[Solved] Mounting ext. sdcard folders to int. sdcard

[obicom]

Not directly with my script but it is possible to use with the /Android/data/... folder too. I explained this way to diddy64 in this thread, how it could work. He tried it and if I remember right, it was successful.

Take a look ...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22749832#post22749832

 

[CypherWolf]

i can't get this to work, do I have to format the SDcard from my computer or what?

 

[obicom]

No, normally you did not need to format the sdcard.
With the few information nobody will be able to help or support you.
Let us know what works and what didn't work ...
What did you try yet? Did normal mount work? Did init.d support work?

 

[CypherWolf]

Yes the init.d support works and I can see the music files from my external SD card in my player and i can play them. but music in my internal storage are now missing. I was under the impression that this adds additional storage to my tablet for music, video, and photos. but it just replace my internal music/video/pictures folder with the one from the external SDcard. is this how it's suppose to be? how does this actually work? does it actually add extra storage via external SDcard?

 

[Chaotnix]

The directories from the sdcard are bound to the directories in internal memory. So the contents of the directories in internal memory are not visible. That is normal in Linux.
If you want to see the files from internal memory and sdcard, create folders with name "SD2" in all three directories in internal memory. And change the script to the following:

mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2/Music /mnt/sdcard/Music/SD2
mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2/VIDEO /mnt/sdcard/VIDEO/SD2
mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2/Pictures /mnt/sdcard/Pictures/SD2

With this, the files from sdcard are visible in the SD2 subfolders of the correspondending directories in internal memory.

Or change script to:

mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2 /mnt/sdcard/transferred

So all files and directories from sdcard are visible in the transferred folder in internal memory.


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[TheHurf]

The directories from the sdcard are bound to the directories in internal memory. So the contents of the directories in internal memory are not visible. That is normal in Linux.
If you want to see the files from internal memory and sdcard, create folders with name "SD2" in all three directories in internal memory. And change the script to the following:

mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2/Music /mnt/sdcard/Music/SD2
mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2/VIDEO /mnt/sdcard/VIDEO/SD2
mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2/Pictures /mnt/sdcard/Pictures/SD2

With this, the files from sdcard are visible in the SD2 subfolders of the correspondending directories in internal memory.

Or change script to:

mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2 /mnt/sdcard/transferred

So all files and directories from sdcard are visible in the transferred folder in internal memory.


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Dude, thanks for the above post. Never occurred to me to streamline the command like that.

Folks, can confirm mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2 /mnt/sdcard/transferred works an absolute charm (tested with music only, for now!) for mounting the external card AND being able to see content on the internal memory!

32GB SD card here I come!

 

[05081983]

Dude, thanks for the above post. Never occurred to me to streamline the command like that.

Folks, can confirm mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2 /mnt/sdcard/transferred works an absolute charm (tested with music only, for now!) for mounting the external card AND being able to see content on the internal memory!

32GB SD card here I come!

Can you please tell me what is the sleep time you mentioned in init.d script.
I am tired of trying different values but nothing seems to work.
If somebody can help me here please

 

[rimsilva]

Can you please tell me what is the sleep time you mentioned in init.d script.
I am tired of trying different values but nothing seems to work.
If somebody can help me here please

I'm with the same problem too..

additionally I'm getting error message "android.process.media has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again" at start up and times to times.

Can someone share his/her script?

 

[TheHurf]

The script I listed above works fine without putting in any of the sleep bits. I used Scripter, from the market place, dumped the script in there, Bob's your uncle!

 

[05081983]

The script I listed above works fine without putting in any of the sleep bits. I used Scripter, from the market place, dumped the script in there, Bob's your uncle!

So your Script contained only one line????

Were you able to see all your songs stored on external SD in Sony Music Player, or you downloaded an app from market for it???

 

[obicom]

@TheHurf:
With a tool like Scripter it works without a sleep time ...
but if you want to put it in a init.d script (for autostart) you need.

@05081983
It is possible with only this one line in the script ...
(mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2 /mnt/sdcard/transferred )
But I would like to suggest to do it with three or four lines with a mapping into the original folders for Music, Photo and Video. But this are my own 2 cents.

 

[im_iceman]

Doesn't mapping the external SD folders to the internal folders mean that you won't know which files are on the internal memory and which are on the external SD card?

 

[obicom]

No, if you go the "one line way" all folders will be mapped on the internal sd card into the folder 'transferred'. Therefore you know that all folders in 'transferred' are from the external card.

 

[TheHurf]

Just something else to bear in mind when setting up the script file, dont save it as a .txt or .sh, leave the suffix blank, then it'll run properly!

 

[rimsilva]

Finnaly I was able to have this script working

I'can see the the music in SONY music player, but I have 2 questions:

1. The files will only be available in SONY player? They don't appear in Goggle Play.

2. The files in Music sdcard2 were copy to sdcard? They appear there.

 

[obicom]

1.) The same files should be vissible in both (all) players. maybe you could re-scan the sdcard with a tool like "Rescan SD" from the Google Play Market. (feeless)

2.) The files are not copied. they are mapped with the mount command. It only looks like .. that this file are on the internal sdcard ... but in reality they are physically on the external sdcard.

 

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What I'm looking for is be able access external card from computer.
So I've tried

mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2 /mnt/sdcard/sdcard

It works fine from within tablet itself, I see /sdcard/sdcard folder and in that folder all files from /sdcard2, but on Windows 7 it shows an empty folder. However copying new files in that folder save them on /sdcard2 as it supposed to. But after tablet reboot, even though files are still physically there, Windows 7 shows an empty folder again.

Any solution for this?

Thank you.

[EDIT]
It seems this only happens if tablet plugged in to the computer before reboot. If I plug it after reboot, everything is fine. Maybe I need increase the sleep time for this?

[EDIT2]
Is bind command only works with root of partition?

I've tried use this and it doesn't work, nothing mounts:
mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2 /mnt/sdcard/external/sdcard

 

[sengoku]

this is all great and all.
but' how about a nice little app you could point to that does about the same, or is this script method the only way??
i'm guessing root is required but thats all i'm getting:silly: