I am looking to figure out how to know if a rom is F2FS or ext4?
I see people are talking about the rom is ext4 or F2FS. I'm a flash happy person and would like to not flash wrong.
pctechdroid said:
I am looking to figure out how to know if a rom is F2FS or ext4?
I see people are talking about the rom is ext4 or F2FS. I'm a flash happy person and would like to not flash wrong.
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In most cases it is ext4 by default. If it is F2FS compatible, it should be explicitly written in the OP. If you still can't figure it out, just ask
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I have a nagging question about switching from ext3 to ext4 kernels. I flashed a rom (1.20) and than flashed the ext3 kernel and than the ext4 kernel. I want to flash and update to the rom which is ext3 only. Do I just flash a ext3 kernel on my present rom and then flash the updated rom or can I just flash the rom over the present rom which has ext4. I kind of wish I had never flashed ext4 at this point. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
all of the roms out have ext3 so u could wipe cache and then wipe dalvik then flash the rom over it the ext4 kernel, or the ext3, like say faux updated his rom u could flash that over it and u would be fine then u would have his ext 3 kernel installed, u do know that his roms come preinstalled with the ext3 kernel rite??? its just up in the op for people if they want to use it for cyanogen mod, so when u flash his rom it will have his latest ext3 kernel already installed, and if u want the ext 4 kernel u would have to install that over it
better yet dude do u have a nandroid of an ext3 rom? restore back to that and ull be good, for future reference always well i always make a backup of the rom i like with the ext 3 kernel, i get the rom how i want it then back it up....then if i want to slap a ext4 kernel on i do then when i dont want it or have an updated version of the rom (like fauxs) ill just restore my ext3 nandroid and update the rom then make another backup of it then slap the ext4 kernel back on if i want it. basically i never backup a ext4 kernel on my rom......the only thing i backup is ext3, and when u install the updated rom over ur previous rom like lets say faux updated his rom just wipe cache and dalvik and install rom all ur apps, and everything will still be there
What recovery is best for ext4.. i am currently using the latest xm recovery but i heard there was a better recovery that supports ext4... i am currently installing the revolutions zip ext4 so it formats my phone before i install any rom.. does that make my phone ext4 or should i install another recovery system?
miguel11691 said:
What recovery is best for ext4.. i am currently using the latest xm recovery but i heard there was a better recovery that supports ext4... i am currently installing the revolutions zip ext4 so it formats my phone before i install any rom.. does that make my phone ext4 or should i install another recovery system?
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I was passing thru but I think I can shed some light hopefully. I don't know about this "xm", but if it's anything like the EXT4 Recovery or Clock work recovery, or amon_Ra...If the recovery is a EXT4 specific recovery it should convert the file system to EXT4 only[/system, /cache, /data] when ever you wipe. But you need to flash a EXT4 enabled ROM also to take full advantage, a EXt3 ROM[EXt3 is default on all roms w/o EXT4] will work on the EXT4 partitions, but won't be as fast.
4EXTRecovery, it's awesome, everything is working great for me, used it to format my paritions to EXT4 without losing any data.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1161710
Hello, samsung phones (at least i9000) uses RFS (or something like that) as default partitions which causes the lag, and you can convert to EXT4 to make it faster.
What partitions do other phones like HTC use? EXT4 by default?
YAFFS2 or EXT4 are the ones officially supported by Android I believe. Samsung however added RFS, and some ROM developers add other filesystems such as UBIFS
Neleor said:
YAFFS2 or EXT4 are the ones officially supported by Android I believe. Samsung however added RFS, and some ROM developers add other filesystems such as UBIFS
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What does HTC sensation use by default? Just wondering because a friend is saying its ext4 but i thought that wasn't a default.
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i just flash 4ext recovery, coming from cwm, i notice this in the info
system ext4
data ext3
cache ext4
should i also convert data to ext4? and what is the difference between ext3 and ext4
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Convert if you do not want to lose data. If you going to switch the ROM wipe as ext4 before flashing. Ext4 is newer therefore better. If you need more info ask Google. All the ROMs are using ext4 already, but for a mobile device it does not really matter.
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amidabuddha said:
Convert if you do not want to lose data. If you going to switch the ROM wipe as ext4 before flashing. Ext4 is newer therefore better. If you need more info ask Google. All the ROMs are using ext4 already, but for a mobile device it does not really matter.
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so converting does not loose any data on my phone, thanks a lot buddy, button thanks pressed.. :good:
i was reading the temasek thread and noticed that keeping /system on ext4 is better for the phone. judging by the slow downs i found after switching to f2fs... i have to agree. so i am hoping to clarify something right quick. formatting /system back to ext4 - will not erase my roms, correct? thanks.
phermey said:
i was reading the temasek thread and noticed that keeping /system on ext4 is better for the phone. judging by the slow downs i found after switching to f2fs... i have to agree. so i am hoping to clarify something right quick. formatting /system back to ext4 - will not erase my roms, correct? thanks.
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Formatting /system will erase everything that resides in the /system partition obviously.
timmaaa said:
Formatting /system will erase everything that resides in the /system partition obviously.
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indeed obviously. i have so many issues with the drivers on my xp machine that i just wanted to be sure. if it erased my downloads... i would have been hours. i went ahead and took the chance a bit earlier. i should have updated. thanks for responding.