external SD mounted via init.d: no shortcut in TC Homescreen

[amokbunny]

Greetings!

First, being a long-time user of the Windows Comm...erm, the Windows version of Total Commander I seriously love the android version, it's an as perfect tool as under windows

But one problem:
I have an ext4-formatted external SD, which I mount via the init.d-folder.
This works fine: I can access it via the original mount point (/storage/sdcard1 - yes, CM10) and also via the symlinks /mnt/extSdCard and /extSdCard.

But: In TC, only the shortcut of the first/internal SD shows up, no shortcut to the external SD.

Do I use a "standard" SD and let android do the mounting it shows up fine as shortcut SD-card1 in the TC Home screen.
Just to clarify, I can perfectly access the external SD when manually mounted in TC. It's just not showing up in the TC home screen.

Any ideas?

[ghisler(Author)]

Unfortunately there is no function on Android to get additional SD cards.

TC can only show cards which are listed in
/system/etc/vold.fstab
and
/proc/mounts

Maybe you have an idea how to detect manually added mount points?

[amokbunny]

When does TC query the mountpoints?

I guess TC reads "/system/etc/vold.fstab" and/or "/proc/mounts" before the SD is mounted by the initscript (or, at least, gets information about mounts from before that point), since after boot the SD shows up in both:

cat /system/etc/vold.fstab:
# external sdcard
dev_mount sdcard1 /storage/sdcard1 auto /devices/platform/s3c-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc1/

and

cat /proc/mounts:
/dev/block/mmcblk1 /storage/sdcard1 ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0

So in principle the entries are there.
Could one have TC re-read the mounted partitions after TC starts up?

[ghisler(Author)]

When does TC query the mountpoints?

1. When TC starts
2. TC registers a callback for the event: Intent.ACTION_MEDIA_MOUNTED

Thanks for posting the lines from these two files, I will check why they aren't recognized.

[WolfgangN]

Hello,
I'm currently not that well informed about all details in Android/Linux and it's filesystem. Nether the less, may I ask you following ?

I own a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (rooted) with a external SD card which I changed to have two partitions. First partition is FAT32, second partition is EXT3. I need this for using the APP Link2SD which move Apps to the second partition of this SD card and set a link for Android.

Total commander (and no other file commander so far) didn't show this second partition.
Don't know whether this can be improved... hope so ! Did you get any similar query so far ?

By the way, many thanks for all the great work on the total commander ! I licenced it some years ago. It works great ! Many thanks !

[ghisler(Author)]

TC only creates links for partitions which appear both in
/system/etc/vold.fstab
and
/proc/mounts.

Partitions mounted with the app Stickmount aren't shown either. If you have any idea how to detect them, I will add them.