asked 2016-09-14 12:48:40 +0200
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I've formatted SD-card to ext4 within the smartphone and had no access to it. I did devel-su chown -R nemo:nemo /path/to/mounted/sdcard.
Did i do it right or wrong ?
This question is duplicating: https://together.jolla.com/question/138603/wrong-premission-after-sd-card-formated-by-native-storage-app-to-ext4/
answered 2016-09-14 13:22:29 +0200
Looks right for me. You need to be root to format a card. That's normal linux behavour. Then, you had first to mount, then to change owner of the directory, as you did.
The same behaviour is expected for any other typical Unix filessystem beside ext4 (e.g.: btrfs, etc.) that stores access rights.
It doesn't happen with FAT32 / exFAT(*) as those don't have any concept of access rights and the sailfish OS' mounting daemon typically make it accessible for nemo:nemo (the default phone user).
(*) for licensing reason exFAT isn't supported out of the box. So one either need to reformart SD Cards >32GB, or one needs do install exFAT support from openrepos.net
DrYak ( 2016-09-14 19:00:29 +0200 )editAsked: 2016-09-14 12:48:40 +0200
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Can you elaborate about "no access"?
Giacomo Di Giacomo ( 2016-09-14 13:33:59 +0200 )editcannot create anything
Perfect_Gentleman ( 2016-09-14 13:34:51 +0200 )editRather than chown, try a chmod 777 on the root of the card. It worked for me.
Giacomo Di Giacomo ( 2016-09-14 16:33:35 +0200 )editI had the same problem. After the same command, a reboot solved the problem and now I can read/write on card.
magullo ( 2016-09-14 16:44:06 +0200 )editI think changing the owner to the phone's user (chown nemo:nemo ) is better than making the card universally writeable by anything (chmod 0777)
DrYak ( 2016-09-14 18:56:57 +0200 )edit