Is there NTFS support for the LG GT540? I've tried it by formatting my SD card in the NTFS file system but my phone says that it has an unsupported file system. Is there any way to enable NTFS support?
why would you even need that? for big files, i would imagine, but imo ntfs is probably the worst choice - it's dead slow, and i don't expect it to work. i would go for a bigger sd-ext partition, though how you can upload files to that is beyond me. sorry i didn't answer your question, just my two cents...
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Sometimes i want to move file that's bigger then 4G to a sd-cart. Unfortunately FAT32 don't support this
So I asked google and google didn't know eather, but he gave me interesting project. Android-x86
Android-x86 supports NTFS as file system.
So i was wandering, if in kernel i turn module ntfs on, will i be possible to convert fat32 partition to ntfs?
will it work then?
[edit] I know I can change fat32 to ext3/4 but will it be mounted to /sd-cart/ so i'll be able to write/read it from the phone?[/edit]
really interesting any news about this???
anyway some notice about other platform??? how is it possible that still today don't exist an operative system for smartphone with filesystem support more than old fat32 4gb data??? this has no sense for me
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[edit] I know I can change fat32 to ext3/4 but will it be mounted to /sd-cart/ so i'll be able to write/read it from the phone?[/edit]
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I realise I'm replying to an old post but as there's been recent activity on this thread...
I'd just use an ext2 partition. If you're running A2SD you probably have one already. I run MCR 3.2 on my Hero & this partition is mounted (as a result of A2SD) on /system/sd & is obviously read/write. Max filesize under ext2/3 is 16GB for a 1KB blocksize.
anything happen with this? with the wealth of tablets coming out with the ability to mount host powered usb harddrives it would be great to be able to read/write (or even just read) ntfs natively within Android. formatting to Ext3 is the only option at the moment and is a bit of a ballache if i want to use the drive for anything else or take it to a friends etc.
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anything happen with this? with the wealth of tablets coming out with the ability to mount host powered usb harddrives it would be great to be able to read/write (or even just read) ntfs natively within Android. formatting to Ext3 is the only option at the moment and is a bit of a ballache if i want to use the drive for anything else or take it to a friends etc.
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Havent heard anything yet. But you can use the EXT2/3 FS driver for windows to make your life a little easier. I use it when I pull hdds out of my NAS.
http://www.fs-driver.org/
i've been seeing that "Ext4 is required" for newer ROMs, but i was wondering what that actually means with respect to Android...i understand that it's a filesystem. thanks and sorry for the ignorance.
From my understanding it's kind of like how a hard drive is formatted. In this case we used to have rfs and thanks to the good folks here we now have the now becoming standard ext4 which is supposed to be a bit speedier on the I/O I believe.
I think it also supports larger file sizes.
great...thanks for the info.
rockrerun said:
I think it also supports larger file sizes.
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I don't think that would matter though. It's the SD card that is in FAT32 that would hold the over 4gb file. The phone will play it in any case. Now...if you formatted the SD to ext4 then I suppose this would be true. I don't know if the new file ext4 was needed to "read" an ext4 sd card or not though. I could simply format my sd to ext4 (since I'm still on RFS for now) and check out if an over 4gb video file would play...or be seen at all.
I've an I9505 with AOSP MIUI and ChronicKernel, and I have just bought a new 16GB Sandisk Ultra HCI (1) MicroSD.
Do you suggest to format it with an EXT4 filesystem or the default FAT32?
I've done some speed test, and the writing speed of 1GB file seems the same.
I don't usually need to store single files bigger than 2GB.
I also do not need to write on it from Windows. I can in any case safety read EXT4 on Windows with many apps.
I only seen that with the EXT4 I have 1GB less of free space, caused maybe by the SU allocated space. Tune2FS -m 0 seems don't work here.
The recovery seems to work on EXT4 well.
Is EXT4 much more safe, affrodable, fast and modern to justificate the upgrade?
Are there some more good reason to chose EXT4 over the very diffuse Fat32?
The only complains regards free space and writing from Windows. Seems possible just by few software, like Ext2Fsd-0.51, but it's still not possible to erase android user created files. I have in any case few of this needs.
Thank you in advance for your kind reply.
I have not seen significant difference in performance between filesystems.
However, I do need (from time to time) to have files bigger than 2GB on my SD card, since I use it as external disc too... so I go by inertia with NTFS.
You WILL need sooner or later > 2GB file on your SD... So, in your case, EXT4...
Thank you Bodisson.
I'm still looking a way to freeup the SU allocated space, wich is so hight. 1GB of loss space on a 16GB card!!!
