So rather than go to bed like I should have done, I went and mounted my SD card as /home on my #Pinephone. I followed the instructions from the #Mobian wiki to the letter.
It works... Except I don't have read/write permissions on any file. I get asked my password for any action, including opening a music file from the Files manager. 🤦♀️
Managing permissions from the terminal is my Achilles' heel. Any advice anybody? 😢
Thanks. Will go to bed now...
Out of interest tried it and couldn't replicate your problem. Well, didn't follow the wiki to the letter, because my card had already been formated using ext2, but that shouldn't make a difference...
If you look at the screenshot and at your phone, do you find any differences?
@chrichri
Thanks, I have the same permissions on standard folders. Where the problem persists now is in the files I copied from my desktop PC, they're set as root...
Do you want to correct that problem ones only or are you looking for a solution to avoid it in the future?
@chrichri
I had only copied two albums as a test. I actually want to copy all my music library, and quite possibly a lot of pictures. So yeah, I would like to avoid this problem in the future. Thanks!
@chrichri
I didn't remove the card because I feared it wouldn't be detected again. Which is what ultimately happened even while leaving it in the phone.
I think my #Pinephone is bricked now. My home partition is on an undetected SD card which seems to prevent #Mobian from booting; I can't boot a different OS from another SD card; I have no way to access the system to revert the change to /etc/fstab...
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Well, removed my sdcard (containing /home) also and got the same result: #mobian not booting on my #pinephone.
Would be nice to make a mount fail during boot more graceful in #mobian.
But anyway, not all hope is lost. You need a serial connection if you're sure your phone does not boot from another sdcard anymore.
@chrichri
> You need a serial connection if you're sure your phone does not boot from another sdcard anymore.
Do you mean something like this?
https://pine64.com/product/pinebook-pinephone-pinetab-serial-console/?v=0446c16e2e66
Yep, I mean that one and using the one dip switch to activate serial instead of headphones.
The wiki explains that you need not to buy the item from @PINE64 , but you can easily use an appropriate usb-serial with an adaptor cable.
I made mine from an usb-serial I already had to program esp8266.
https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php?title=PinePhone#Serial_console
