fstab on android?

[pauld99]

Can someone please tell me how android devices decide how to mount what, where, on boot?

My specific problem is that my SD card is now being mounted in a different place (I'm using cyanogenmod if that makes a difference, thought I have used it before without having this problem). It matters because there are some apps that cannot see the card, and I need it for music etc.

My first thought was to edit fstab, but there doesn't seem to be one.

Thanks!

 

[EarlyMon]

Look through /init* scripts, and perhaps /fstab* - the latter may be suffixed with qcom for example.

 

[pauld99]

Look through /init* scripts, and perhaps /fstab* - the latter may be suffixed with qcom for example.

Okay, thanks for that, the problem lies in the init script that for some reason symlinks /sdcard to /storage/emulated/legacy.

I can change the link to /storage/sdcard1 and everything works, till next boot. I have tried editing init.qcom.rc which is where the symlinks are set up to comment out the ones I don't want and insert a new one, but on reboot. this file has been changed back to its original form, so something presumably generates it at boot. Any idea what?

I don't reboot the phone all that often so I could just put an extra script in there to do what I want. but I would like to know what is going on.

 

[EarlyMon]

It's probably part of what gets unwrapped along with the ramdisk - so you're not actually seeing the permanent location, that's part of the boot image.

Last person I recall working on this (for another phone) was Sepero -

http://androidforums.com/motion-4g-...-external_sd-back-mnt-sdcard-version-1-a.html

http://androidforums.com/motion-4g-...r-real-sdcard-mnt-sdcard-v2-lg-motion-4g.html

Hope that helps, pretty sure it'll save you some time...