use f2fs on sdcard

[flower]

Hello,

 

i've preordered an Helios64 and would like to install the main os on a f2fs formatted sd-card.

your documentation says that this is not possible, and i would love to see this possibility.

 

i guess most eMMC devices would also benefit

[martinayotte]

I doubt it can be done easily : U-Boot is not aware of F2FS, so it requires that at least the /boot folder to be located in EXT4 or FAT partition.

What you can do is to manually shrink the ROOTFS partition and then add a new partition that you will format as F2FS.

Then, you can transfer ROOTFS contain to new F2FS partition using tools such "rsync" or "tar|tar", and leave the /boot folder, adjust both /boot/armbianEnv.txt and /etc/fstab to point ROOTFS to the new F2FS.

[flower]

thank you; will do that.

[TRS-80]

Welcome to Armbian community, @flower!