For small images, the newer mkfs.ext4 uses a 512-byte block size. Use mkfs.ext4 -b 4096 to set a 4096-byte block size.

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The default file system in Windows is NTFS, and the default file system in Ubuntu Linux is EXT4. The purpose of today’s 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux post is to try and understand what the difference is, ...

So a couple people (drag, I think?) labeled XFS as particularly "robust" and fast and, presumably, awesome. OK. This is not an argument, this is a question: if it's more robust than ext4, why are we ...

I have a Samsung galaxy tab 7" currently running the latest version of the overcome rom (but i'm not married to it if others here have better recommendations), and for whatever reason, whenever i try ...