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Originally Posted by NiLuJe
Also, the actual user content is stored on a vfat partition, and FAT32 is the pits, no matter which way you look at it.
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Yeah, but
there's a mod around here that lets you mount it as ext 2/3/4, although I think you had to format it outside of the Kobo (I can't remember; it's been a few years, but you could then manually set block size, if you wanted) along with a
discussion about it.
I actually had mine running ext4 for a while and was amazed at how much faster it seemed at booting up compared to running fat32 on it, until it was pointed out that it was because it wasn't running any kind of fsck on boot compared to when it was formatted with fat32 (there were some pros and cons though, and
my experiences are later in that thread). And of course, if you go this route, you'll no longer be able to mount it under Windows unless you have a Windows ext driver installed (I think). I ultimately switched back to fat32 because at the time, I was regularly switching between Linux and OSX and so wanted to still read it under both. It worked fine, though. If I wasn't OS agnostic, I might have stuck with it.