Formatting internal MTD storage: selecting block size?
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I have rooted china N101-II tablet with CyanogenMod after flashing custom ROM .
Internal MTD storage is 32 GiB large and custom ROM flashing make different layout to internal partitioning. Thus
/data
near 12 GiB instead of original 1 GiB (so thera are no longer need to move packages to external flash!!):
130|root@android:/system # df
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/system 595.4M 549.8M 45.6M 1024
/data 11.8G 449.8M 11.4G 4096
/cache 126M 4.1M 121.9M 4096
Rest space left to /mnt/sdcard
:
root@android:/ # cat /system/etc/vold.fstab
dev_mount flash /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/virtual/mtd/mtd9/mtdblock9 nonremovable
but custom ROM flashing process left mtdblock9
unformatted.
Under PATH
available commands: mkfs.ext2
and tune2fs
so I can format myself.
mkfs.ext2
support:
130|root@android:/system # mkfs.ext2 --help
mkfs.ext2 --help
BusyBox v1.21.1-jb bionic (2013-07-01 01:04 +0200) multi-call binary.
Usage: mkfs.ext2 [-Fn] [-b BLK_SIZE] [-i INODE_RATIO] [-I INODE_SIZE] [-m RESERVED_PERCENT] [-L LABEL] BLOCKDEV [KBYTES]
-b BLK_SIZE Block size, bytes
According to:
root@android:/ # cat /proc/mtd
cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00400000 00004000 "misc"
mtd1: 00800000 00004000 "kernel"
mtd2: 01000000 00004000 "boot"
mtd3: 01000000 00004000 "recovery"
mtd4: 18000000 00004000 "backup"
mtd5: 08000000 00004000 "cache"
mtd6: 300000000 00004000 "userdata"
mtd7: 00400000 00004000 "kpanic"
mtd8: 28000000 00004000 "system"
mtd9: 46fa00000 00004000 "user"
seems that I need to select block size as 16384 (16KiB). Am I right?
**UPDATE** Seems that mkfs.ext2
from busybox and doesn't properly functioning:
android# mkfs.ext2 /dev/block/mtdblock9
mkfs.ext2: lseek: Value too large for defined data type
But I found mke2fs
:
android# mke2fs -I 16384 /dev/block/mtdblock9
mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
mke2fs: invalid inode size 16384 (min 128/max 4096)
In order to reduce fragmentation I try to select larger block size (which make lesser amount of erase operation on flash I hope):
android# mke2fs -I 4096 /dev/block/mtdblock9
mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
1162128 inodes, 4651520 blocks
232576 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=0
142 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8184 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000
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