All as the newbie, I want to test to run MKV video on my Galaxy. I was able to copy and run 2.5Gb mkv but having problem copying >5Gb file. I.m using darky 8 and lagfix ext4. From the wiki I understand that ext4 can handle file size up to 16Gb, so what would stop this from copying big file to my galaxy? kernel ?
The lag-fix replaces RFS partitions with ext4 partitions.
The partition you mount and see in Windows is a FAT32 partition, it's not RFS and it's NOT ext4. The max limit for file size on FAT32 is 4GB.
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NTFS wont get recognized by linux, so we're stuck with smaller mkv files.
Try to put the micro sdcard directly in the pc
esticbo said:
Try to put the micro sdcard directly in the pc
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You get a small jacket for micro-sd card which turns it onto a thumb drive.
esticbo said:
Try to put the micro sdcard directly in the pc
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Will that magically unlock features not available on the filesystem used on the SD-card?
Answer: No it won't.
How large is the limit on FAT32, 3.7GB ??
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I had an idea this minute
if we are using images with a size of 1,7GB or what else... why aren't we using some tools like resize_reiserfs and so on to repartition the Internal SD and creating a new partition with native yaffs2 or ext4 on it?
I dont't really know where our ext2 images are laying but if this could be possible it should be much faster right?
That's the thing - it won't be faster. The internal SD card is pretty slow. That's why the original lagfix used a repartitioned external SD card..
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That's the thing - it won't be faster. The internal SD card is pretty slow. That's why the original lagfix used a repartitioned external SD card..
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Actually, it IS faster... That's why the newer lag fix uses an image on the internal SD card
I'm also wondering why nobody's trying to mount the internal SD with ext or yaffs2 instead of rfs...
EDIT : some answers : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=750663
That's right !!!
We are using a mounted image with a filesystem laying on a native filesystem.
The reason why we aren't using the whole internal SD card with yaffs2 or ext4... is we cannot partition the whole internal SD card and copy our files afterwards.
BUT... we are able to compile some tools like "fdisk", "resize_[filesystem]" for ARM to use them direcly on the system for resizing (smaller) -> creating a new one -> and format it with yaffs2 for example.
After that we have the ability to use this partition like the ones in all other lagfixes mounting, symlinking...
That's the Idea
DasLeo said:
That's right !!!
We are using a mounted image with a filesystem laying on a native filesystem.
The reason why we aren't using the whole internal SD card with yaffs2 or ext4... is we cannot partition the whole internal SD card and copy our files afterwards.
BUT... we are able to compile some tools like "fdisk", "resize_[filesystem]" for ARM to use them direcly on the system for resizing (smaller) -> creating a new one -> and format it with yaffs2 for example.
After that we have the ability to use this partition like the ones in all other lagfixes mounting, symlinking...
That's the Idea
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Did you read what's already been written in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7739573 ??
It's been tried by mimocan already, but didn't give a better result. Please do not start new threads on topics that's already been discussed elsewhere.
okay then close this
I have a 1 gig card to use in my rooted NC. Do I need to format it some special way ? I have it formated as NTFS but I can not read it with ASTRO. It should be listed under sdcard right ? but I dont see it.
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From what I've read on the Nook Color spec, it supports the FAT32 filesystem.
Try formatting your microSD card to that (or use the Nook to format the sd card directly)
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I have a 1 gig card to use in my rooted NC. Do I need to format it some special way ? I have it formated as NTFS but I can not read it with ASTRO. It should be listed under sdcard right ? but I dont see it.
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Yup, FAT32 will work if what you have is a PC. There may be some UNIX filesystem format that's supported too, but for a 1 GB card, FAT32 is enough with its 4 GB file size limitation.
Its nice, O2x can play full hd video. i have hdmi cable, full hd screen, but how can i play it, when its not posible to store it on SD card? does anyone have solution to play 1080p videos larger than 4GB on O2x?
-when i format SD card to other FS than fat32, it cant be recognized by phone.
-i havent found any kernel with other fs support on sd card.
-all old questions in other forums end that the phone have small screen resolution and i dont need full hd movies.
use dlna and stream from a pc, i dont think we can have files larger when 4gb on android
it isnt solution of the problem
it's not a problem android can't use files larger when 4gb and where is nothing to do abort it, so dlna is the only solution, or you can use handbrake to make the file smaller
If you use a Linux desktop system (think mac works to) you can format the sd card to ext2. It should make it possible to store the files that's bigger then 4GB. Since Its rather a limit of the fat32 file system then android it self.
