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Originally Posted by PeterT
Something I've often wondered about (and wished for) is the ability to rather than rely on calibre detecting the USB mount of a device, for it to "optionally" / "experimentally" detect a given mounting point / driver letter as being a device.
This wish is driven by the fact that my main computer these days is a chromebook which while it DOES support access to USB storage does NOT pass the USB device through to linux environment; instead USB storage is presented as /mnt/chromeos/removable/.... ; in my case as /mnt/chromeos/removable/KOBOeReader/
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I saner wish (but no-one at Google listens) is that if you don't enable the device for Android in External Storage, and do add it as a USB Device (and that option does appear) to Linux Development system, it will work as it should. Sometimes (once on MTP and once with USB-MS) that did work with Calibre on Crostini.
USB support in Crostini seems to be in flux. It seems very hit & miss as to which "supported devices" appearing on the Linux USB Manage screen actually work in Linux (Crostini is currently a minimal Debian 12 with Wayland, but Chrome Browser appears to render the windows).
Lots of things that work now on Crostini didn't use to work. I can mount SAMBA shares in Crostini instead of via Google Files and Share with Linux.
An ext4 microSD card works.
My main PC is Linux Mint + Mate on a Dell 7050 on Solar UPS with 23" 4K UHD screen, 512K SSD & 4T HDD. I have a 17" HD Lenovo laptop with 256 SSD & 2T HDD for "going out", but the Samsung Galaxy Go Chromebox has about twice the battery run time and I now maybe have everything I want except the Compose Key. There is a soon to be expunged ComposeKey extension via ChromeBrowser that works on Android and ChromeOS, inc the "penguin" terminal, but not on any Linux App. AFAIK iBus or any Linux IME doesn't work and the input is magically from ChromeOS. Setting Regional in Linux to be UK/Ireland rather than USA was a bit tricky.
I can more easily connect to Kindle on actual Android than Crostini!
It's a moving target. If someone did what you want today it would break tomorrow!
Also neither Android, ChromeOS, Crostini or regular Linux has drive letters.