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Old 03-11-2017, 08:18 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by zaoqi View Post
It's FAT32
Then you meant mmcblk0p4 not p3.
(Device numbering starts at 0, partition numbering starts at 1.)

Mostly you don't, the change would not persist.

During the normal boot process, both user areas (p3 and p4) are checked and if found invalid (ext3 and fat-32, respectively), reformatted.

Later in the boot process, the fuse file system layer on mmcblk0p4 is started, and it expects an underlying fat-32 storage.

There are quite a few system dependencies on p4 being fat-32 that you would have to change if you expect the Kindle to run after you re-formatted it.

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Not that it matters for this answer - but what is a "kindle 7" ?

Please update your information block with a known nickname or use the device nickname in your posts.
See:
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Serial_Numbers

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