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   Carlos E.R. to Frank Slootweg   
   ext4 on Android (Was: blah, blah, blah..   
   03 Feb 25 15:16:42   
   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-02-02 17:29, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   > Janis Papanagnou  wrote:   
   >> On 02.02.2025 15:50, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   > [...]   
   >   
   >>> Android is *nix based, yes, but uses an MsDOS filesystem (FAT).   
   >>   
   >> Yes, I know. For some reasons inferiors concepts are invented and   
   >> they also don't die once they've got widely spread.   
   >   
   >    To be clear, Android's native filesystem is not FAT (but ext4), but if   
   > you use a (Micro)SD-card in an Android device (which is partly the   
   > subject of this ... ahem ... 'thread'), then the filesystem on that card   
   > is FAT (assuming it's not used as an extension of Internal Storage   
   > ('disk' space)).   
      
   Are you sure it is ext4?   
      
   On old phones, when connected to computer, the internal storage was   
   taken over directly by the computer, and it did appear to be FAT.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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