least kernel 4.1.

Crypttools info:

SMBNetFS info:

Compression tools added.
Next are crypttools (ecryptfs-utils, cryptsetup).

Ecryptfs-simple is not POSIX compliant. It relies on an argv interface (to parse command-line parameters) that is a GNU extension that musl doesn't support.
The original eCryptFS is simple enough anyway (and its the upstream project). I will provide a quickstart example and a one button GUI controlled solution (Termux widget) to handle it.

I only have gifsicle. The other ones are too complex for my setup atm.

Do you use them directly on your phone for web postings or something? What's your use case to not prefer a desktop system for this?

Here it is.

I've waited for the major update of cryptsetup. Its out now indeed. I should get it up this week.

Crypttools and quickstart tutorials added.

buengeut said:

touch: /sdcard/pics/test: Permission denied

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What are your permissions?

How does your mount look like?

Is /sdcard linked?

What Android version and kernel do you have?

What about the permissions of /data/media/0 folders? That's the most important part.

If your sdcard is not at /data/media/0 you probably don't have a multiuser environment (older phone?) and /mnt/sdcard is probably a real partition. This is early Kitkat partition layout (/sdcard and /data have separate partitions). On later systems both are on /data partition and /sdcard is abstracted by a FUSE file system that would automatically set the proper permissions whenever you write something to it (even as root).

In case you are on an old layout you would need to set proper permissions to /sdcard/pics and /sdcard/efs yourself. Just take a look at the other folders with 'ls -l /mnt/sdcard' and set accordingly. You would also need to change /data/media/0 to /mnt/sdcard in the script.

What do you get with this?

What phone is it? Kernel 3.18 doesn't sound all too old.

Edit: Another theory is your internal sdcard is scardfs or something. If so, it might break "stacking" folders (mount over). Try to use /data/pics and /data/efs/pics as a test.