I've had an idea for an accessory to aid n900 travellers.

Most electronic hobby shops sell a little female to female USB connector, this gives an ability to connect two male USB connectors together, this would give access to the micro USB port.

No power emerges from the micro USB port, so the device would need an external power supply, I see no problem with and think a nine volt battery would suffice, giving the added benefit of an emergency power supply.

So what would the battery on this device do? Simple - power an external USB memory stick, I noticed that in the console command set the command 'mount' is present, this possibly gives the power to mount a powered external USB memory stick giving us near infinite memory storage.

If mount does not work, then the little travel box will need some kind of on a chip software, to clone the memory card onto the USB stick.

Regards,

Peter.

http://dollyknot.com

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=31921

Yeah thanks for the link, but I still wonder what the command 'mount' is doing in the console command line.

If there is nothing to mount, why does the command 'mount' exist?

Any decent Linux OS, can mount all kinds of stuff.

I bought this device because it was touted as a true open source Linux smart phone.

If it is a true Linux device, it should be able to 'mount' anything!

Unless of course Nokia tells porkies.

Does anyone know anything about fstab?

Peter

the USB port has a hardware limitation which doesn't allow host mode to be triggered or something on these lines...
mount can still be used on partitions if i'm not wrong, so it still has a sense.

Then the n900 is not a true Linux smart phone after all and you know everything, how sad, not a hackers phone then, how the Nokia shareholders must be laughing at all us n900 owners with emptied wallets, nice coup Freemasonary driven capitalism, open source - don't make me laugh.

the mount command is used in the early boot process to mount the various partitions (namely the /opt and MyDocs, just to name a few).

I don't really see the link between a "true Linux smartphone" and the fact that USB-to-go is not supported...after all there are a lot of Linux devices that don't support USB-to-go..so the point is?

Look I am over 60 and have a rusty brain, so have lost some hacking ability and I want my phone to be able to mount a USB memory stick, why do you and the other poster on this debate have a problem with this?

Perhaps you have a hidden agenda?

don't like it? go for something else. this simple. if you already bought it, and if this was a fundamental feature for you, you should have informed in advance.
your argumentations are pretty weak btw, as openness and linux have nothing to share with a USB OTG hardware limitation.

Yeah you win, God is money, sighs.

BTW you have spelt already wrong