On Wednesday, 31 August 2016 11:39:27 AM AEST David Zuccaro via luv-main wrote:
When I mount my samsung phone in debian linux, which directory (starting from root) can I access the files on it from the command line? I'm trying to find and copy a mms video file off it.
Sorry if that's worded awkwardly, hope it makes sense.
I don't use MMS, but I think what happens depends on the app you use to read SMS. It might be a good idea to Google the name of the app to try and find this out. Or run "adb shell" and use find. Also the version of Android on the phone makes a big difference. If you even tell people the model of phone it will allow them to provide more specific advice. As an aside, it's very disappointing that there are such limited versions of find etc on Android. The minimum Android device nowadays seems to have 8G of storage and 512M of RAM. I don't think there's any reason why the utilities on Android should be less capable than the ones we were using 18 years ago when PCs had 8G hard drives and less than 512M of RAM. If modern coreutils is considered to be too big then the Android developers could get the source to one of the Debian releases from soon after the ELF transition. Source code from the days when a server had 16M of RAM and a 500M hard drive should compile on modern Linux systems and be less resource intensive than modern versions of the same utilities. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/