What is Android's file system? [closed]

Answer 1

By default, it uses YAFFS - Yet Another Flash File System.

Answer 2

since most of the devices use eMMC,the file system android uses is ext4,except for the firmware.refer-http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/12/saving-data-safely.html

Here is the filesystem on galaxy s4:

• /system ext4

• /data ext4

• /cache ext4

• /firmware vfat

• /data/media /mnt/shell/emulated sdcardfs

The detailed output is as follows:

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system /system ext4 ro,seclabel,relatime, data=ordered 0 0

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata /data ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,no dev,noatime,discard,journal_checksum,journal_async_commit,noauto_da_alloc,data=o rdered 0 0

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/cache /cache ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,node v,noatime,discard,journal_checksum,journal_async_commit,noauto_da_alloc,data=ord ered 0 0

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/efs /efs ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,no atime,discard,journal_checksum,journal_async_commit,noauto_da_alloc,errors=panic ,data=ordered 0 0

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persdata /persdata/absolute ext4 rw,secla bel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/apnhlos /firmware vfat ro,context=u:objec t_r:firmware:s0,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0337,dmask=0227,codepage=cp437, iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=lower,errors=remount-ro 0 0

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/mdm /firmware-mdm vfat ro,context=u:objec t_r:firmware:s0,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0337,dmask=0227,codepage=cp437, iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=lower,errors=remount-ro 0 0

/data/media /mnt/shell/emulated sdcardfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1 023 0 0

Answer 3

Similar to Linux:

• /boot

• /system

• /recovery

• /data

• /cache

• /misc

Answer 4

Android supports all filesystems supported by the Linux kernel, except for a few ported ones like NTFS.

The SD card is formatted as ext3, for example.

Answer 5

When analysing a Galaxy Ace 2.2 in a hex editor. The hex seemed to point to the device using FAT16 as its file system. I thought this unusual. However Fat 16 is compatible with the Linux kernel.

Answer 6

It depends on what filesystem, for example /system and /data are yaffs2 while /sdcard is vfat. This is the output of mount:

rootfs / rootfs ro 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /sqlite_stmt_journals tmpfs rw,size=4096k 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock0 /system yaffs2 ro 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock1 /data yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock2 /cache yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/block//vold/179:0 /sdcard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0

and with respect to other filesystems supported, this is the list

nodev   sysfs
nodev   rootfs
nodev   bdev
nodev   proc
nodev   cgroup
nodev   binfmt_misc
nodev   sockfs
nodev   pipefs
nodev   anon_inodefs
nodev   tmpfs
nodev   inotifyfs
nodev   devpts
nodev   ramfs
         vfat
         msdos
nodev   nfsd
nodev   smbfs
         yaffs
         yaffs2
nodev   rpc_pipefs