From 089af764ec04f715fa3bc60d0fb6e6a30ed4fcb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Meadors <benmmeadors@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:41:21 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Replace FSCom.format() with FSCom.rmDir() for directory
 cleanup in NodeDB::loadFromDisk()

---
 src/mesh/NodeDB.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/mesh/NodeDB.cpp b/src/mesh/NodeDB.cpp
index b526bc869..a0212794f 100644
--- a/src/mesh/NodeDB.cpp
+++ b/src/mesh/NodeDB.cpp
@@ -1209,7 +1209,7 @@ void NodeDB::loadFromDisk()
     spiLock->lock();
     if (!FSCom.exists("/prefs/" xstr(BUILD_EPOCH))) {
         LOG_WARN("Factory Install Reset!");
-        FSCom.format();
+        FSCom.rmDir("/prefs");
         FSCom.mkdir("/prefs");
         File f2 = FSCom.open("/prefs/" xstr(BUILD_EPOCH), FILE_O_WRITE);
         if (f2) {