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I trying to mount an ext4 sdcard on a Samsung Galaxy Tab a6 (sm-t580) running Android 6.0.1. It has the original ROM, but is rooted and has TWRP installed.

I've tried the following commands on adb:

mkdir /mnt/media_rw/0000-FFFF
mount -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /mnt/media_rw/0000-FFFF

This sucessfully mounts the volume and the volume can be viewed on the command line but is invisible to the gui. I follow with this command.

/system/bin/sdcard -u 1023 -g 1023 -U -1 /mnt/media_rw/0000-FFFF 0000-FFFF

But this spawns the following error:

E sdcard  : cannot mount sdcardfs filesystem in default (error 2)

When I run the last the sdcard command as an ordinary user I get

E sdcard  : Error setting RLIMIT_NOFILE, errno = 1
E sdcard  : installd fs upgrade not yet complete. Waiting...

The second line of which repeats indefinitely.

I also tried running vold but that just prints out Aborted on the standard output. Running the following command triggers a mount

/system/bin/vold --blkid_context=u:r:blkid:s0 --blkid_untrusted_context=u:r:blkid_untrusted:s0 --fsck_context=u:r:fsck:s0 --fsck_untrusted_context=u:r:fsck_untrusted:s0

but just results in the following on logcat

no match partition type(131) -> change table to kUnknown
disk:179,32 has unknown partition table; trying entire device
...
Failed to pclose /system/bin/blkid -c /dev/null -s TYPE -s UUID -s LABEL 
/dev/block/vold/disk:179,32 : File exists
[WARNING] blkid failed to identify /dev/block/vold/disk:179,32
disk:179,32 failed to identify, giving up

Which is the same as when you insert the sdcard in to the device.

Any takers?

MJ Walsh
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UPDATE an better solution https://android.stackexchange.com/a/204616/119381

First steps:

I could mount and use my pen usb with ext4 after install [1] but still bery tricky (need root) I need first do 

   adb shell
   su -
   mount -t ext4 /dev/block/sda1 /mnt/sdcard/usbStorage/sda1/

and after umount and mount sda1 with stickmount.
For some reason stickmount (when works alone) says that device is mount but it is not , I need mount it as root ... , after I mount it , stickmount do the rest of the work ...

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.stickmount&hl=en

Update 2017-12-26:
After read: https://android.stackexchange.com/a/131839/119381

https://source.android.com/devices/storage/config.html
and https://stackoverflow.com/a/28018008/778517

I did is and works on kodi and other apps , 

adb root
adb connect 192.168.1.160
adb shell mount -o rw,remount /;

adb shell

(edit) /fstab.hardware and change vfat to ext4

vi fstab.rk30board 
/devices/30040000.otg*     auto ext4 defaults      voldmanaged=usb:auto

mkdir /data/media/0/usb1
mount -t ext4 /dev/block/sda1 /data/media/0/usb1/
mount -t ext4 /dev/block/sda1 /storage/emulated/0/usb1/

I also used [root] adb wireless from google play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dshylai.adbwifiwidget&hl=en but now I see that I have more options

More info: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Moto-X-Play/Android-ext4-support/td-p/3262765

Sérgio
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  • Thanks but unfortunately this didn't have any effect on my sdcard. – MJ Walsh Dec 26 '17 at 15:01
  • answer updated ! – Sérgio Jan 01 '18 at 19:30
  • Apologies for never getting back to you on this. After I tried the first version of your answer, I changed to LineageOS and I was never able to try the new answer out. – MJ Walsh Nov 23 '18 at 18:28
  • Hi Sergio am bit late but wont the fstab be overwritten with every boot ? – user1874594 Jul 13 '19 at 16:07
  • yes , I got a better solution now (but it still requires root) , I will try update the answer soon – Sérgio Aug 10 '19 at 23:12
  • Ok Still have not heard back. I have 3 Ext4's I can mount them manually But I need these to be handled by vold so that they can be emulated like any other 'fat partition` – user1874594 Feb 10 '20 at 08:22
  • https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/204123/how-mount-or-auto-mount-an-usb-stick-formated-with-ext4-and-be-visible-or-work/204616#204616 – Sérgio Feb 12 '20 at 22:09