ADBFS a FUSE Filesystem for Android Debug Bridge

Android Debug Bridge(ADB) is usually used for debugging android devices. I personally use it to move files arround because mounting your sdcard can sometimes be a bitch. moving files around in command line isn’t fun too imagine typing the following:

adb push bla /sdcard/ultRa\ Long\ Directory/AnOther\ Long\Directory/bla

not fun…. so to solve this problem i wrote ADBFS. With adbfs, i can simply drag and drop files as usual.

Requirements

*nix Os (or any os that support FUSE – i think windows has a port.. not sure)
FUSE ( macfuse for mac users – windows, i don’t know.)
android sdk from Android developers site
git

Installation

git clone git@github.com:isieo/adbFS.git .
cd adbFS
make
mv adbfs <location of android sdk>/tools/adbfs

Usage

mkdir ~/mounted-adb
adbfs mounted-adb

done! enjoy drag and drop without needing to “mount” your sdcard to your machine.

Note: adbfs can be very very slow at times, this is because your file manager is trying to access all the files to get data from it. ADB was never designed to do this so its not fast. Also this program is a proof-of-concept if anyone have a better implementation, please suggest.

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Warning

Very experimental =P its usable though i use this regularly to modify my playlist file.

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Calvin,

this seems to be very neat, just what I need.

However, it fails on Froyo FRG83, because the needed utils are not there, or not with the needed syntax:

laptop$ ./adb shell stat -t stat: permission denied laptop$ ./adb shell $ su # stat stat: not found ^D laptop$ ./adb shell ls -1a / -1a: No such file or directory config cache ...

What kind of userspace do you have on your phone? Are these utils are shipped in some other version of Android? If these are not standard, wouldn’t it make sense to assume that the phone has busybox, and use busybox commands?

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csheemea on November 9, 2010 at 6:57 pm said:

OK, worksfome like this:

diff --git a/adbfs.cpp b/adbfs.cpp index 36d0278..acb6ac7 100644 --- a/adbfs.cpp +++ b/adbfs.cpp @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ queue adb_shell(string command) string_replacer(command,"%","\\%"); string_replacer(command,"=","\\="); string_replacer(command,"~","\\~"); - actual_command = "adb shell "; + actual_command = "adb shell busybox "; actual_command.append(command); //actual_command.append("'");

You could make a mention of the utilities needed to get it running. And for ordinary people, the git command should be indeed

git clone git://github.com/isieo/adbFS.git

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I have given it a try with a normal user with adbfs command. But the mount point can’t be accessed with that account, even though I try to unmount or remove it with root account.

The file system just shows like this

d????????? ? ? ? ? ? mounted-adb

Nobody can access it any more. I have to kill the adbfs daemon. But it still
can’t be accessed.

And good advice, thanks!

BR/JP

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Calvin Tee on January 14, 2011 at 9:36 pm said:

hm not sure what’s going on but if you need to unmount try
fusermount -u mountpoint

you shouldn’t need root

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- Ildar Mulyukov on May 3, 2011 at 6:06 pm said:
  
  AFAIK you need root to install busybox.
  
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  - Calvin Tee on May 3, 2011 at 6:16 pm said:
    
    fuse doesn’t need root
    
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$ adbfs -d ~/mnt/adbfs
…
LOOKUP /.Trash-501
getattr /.Trash-501
stat -t “/.Trash-501″
unique: 12, success, outsize: 120
unique: 13, error: -2 (No such file or directory), outsize: 16
unique: 14, opcode: READDIR (28), nodeid: 1, insize: 80
unique: 14, success, outsize: 16
unique: 15, opcode: LOOKUP (1), nodeid: 1, insize: 71
LOOKUP /-1a: No such file or directory
getattr /-1a: No such file or directory
stat -t “/-1a: No such file or directory”
Segmentation fault

Android 2.2

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Ildar Mulyukov on May 3, 2011 at 6:05 pm said:

Oh!
that was again the “adb shell busybox ” problem.
But the next problem is:
$ ls adbfs/
…
ls: cannot access adbfs/sbin: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access adbfs/sdcard: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access adbfs/sys: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access adbfs/system: No such file or directory
?[0;0mdefault.prop?[0m ?[1;34m.?[0m ?[1;34mproc?[0m
?[0;0mEUROPA.rle?[0m ?[1;34macct?[0m ?[1;34mroot?[0m
?[1;32minit?[0m ?[1;34mcache?[0m ?[1;34msbin?[0m
…

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Calvin Tee on May 3, 2011 at 6:06 pm said:

try csheemea’s patch, my code assumed that you have busybox installed and the paths are setup already. roms like cyanogenmod will work.

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Hello, just tried adbFS but it gives lot segfaults when I try to copy files
Also tried with the patch

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For latest GCC:

diff –git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6a2894d..be1db66 100644
— a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
CXXFLAGS=-Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
-LDFLAGS=-lfuse
+LDLIBS=-lfuse

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Just a quick note to say thanks for sharing your work!
Worked for me on Ubuntu 11.10 and rooted GalaxyNexus (Android 4.0.2).

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Your repository is ssh protected – it requires password or a key to clone! I can’t get the source… I really need it now. Can you help out?

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Calvin on March 21, 2012 at 3:43 pm said:

Hey dave,
Its not protected.

git clone git@github.com:isieo/adbFS.git

should work

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- Sovereign on July 31, 2012 at 3:45 am said:
  
  It doesn’t. I get:
  
  Cloning into ‘adbFS’…
  Permission denied (publickey).
  fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
  
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  - Calvin Tee on August 1, 2012 at 2:19 am said:
    
    What happens when you visit https://github.com/isieo/adbFS ?
    
    Can you browse the code?
    
    As far as i know my repository is public and i get pull requests from some contributors so i know its accessible.
    
    Can you clone other public github repositories or is it only my repo that you can’t clone?
    
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utils.h:37:18: 致命错误： fuse.h：没有那个文件或目录
编译中断。
make: *** [adbfs.o] 错误 1

why i can’t complie this

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Calvin on March 1, 2013 at 4:22 am said:

Do you have libfuse installed?

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