Hello guys,..
i tried to change my /cache to f2fs, via TWRP ( 3.0.4-1 ), but whenever i'm back in the system and check,
it was mounted back to ext4.
I have my /data mounted as f2fs already, so i assume my stock 4.1.3 can handle f2fs, right ?
Where did i do wrong ?
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I changed /system partition to f2fs for using temasek. Now I want to change it back to ext4. I converted all the other partitions to ext4 successfully. But when I try to change /system to ext4, it appears to go successfully. However, when I reboot, it still shows f2fs in the TWRP recovery.
I am using latest TWRP recovery (2.8.7.0_7 I believe).
Can anyone help me on this?
if u want to make sure ...just format the sys and if u see the line formatting system ex4_ then it's ext4 and if it's not then flash the latest twrp 2.8.7.0_8 and re-convert sys to ext4
Changed file system to ext4 and then wiped /system partition, now it is successful
I tried changing /cache and /data to f2fs using TWRP 2.8.7.0 (that is the lastest available for MI3). But it showed errors: unable to mount /data and unable to mount /cache. My phone was not usable as it won't boot to Ressurection Remix and also storage wasn't detected by my PC even when TWRP supports MTP.
I had to again format the data and cache to ext4. Now everything works.
Can anyone help me with this. If anyone has successfully managed to changed the file system on MI3. Which ROMs are compatible with f2fs?
You need a kernel with f2fs
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Hi,
I have installed custom ROM and apparently it converted my userdata partition to F2FS, because when I try to install any other ROM it fails after checking userdata filesystem type. TWRP doesn't boot as well, I only have CM recovery working. I'm looking for someone who can help me write updater script to format the partition back to ext4 using mkfs.ext4 which is included in recovery. Please help.
Installing custom TWRP with f2fs support from here helped.
Hi team, i did a nandroid backup, and noticed twrp reset system to ext4. so then after looking i noticed only the data partition is f2fs. is this standard? or is system normally f2fs?
Hi,
Only data is f2fs, system and cache are ext4.
Hi, wouldn't it be sufficient to switch to a custom kernel with f2fs driver to be able to run MIUI with a f2fs file system? It is even possible? With LineageOS you still cannot use f2fs on the /system partition (maybe in the initial ramdisk there is no f2fs driver ?) but at least /data and /cache partition, also on MIUI. Is there a way to do that?
I'm trying without success, installed a custom kernel which claims to have f2fs support, formatted the cache partition in f2fs to do some testing, typed the 'df' command in the linux shell but no cache partition is displayed.
Using f2fs on the /system isn't a good idea to begin with, the /system is a read only partition so you wouldn't benefit from anything that f2fs gives.