How to format file system to EXT4?
Get a kernel that supports ext4 and flash it. It may or may not format your filesystem to ext4, depending on its update script.
Or, better yet, flash a ROM with a kernel with ext4 support.
You can find links in the Android Development section.
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Hi! I just want to know what is the EXT4 that is saying in most of the ROMS like "homebase", "Aura" and etc.? And what is the EXT4 CONVERTER With fauxs kernel that is in the homebase additional downloads? Does the ROM that you choose automatically convert your filesystem to EXT4? thanks
JohnMacky said:
Hi! I just want to know what is the EXT4 that is saying in most of the ROMS like "homebase", "Aura" and etc.? And what is the EXT4 CONVERTER With fauxs kernel that is in the homebase additional downloads? Does the ROM that you choose automatically convert your filesystem to EXT4? thanks
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You have three questions lets make them numerical..
1.) http://bit.ly/rjxoTd
2.) converts filesystem to ext4
3.) no. unless it says it does, then yes.
I have Bootmenu installed. It does not provide any way to format the /system partition How do I format the /system partition with or without the recovery ?
Why do you want to format?
Just install other ROM, it will delete everything and replace /system with the new one?
Cheers,
I am owning next to my i9100 a P7510 GTAB 10.1 wifi.
I am looking for a kernel that supports dual booting like the siyah kernel on my i9100.
I searched the threads, but there were only questions about strange things like win8 or ubunto booting.
In fact I am just looking for an 'easy' way as siyah does on the i9100, meaning creating hidden partitions and to mount this partion as /data, /system instead of the normal partitions.
Does any one know, which kernel supports that? I chacked a1 and pershoot but didn't see anything
I don't think we have one that supports what you're talking about.
OK, thanks. Is a great feature that I love on sgs2 to try other roms as second rom and still having all in place of your primary rom without backing up/ restoring all for ages
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just an extract how it works on the SGS2:
2) "What's the basic architecture behind dual booting?"
A. Any rom will have /system, /data, /cache partitions and requires a kernel to boot. Primary rom has all these partitions on the same location and partitions as if you were single-booting. ie, /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 for /system and rootfs for /data and /cache. Secondary rom uses a hidden partition (/dev/block/mmcblk0p9) for /system and sdcard to store /data and /cache partitions. They're stored in /sdcard/.secondrom directory as mountable ext4 block device images (data.img and cache.img).
Kernel partition is shared, so same kernel boots both the roms. If you switch from Siyah to a different kernel, dual booting will not be available even though there's a clone of secondary rom. Internal sdcard, external plastic sdcard, /efs, /emmc, other kernel related virtual filesystem directories, etc are shared among roms.
from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24233085&postcount=2
Would be great if one of the kernel devs out there could have a look into it
HelloN guys,
is it possible to format partitions to EXT 4 on Stock Kernel?
If so please help on how to go about it
They are already ext4
Hey,
basically the title. I have rooted my Redmi Note 10 as i am doing some analysis using autopsy. Surprisingly, i was unable to analyse the userdata partition as autopsy does not support f2fs. I was not expecting a f2fs data partition as the system partition is also formatted as ext4. Without switching to a custom ROM, is it possible to force MIUI 12.5.5 to use ext4 by re-formatting and re-flashing the device?
in my humble opinion you shouldn't mess with partitions
Well, that does not solve my problem^^ I tried to change the partition using TWRP. However, whenever i flash the MIUI ROM, the process formats the userdata partition back to f2fs. Even TWRP will reformat the userdata partition to f2fs when i format the data. Where is defined to which format TWRP formats the partitions? Has anyone an idea on how to solve this issue?