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Qasim
Asked: 2013-03-15 07:27:59 +0800 CST

How To Make Use Of F2FS?

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I am very interested in F2FS, so I installed f2fs-tools (File System For SSD/nand drives)

So my questions are:

  • How do I use it?
  • Is it safe to use?
  • Can I format a USB drive with F2FS and again, would that be safe?
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1 Answers

  1. I spent the day yesterday fiddling around with F2FS. Yes, you can format any partition with mkfs.f2fs in f2fs-tools. But neither the graphical nor the non-graphical installers will recognize it. So all you can do is use it as a data partition.

    Since (g)parted regards it as an unformatted partition, they will successfully reformat it.

    I'm eagerly awaiting the ability to try putting / on an F2FS partition, even if /boot has to remain ext4. Much of my testing is done with SDHC cards in netbooks.

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