Can someone tell me if the Infuse 4G shipped with RFS as it's file system or if it's ext4? That may be a deciding factor on whether or not to purchase it. Thanks!
I don't have my device yet, but I've seen RFS mentioned as the file system in a couple of other threads.
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What's the file system used in the Asus transformer with stock rom?
Ext4, fat?
I'm asking because I find the Android system works much better with ext4 than RFS with the Samsung Galaxy S.
I was wondering if the same problem exists with Asus Transformer.
ext4
rfs is a samsung fav.
any idea what the Asus Transformer uses?
like really
ext4
RFS is more samsungs thing
oh, ic, thanks for the clarification.
you first post read "ext4 rfs is a samsung fav..." without any paragraphs or extra spaces so it was confusing. lol
hi, so i was looking at Leedroid ROM and noticed in the OP it says that you can flash an optional file that will delete everything and format to ext4... this raised a few questions for me since I came from Nexus S.... is the stock sensation formatted in ext3 or 4? Also, don't most of the custom roms upgrade to ext4 or no? and do i have to use this file in the OP of Leedroid's ROM to format the whole system to ext4 before flashing an ext4 rom? I already asked many times in the dev section and nobody would help me out so if someone can help clear this up for me I would appreciate it... thanks!
mattdub1 said:
hi, so i was looking at Leedroid ROM and noticed in the OP it says that you can flash an optional file that will delete everything and format to ext4... this raised a few questions for me since I came from Nexus S.... is the stock sensation formatted in ext3 or 4? Also, don't most of the custom roms upgrade to ext4 or no? and do i have to use this file in the OP of Leedroid's ROM to format the whole system to ext4 before flashing an ext4 rom? I already asked many times in the dev section and nobody would help me out so if someone can help clear this up for me I would appreciate it... thanks!
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I wish I could chime in more for you but I do know that when flashing LeeDROID it converts to ext4 so I would guess that it isn't that way to start.
From Terminal Emulator, you can type in "mount" without the quotes and it'll tell you which file system is used in each "mount" (analogous to partition, if you're a windows user).
I just did it on my stock sensation 4G (TMOUS) and it's mostly, if not all, EXT4 already. Unless I'm reading it wrong.
thanks for the response guys!
Anybody wanna help me resize my data and system partitions? I can't figure out how to do it myself, the closest thing I found was for evo 4G, but I'd rather not take the risk of blocking my phone using that method. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1077426
Question I have to ask is why ?
Garridon said:
Anybody wanna help me resize my data and system partitions? I can't figure out how to do it myself, the closest thing I found was for evo 4G, but I'd rather not take the risk of blocking my phone using that method. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1077426
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It can't be done with this method, it looks like that's firerats custom MTD partitions and the Shift is EMMC partitioned which means no one has even thought about that.
prboy1969 said:
Question I have to ask is why ?
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The reason this mod came about was because the older phones like the hero and whatnot had very little system memory, but after running firerats script it would give the hero like 300mb of system memory on Sense, so its a major memory increase and it would most likely eliminate the need for a2sd
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Might be a better idea to do use a sd-ext rom with a partition on your sdcard. The shift has so little internal space in general, it might be a better idea to do that if your looking to get space.
Also, the OG Evo has a MTD memory, and the Shift has EMMc, which I believe is a lot less flexable to being changed than MTD is. Tell me if I'm wrong though.
Thanks for the quick response guys, I was really hoping to increase my data partition. There's so much room left untouched in the system folder. So no hope in doing this I assume your saying?
Sd_ext or move trusted apps from /data to /system
Garridon said:
Thanks for the quick response guys, I was really hoping to increase my data partition. There's so much room left untouched in the system folder. So no hope in doing this I assume your saying?
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You really wouldn't get much more outta system for data as you would a ext partition. Sd-ext is virtually unlimited depending on the size of your sdcard.
Not to mention you would have to revert back to the stock settings in order to install a sense rom for updating prl and such things. This could be very tedious.
Firerat's initial custom mtd was for the G1, which is a aosp phone stock and does not need tons of system/rom space.
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hello everybody!
I tried to find an answer on this on the ROMs thread but I couldnt so here it is;
Can I use ICE DS v 4.2 with ext3 only? If so, can I disable afterwards ext4 support?
Thanks
why wouldnt you use ext4? it's an advantage thou. but if you dont want to use ICE DS in future, just revert to ext3 by using 4EXT Recovery.
For the amount of internal memory that our devices have there is no matter whether you use ext3 or ext4. Also the install script of the ROM itself will format the partitions as ext4 upon flashing so there is not much choise actually If you like to go back to ext3 after flashing 4EXT Recovery can do this without losing any data
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Thanks for the quick replies..
When I used a stock ROM with a rooted Desire, I remember discussions about the disadvantages of ext4.
The idea as I understood, was that ext4 was more likely to create filesystem corruption in case of an abnormal shutdown of the phone, eg battery removal, expecially if it used to extend phone memory to the sd card via proper partitioning.
It is exactly the opposite. The ext4 file management will prevent corruption in case that a read/write process gets interrupted by a battery pull or similar. Search Google for ext4 there are all the benefits described on a Wikipedia article.
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amidabuddha said:
It is exactly the opposite. The ext4 file management will prevent corruption in case that a read/write process gets interrupted by a battery pull or similar. Search Google for ext4 there are all the benefits described on a Wikipedia article.
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This.
ext4 wouldn't exist, or developed if ext3 is better.
i read up on a file called, Mitsuyoshi EXT4 Mod.. i read that when u install it, that it speeds up ur phone dramatically. is this true?
ortind200 said:
i read up on a file called, Mitsuyoshi EXT4 Mod.. i read that when u install it, that it speeds up ur phone dramatically. is this true?
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Ext4 is a faster file system tha stock so yes.
Now if you also removed the ext4 journal. (Not safe and unrecommended , because without the journal, if you lost power while writing something, your OS would not be able to continue the writing operations and would leave you with corrupted and unuseable files)
So yes, this mod is legit.
Its just like voodoo lagfix. (ext4 mod)
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Ext4 is a faster file system tha stock so yes.
Now if you also removed the ext4 journal. (Not safe and unrecommended , because without the journal, if you lost power while writing something, your OS would not be able to continue the writing operations and would leave you with corrupted and unuseable files)
So yes, this mod is legit.
Its just like voodoo lagfix. (ext4 mod)
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but does it work on JB and kitkat on any android phone?
I would figure that as long as your kernel supports ext4 and you manage to convert your file system to ext4 then its possible.
But you should give your device name first, because the ext4 file system isn't meant for some devices. (Specifically the optimus v, we are stuck with yaffs2 because it destroys our chip)
Then go ask a dev in the forum for your device if it will work.