Is it possible to have F2FS on a microSD card and use it as external/portable storage when running Marshmallow / CM13 ?
I've tried and failed. I was able to use mkfs.f2fs to format my SD partition as f2fs, but Marshmallow then claimed the card was corrupt.
I edited the fstab in my initrd to use auto, or f2fs instead of vfat for the SD card but it made no difference.
I wish to do this because I believe that sync'ing long plex movies causes thousands of metadata writes to the file size and will soon wear out my SD card.
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Hi !
I just installed the Lag Fix in my Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000B and looks like it is fine.
As far I understand, the lag fix patch formats the internal SD as ext4 to have more stability and speedy.
So I am wondering if the external SD card would have similar benefits if I format it as ext4 too.
I don't have a spare external SD to check it my myself, so if anyone could provide any information, would be nice.
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Hi
I have an external sd card and i want to have a second partition in ext4, to put somme date on it (larges files)
i read and test since 15 days and what i can said is
you need to have a first partition (primary in fat32 on the sd card)
the second partition in ext4 is not seen by android os !!! I mean, there is no way to mount automaically these partition at boot and use it.
I have found a old lagfix from mimocan which mount external ext4 , but it is to store applications as we do in sdcard. I do believe we can use for data but it is old now we have kernel and rom with ext4 in native mode and i don't find how use ext4 on external card for data instead of program (with link2sd for exemple)
link2sd or app2sd only works with internal sd card !
regards
When formatted with EXT3, can i simply drop anddrag stuff into /sdcard ie folders for music and stuffs??
Thanks.
When you partition your card its with a fat32 partition and and ext2/3/4 partition. your ext partition will be used by your linux android platform for a2sd+ feature and wont be accessible to you when you connect your device as a drive.
However the fat32 partition will be visible to you and you can put all your stuff on it normally as you do.
hope this helps.
Now since my nexus s doesn't expose the FAT32 sd card filesystem anymore, due to file sharing over MTP, I thought that changing the sd card filesystem might be an idea worth investigating.
FAT32 is probably not the most efficient choice for an sd card file system, what options do I actually have? Could switching to ext4 result in performance gains? Would my device actually recognize the new filesystem?
Is there another filesystem that handles sd cards even better and is it supported by kernel/ics?
Hi,
My SD card suddenly went unmountable. My phone restarted automatically and hasn't been able to mount the card. It is not recognizable in Windows too. I just see a grayed out drive that has 0MB.
I'm using Apps2SD on my phone and I had to partition my SD card with one Ext4 partition and on FAT32.
The thing is that because the first partition is Ext4, Windows cannot see the second FAT32 partition.
How can I check if my SD card really went dead or is it a matter of corrupted file system?
What program can I use to scan and check Linux partitions on SD card?
I have partitioned SD card (10GB ext4 for installed ubuntu and 5GB fat32 as SD card)
with Emui 3.0 -huawei Y5 II- the 5GB part was the readable one with no problem
But when installed RR 5.5.6 some times the ext4 part get mounted or unreadable at all
Please answer fast can't depend on the phones internal ...
Thanks Forwarded
Update AppMgr III (App2Sd) read the fat32 partition and says this device doesn't enable users moving apps to the SD card because of the manufacture or the SD card is not inserted