Timeline for What Is Using Up My Storage/Data on Android Phone?
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| Aug 28, 2019 at 16:23 | comment | added | Irfan Latif |
@SamT output of mount or df is enough to know what's mounted where. Root is not required.
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| Aug 28, 2019 at 16:21 | comment | added | Sam OT |
Thanks, but I'm not sure how to find out if I have a physically external SD card at /sdcard. I certainly have a physical SD card in my phone! It's a Motorola MotoE 2nd Generation, running on Android 6.0 -- it's not rooted (I tried, multiple times, but haven't managed)
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| Aug 26, 2019 at 21:49 | comment | added | Irfan Latif |
@SamT on most of the recent devices, /sdcard isn't physically external SD card. /sdcard points to just a directory in internal storage i.e. /data/media/0. Android calls it external storage and divides it into public shared storage and private shared storage. If you read the given link, things will be clarified. Do you have physically external SD card at /sdcard? Which Android version you are on? Which device is yours?
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| Aug 26, 2019 at 21:08 | comment | added | Sam OT |
When I try to update apps, or install apps, it often tells me that I don't have sufficient space, and I have to remove something. This doesn't seem to go with your last sentence about being in /sdcard/. I only have a few apps on the sd card; I'd move more, but they won't allow me (I tried, unsuccessfully, to root my phone)
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| Aug 25, 2019 at 22:28 | history | answered | Irfan Latif | CC BY-SA 4.0 |