US 12,229,427 B2
Electronic device and operation method of electronic device for managing storage space
Woojoong Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Yeongjin Gil, Suwon-si (KR); Jaewook Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Hyeongjun Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Sungjong Seo, Suwon-si (KR); Junbeom Yeom, Suwon-si (KR); and Hobin Woo, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Nov. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/071,056.
Application 18/071,056 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2022/018500, filed on Nov. 22, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0169304 (KR), filed on Nov. 30, 2021; and application No. 10-2022-0014398 (KR), filed on Feb. 3, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0168831 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 8/65 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 3/0644 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0665 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
8. An electronic device comprising:
a storage device including a first partition, a second partition, and a third partition, the first partition is a system partition, the second partition is a user data partition, and the third partition is a temporary space for supporting a storage space; and
a processor configured to:
configure a first file system for managing the first partition,
configure a second file system by using the second partition as a first volume and the third partition as a second volume,
detach, in response to a request for a system software update of the electronic device, the second volume from the second file system,
store a file for the system software update in the first partition,
attach at least one of free block of the second volume to the first partition,
perform resizing the first partition so that the first file system manages the second volume in response to a size of the file for the system software update,
perform the system software update, and
attach a space remaining of the second volume to the second file system.