**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Wed Oct 21 10:59:57 2020 Oct 21 10:59:58 Also general linux knowlege I have is that ext4 driver is the thing that supports all ext versions in generallly linux, but I also have no idea how is it implemented in android or purposeflully left out or whatnot Oct 21 11:00:19 losetup error code now worries me... Oct 21 11:00:39 akik: I'll have a peek Oct 21 11:03:19 i wouldn't be surprised if losetup would fail in android Oct 21 11:15:00 riiight, /dev/block/dm-0 is mounted ext4 on /data. So the problem is with loopback, then. Oct 21 11:15:51 akik: I did not drop it and I have a leather home made case for it Oct 21 12:59:15 got it. manual `losetup` on /dev/block/loopX with an offset on (a copy of) the whole device image; then mount **** ENDING LOGGING AT Thu Oct 22 10:59:57 2020