AOSP Images, Pseudo-Filesystems, and Mount Points on Android

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Image Disks

• ramdisk.img
• system.img

what are these :warning: TO BE ADDED

References

• https://source.android.com/devices/bootloader
• https://source.android.com/devices/bootloader/system-as-root

RamDisk

:warning: TO BE ADDED

what is it?

difference ramdisk, ramfs, tmpfs?

how to use them?

References

• https://blog.csdn.net/alextanghao/article/details/2660656

Pseudo-Filesystems Android Uses

proc

sysfs

cgroup

tmpfs

debugfs

functionfs

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_device
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems

MountPoint on Android

about mount command in Android :thinking: TODO: Learn more

Use mount to see all mount points of Andorid

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The root file system is mounted using the ramdisk.img, it is actually a readonly rootfs RamDisk