Re: Mounting SD card with specific encoding

On 25/12/2007, Tod Merley <todbot88@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 24, 2007 9:47 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 25/12/2007, Tod Merley <todbot88@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 24, 2007 3:21 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How can I mount an SD card (via USB card reader) to have a specific
filename encoding? My Fedora box is UTF-8, but the SD card in my Nokia
6288 seems to be CP1255 or ISO-8859-8. What mount command should I
use? I read man mount and I see no mention of encodings.

Thanks in advance.

Dotan Cohen

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Hi Dotan Cohen!

CP1255 or ISO-8859-8 appear to be Hebrew/Latin document character
sets. The mount command deals with mounting file systems.

Thanks, Tod. Yes, those are Hebrew character sets. The Hebrew
filenames show up as question marks, not letters. So if on the Nokia I
make three directories on the card:
EnglishDir
תיקייהעברית
עודאחד2

Then this is what I see on my laptop:
EnglishDir
???????????
??????2

You probably would do well to have the Hebrew (probably already loaded
it think I see) and Latin languages loaded into your system.

Of course:
$ locale
LANG=he_IL.utf8
LANGUAGE=he_IL:he:en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="he_IL.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="he_IL.utf8"
LC_TIME="he_IL.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="he_IL.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="he_IL.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="he_IL.utf8"
LC_PAPER="he_IL.utf8"
LC_NAME="he_IL.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="he_IL.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="he_IL.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="he_IL.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="he_IL.utf8"
LC_ALL=he_IL.utf8

One would hope that the SD card when connected to your USB adapter and
then plugged into your computer would auto mount.


Actually, it does not. I mount it manually. Why that is, I don't know.
But it does not bother me.

If not, see if your
phone documentation mentions the file system type.

Fat32, formated by me on a windows machine.

You might loose or
need to reformat a card on your camera if you try this but a good
guess would be "mount -t msdos /dev/xxxx /media/myphonepictures"
assuming that xxxx (or xxx) is where the hardware is connected into
the system and that the directory "myphonepictures" exists before the
command is issued. I just placed a flash drive on my system's USB
port and then ran mount. This is the last line printed by mount:

/dev/sdb1 on /media/disk type vfat
(rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=500)

"/dev/sdb1" is where the hardware is - "/media/disk" is where the
files are mounted on the file system and "vfat" is the file system
type.

Always remember to unmount a volume before you physically remove it.

Of course!


Dotan Cohen

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Hi Dotan Cohen!

You are probably way ahead of me on this as well but what I found
(with the help from Ed Greshko and Lucia) is:

The mount command to fix this will be something like:

# mount -o codepage=1225,iocharset=iso8859-8,utf8 -t vfat /dev/sdb1
/media/myphonepictures

# Has a very nice section on "The language selection parameters":
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/MountFATFileSystems

# Mention of the following:
charset=iso-8859-8 Hebrew Alphabet (ISO)
charset=windows-1255 Hebrew Alphabet (Windows)
# Found at (other Hebrew sets mentioned):
http://a4esl.org/c/charset.html

# Wikipedia on Windows 1225
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1255

# Wikipedia on iso-8859-8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO-8859-8

# Basic info on iso-8859-8 and iso-8859-8-I
http://www.fileformat.info/info/charset/ISO-8859-8/index.htm
http://www.fileformat.info/info/charset/ISO-8859-8-BIDI/index.htm

I do hope this proves useful!

Tod

Thank you Tod. I had read the wikipedia articles, but NSLU2 page was
excellent. I still cannot mount, I am getting this:

$ sudo mount -o codepage=1225,iocharset=iso8859-8,utf8 -t vfat
/dev/sdb1 /media/usb
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

-- snip from the end of dmesg --
[420043.556000] usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
[420043.756000] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[420043.804000] input: HID 1241:1177 as /class/input/input44
[420043.804000] input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [HID 1241:1177] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1
[420704.856000] usb 3-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 26
[420704.988000] usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[420704.988000] scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[420704.988000] usb-storage: device found at 26
[420704.988000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[420709.988000] usb-storage: device scan complete
[420709.988000] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic USB SD Reader
1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[420709.988000] scsi 7:0:0:1: Direct-Access Generic USB CF Reader
1.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[420709.988000] scsi 7:0:0:2: Direct-Access Generic USB SM Reader
1.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[420709.988000] scsi 7:0:0:3: Direct-Access Generic USB MS Reader
1.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[420710.176000] SCSI device sdb: 1984000 512-byte hdwr sectors (1016 MB)
[420710.180000] sdb: Write Protect is off
[420710.180000] sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[420710.180000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[420710.180000] SCSI device sdb: 1984000 512-byte hdwr sectors (1016 MB)
[420710.180000] sdb: Write Protect is off
[420710.180000] sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[420710.180000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[420710.180000] sdb: sdb1
[420710.184000] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
[420710.184000] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[420710.188000] sd 7:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sdc
[420710.188000] sd 7:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[420710.188000] sd 7:0:0:2: Attached scsi removable disk sdd
[420710.188000] sd 7:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
[420710.192000] sd 7:0:0:3: Attached scsi removable disk sde
[420710.192000] sd 7:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
[420951.876000] Unable to load NLS charset cp1225
[420951.876000] FAT: codepage cp1225 not found

Might I need to install codepage cp1225? Is that something
installable? I am still reviewing the NSLU2 page to see what I can
come up with. I have tried narrowing down my options, and found this:
$ sudo mount -o codepage=1225 /dev/sdb1 /media/usb
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

$ sudo mount -o /dev/sdb1 /media/usb
mount: can't find /media/usb in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb
$

So it's the -o that seems to me to have been problematic. Man mount
shows me that some -o options must be specified in /etc/fstab to work,
however, I cannot specify _all_ the USB keychains that I will ever
connect in fstab! I'd like to be able to connect any USB memory and
have it 'just work', in fact, the wife demands it! :)

Note also that I cannot unmount the device once mounted as above:
$ sudo umount -a
umount: /home: device is busy
umount: /dev: device is busy
umount: /proc/bus/usb: device is busy
umount: /var/run: device is busy
umount: /sys: device is busy
umount: /: device is busy

Note: I made a mistake... This is an Ubuntu system, not Fedora. I feel
like a jerk as this is the second time that I've written to the Fedora
list with an Ubuntu problem. I distro hop a lot, and sometimes loose
track of what is installed where. I would still appreciate the wisdom
of the Fedora gurus, Tom and everybody, and if I deserve a "go bug the
Ubuntu list you traitor" then go ahead and flame me. I still need to
fix this problem, though!

Dotan Cohen

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