XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: this@ddress.is.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?   
      
     Not really sure, but that's the most common answer when you do a   
   Google search. I found it strange that the Wikipedia page on Android   
   doesn't seem to mention its native filesystem. I've seen an official   
   reference about which filesystems it supports [1], but not which one it   
   uses.   
      
     So if someone has an official reference as to which filesystem   
   Android uses, i.e. its native filesystem, that would be nice.   
      
   > On old phones, when connected to computer, the internal storage was   
   > taken over directly by the computer, and it did appear to be FAT.   
      
     I think that was a virtual filesystem layer, i.e. presenting the   
   native filesystem as an FAT filesystem, so that could be accessed by the   
   outside world, because the outside world, especially Windows, could not   
   generally handle anything other than FAT.   
      
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