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You WILL need sooner or later > 2GB file on your SD... So, in your case, EXT4...
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No, Fat32 has support for files up to 4GB. So only if you need files bigger than THAT you should change filesystem.
If you don't: simply stick with Fat32 as it is way way WAY more compatible with every phone, camera, computer, whatever.
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No, Fat32 has support for files up to 4GB. So only if you need files bigger than THAT you should change filesystem.
If you don't: simply stick with Fat32 as it is way way WAY more compatible with every phone, camera, computer, whatever.
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Thank you Pfeffernuss. I did a mistake. Fat32 and < 4GB file dimension, right!
In any case I would sacrifice compatibility but reliability. Fat32 is an old filesystem, and not very affrodable in case of OS crash. File recovery is also not at best. Speed for big files are the same, I admit. But the speed for small file access is much more slow.
I also use FTP and SCP for file tranfer.
I do not like to unmount MicroSD inside a full working OS to let it Windows directly compatibile. And also the internal memory is in any case Windows non accessibile.
Both can use MTP onthefly.
I like NTFS for Windows based usage. It's really much more fast and secure than Fat32.
I want to do the same in a Linux environment.
I'm finally oriented to an EXT4 ...
In any case thanks for your reply.
What rom have ntfs support for Galaxy A5?
Why this question? NTFS sucks
Why this answer? You tested ntfs on link2sd based? If no , test first
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Why this question? NTFS sucks
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NTFS is (still) the best file system both on security and file recovery, even it is made by Microsoft.
I tried to read NTFS pen drives on USB but I did not succeed. Neither to read/write sdcard formatted NTFS.
Try Paragon NTFS , is a paid app.
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Quick question, when having the Moto G4 Play, does it already come with F2FS already set? Or do I need to change the EXT4 to F2FS via TWRP? Just curious, that's all.
The /data partition is f2fs by default. Unfortunately the stock ROM doesn't seem to support f2fs for SD cards though.
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The /data partition is f2fs by default. Unfortunately the stock ROM doesn't seem to support f2fs for SD cards though.
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Lame. So do I have to format it to f2fs to support it via TWRP?
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Lame. So do I have to format it to f2fs to support it via TWRP?
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TWRP will likely support any filesystem on the SD card, but the stock ROM only supports exfat/fat32. CyanogenMod is usually much more tolerant of different filesystems and should support f2fs.
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TWRP will likely support any filesystem on the SD card, but the stock ROM only supports exfat/fat32. CyanogenMod is usually much more tolerant of different filesystems and should support f2fs.
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Great! Whats the best system I should change? /data? /system?
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Great! Whats the best system I should change? /data? /system?
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These are partitions, and they can be formatted with different types of filesystems. The /data partition is already f2fs, and the /system partition only supports ext4. No changes necessary here. The only change that you might want to make would be to your external SD card, and then only if you will be using a custom ROM. The stock ROM only supports exfat/fat32. If you only plan on using custom ROMs you might see some improvements by formatting your SD card f2fs.
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These are partitions, and they can be formatted with different types of filesystems. The /data partition is already f2fs, and the /system partition only supports ext4. No changes necessary here. The only change that you might want to make would be to your external SD card, and then only if you will be using a custom ROM. The stock ROM only supports exfat/fat32. If you only plan on using custom ROMs you might see some improvements by formatting your SD card f2fs.
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Ooohhhh I see. Would it be a good idea to change the system to f2fs on CM?
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Ooohhhh I see. Would it be a good idea to change the system to f2fs on CM?
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Pros:
Possibly faster, but by how much, who knows?
Likely less wear on the flash, but for a typical usage scenario in a phone it probably doesn't matter.
Cons:
The card can't be accessed directly in Windows, only Linux (maybe Mac?)
Stock ROM doesn't support it.
You could end up in the situation I'm in where you change phones and the new one only has the stock ROM that does everything you need it to, and you have to copy 55GB of stuff off your f2fs SD card, contemplate if you want to make it adopted storage or just exfat, and then copy everything back.
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Pros:
Possibly faster, but by how much, who knows?
Likely less wear on the flash, but for a typical usage scenario in a phone it probably doesn't matter.
Cons:
The card can't be accessed directly in Windows, only Linux (maybe Mac?)
Stock ROM doesn't support it.
You could end up in the situation I'm in where you change phones and the new one only has the stock ROM that does everything you need it to, and you have to copy 55GB of stuff off your f2fs SD card, contemplate if you want to make it adopted storage or just exfat, and then copy everything back.
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I meant /system and f2fs on the SD which u answered. Good points tho you never know.