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Old 01-17-2024, 09:51 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by nixR3ad View Post
IIRC, I had a kobo years ago with internal ext4 storage. I know this because I have a painful memory of being very intoxicated and converting it to btrfs. It bricked. Many years later I own a Sage. It's a FAT format which is very limiting. Are people creating ext4 partitions? Is that what I did back then? Memories are fuzzy, but I require a filesystem that doesn't truncate the paths of files when I send them to the device.
Converting the exposed partition to another format is both very easy to do and not that easy to do. It will require that you modify various scripts to change multiple settings such the flavour of fsck used. This will also break on a firmware update since the scripts will be overwritten. You may also want to remember that the Sage does not have removable internal storage so if you brick it, you have an expensive paperweight.

As for truncating file names, since I use calibre, it doesn't matter what file system I use, the file names will be truncated since calibre aims for the LCD. As for the effect of truncating the file names, it is a non-starter for me since Kobo uses the information from the book metadata for everything. You had noticed the common complaints that Kobo default software does not allow you to browse by file name/paths? From comments I've read, most people consider Kobo's search to do a far better job of locating authors, books, series, subtitles, etc. than any directory structure can offer.

You can console yourself that 2/3 of the partitions will still be ext4.
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