Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Junbeom Yeom

Woojoong Lee

Sungjong Seo

Yeongjin Gil

Jaewook Kim

Hyeongjun Kim

Hobin Woo

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a storage device configured to include a first partition, a second partition, and a third partition, and a processor configured to configure the second partition as a first volume and the third partition as a second volume, and attach or detach the second volume to or from a file system to manage a storage space of the storage device.

Electronic device and operation method of electronic device for managing storage space

A method for initializing a storage is provided. The method includes comparing a size of a disk partition of the storage with a size of a filesystem image recorded on the storage, and reconfiguring the filesystem image in a dynamic manner if the disk partition size is larger than that of the filesystem image, wherein the filesystem image may include a metadata area composed of metadata blocks and a data block area composed of file data blocks, and wherein the data block area may include in sequence a first free block area composed of only file data blocks where data is not recorded, and a file data area composed of at least one file data block where data is recorded. Various other embodiments are possible.

Method and electronic device for initializing storage

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Junbeom Yeom