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Sansa e280, repartition fat32 & ext2, speed up database refresh

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jimbolaya:
I'm wondering if I can reformat my 8Gig Sansa drive to say 1Gig fat32 and the remainder as ext2. My hope is that the database refresh of the original firmware will only look at the 1Gig partition and ignore the ext2 partition. That would speed the refresh up. My music files would be on the ext2 partition. Does anyone have any thoughts or experience here? Thanks.

krazykit:
Rockbox only supports FAT.

edit: and by FAT I meant FAT16 and FAT32.  Supporting only FAT12 would be silly.

scorche:
Well, FAT16, FAT32, etc...

e280ruser:
If you want to speed up the refreshing of the database, convert your files to a format that is unsupported in the original firmware.  I recently converted my collection to ogg to reduce disk usage, and have noticed that the database refreshes in 2-3 seconds.  Of course, then you can not play them in the original firmware, but then again, if you were planning on putting your music on an ext2 partition, I guess that you don't use the OF, except for data transfer and charging.  Also, why would you use ext2?  Ext3 is pretty much the same thing but with better data integrity  due to journalization.  If you really would prefer this method, then maybe you could write a patch to allow for different filesystem support in Rockbox, although this may require quite a bit of knowledge in the C language and a lot of work.  Good luck ;)

Chronon:
Well color me confused.  Why would the speed that Rockbox updates its database depend upon whether a given set of files is or isn't supported by the OF?

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