I have tested ext2 on Cyanogenmods kernel and works for me. Didn't test the file size limit since I tried with a spare 2GB card, will make my 16GB card to ext2 soon to try.
you have to resize your size of 1080p movies, because the limit of fat32
I did make my 16GB card to ext2 and it mounted an worked perfectly fine. Only problem I found was the lack of ext support in cwm recovery.
Might be able to fix if source code to cwm is available. Since its just the mount line rhat needs to be changed to auto.
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it's not a problem android can't use files larger when 4gb and where is nothing to do abort it, so dlna is the only solution, or you can use handbrake to make the file smaller
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It's not an Android limitation but a VFAT filesystem limitation. This filesystem is very old and at that time hard disks were small and so 4GB limit sounded sufficient...
NTFS, HFS+ (Mac), and all linux filesystem (ext2, ext3, ext4, XFS, and so on) can manage files > 4 GB.
The only problem is that if you format your card in Ext4, it won't be recognised directly by Windows (no free driver, I think a commercial product exists). Ext2 and ext3 can be read from Windows (there are free apps to do that), but it won't be as simple as VFAT as you'll have to install this specific program on each computer you plug your phone in. (With Mac non problem as it is Unix based OS).
Hello guys!
I have 16GB micro SD card and I can't put a movie larger than 4 GB.
my card is formatted as fat32, but I've managed to install paragon+ and mount ntfs card but I still can't copy file larger than 4GB.
Or to be more precise, I can save file via PC on SD card, but all applications don't recognize file.
I have tried with both 4.1.1 and 4.1.2
Does anyone know how to solve this?
paragon didn't mount exfat.
oskreso said:
Hello guys!
I have 16GB micro SD card and I can't put a movie larger than 4 GB.
my card is formatted as fat32, but I've managed to install paragon+ and mount ntfs card but I still can't copy file larger than 4GB.
Or to be more precise, I can save file via PC on SD card, but all applications don't recognize file.
I have tried with both 4.1.1 and 4.1.2
Does anyone know how to solve this?
paragon didn't mount exfat.
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It's an android limitation. Android has not NTFS support out of the box. I was sure it supported exFAT (our big brother does AFAIK) but after formatting my 16 GB class 10 SDcard my phone didn't recognize it anymore So, FAT32 and no 4GB+ files
However there's a good chance CyanogenMod supports these file systems (at least exFAT) out of the box
oskreso said:
Hello guys!
I have 16GB micro SD card and I can't put a movie larger than 4 GB.
my card is formatted as fat32, but I've managed to install paragon+ and mount ntfs card but I still can't copy file larger than 4GB.
Or to be more precise, I can save file via PC on SD card, but all applications don't recognize file.
I have tried with both 4.1.1 and 4.1.2
Does anyone know how to solve this?
paragon didn't mount exfat.
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Get a live USB stick for any Linux distro and try saving it that way.
AW: [Q] micro SD card exfat
It should be possible to reformat the card as ext2/3/4. Android would support it natively. The only issue would be for Windows users to install a kind of driver to use it.
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It should be possible to reformat the card as ext2/3/4. Android would support it natively. The only issue would be for Windows users to install a kind of driver to use it.
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Already tried that and it's not working.
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Get a live USB stick for any Linux distro and try saving it that way.
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I've solved it.
I've formatted 16 GB SD drive half as fat32 and half as ext4, and then i've made a script to mount ext4 to /mnt/storage3 folder.
Now I can dowbload torrents larger than 4GB.
@oskreso, can you share the script?
I feel like I'm missing something here.
I can't transfer a movie into my SD card. It's admittedly a large file. Around 5 and a half gigs. Since its over 4, I get that pesky error that happens with Fat32 formatted storage. I tried reformatting the card to NTFS, but the phone just asks to reformat it when the card is reinserted.
Anyone have a solution or am I stuck having to rip the movie in a smaller file size?
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foulmouthedruffian said:
I feel like I'm missing something here.
I can't transfer a movie into my SD card. It's admittedly a large file. Around 5 and a half gigs. Since its over 4, I get that pesky error that happens with Fat32 formatted storage. I tried reformatting the card to NTFS, but the phone just asks to reformat it when the card is reinserted.
Anyone have a solution or am I stuck having to rip the movie in a smaller file size?
Sent from my SM-N950U
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Fat32 is 32bit filesystem so it won't be able to read / write more than 3.76gb files , so you can use exFAT instead of fat32
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vinumsv said:
Fat32 is 32bit filesystem so it won't be able to read / write more than 3.76gb files , so you can use exFAT instead of fat32
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You are a champion! Thanks for your help!