ok, just reflashed to streakdriod and things are nice and quick. I am looking to see how the storage works, setup some apps2sd, etc. I have an 8G SD card in that's completly empty. When plugged into my MAC I do see it available and empty. So I remove it, plug it into the streak and do the following
I select settings/storage and see the following;
Internal:
Total Space 0.00
Applications 90.67MB
MicroSD:
Mount external Storage
When I select Mount external Storage I get a quick display which looks like a breakout of pictures, etc. then it returns to that same screen. So is there a market app I can use, or a specific file system I have wrong, etc.
Also, when I plug into the streak, select mount the mac shows the mounted drive with the following info;
Format: MS-DOS (FAT32)
Capacity: 13.07GB
Available: 13.06GB
So here is my confusion. I am guessing the streak comes with an internal 16G, and the avail partition for my stuff is 13G. But why can't I mount that external? Also, can you use an apps2SD and use the internal 13G avail?
Thanks
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So, where is my external sd card in folder structure? I have these folders, in the list showing when connected by USB and looking at the root level (shows as E:\ on my computer):
external_sd
sd (shows as a 'hidden' file/folder)
Is one of these actually the external sd card mount point (4GB)? And how do you see what is the remaining space on the card while in this view--not looking at it on the phone?
external_sd is the external card.
Which rom are you running?
My external card shows up as another drive when I connect via USB and click on Mass Storage on the phone and mount it. It is not a folder, but a physical drive with its own drive letter.
sd was used in 2.1
external_sd was used from 2.2 up
they are linked shortcuts that work within the android system, but dont work when unmounted to windows as the external sd will show up as another drive.
TRusselo said:
sd was used in 2.1
external_sd was used from 2.2 up
they are linked shortcuts that work within the android system, but dont work when unmounted to windows as the external sd will show up as another drive.
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Very informative. Thanks.
In "Storage Settings" I can see I have 4.94GB available, but I have no idea how to access that partition. When the NC is connected to my PC, I can only see the 2GB SD card and the 1GB Nook partition.
this will help. just remember to eject before unplugging.
My phone displays that I only have 8GB total to store things on my sd card even though I have I have the 16GB card that came with it. It also displays 4GB internal for storage even though in settings it says 8GB. Any ideas what is wrong?
i to am having some isues but not the same as yours. when i mount my phone to my computer it will only mount the external sd card. cant seem to get the internal storage to mount. sometimes when i download an app is tells me not enough space when there is plenty of space.
with the messed up way motorola has partitioned the internl storage, it is causing alot of isues.
Well I know on my nook color (rooted and running cyanogen) when I try to mount the internal to the computer it doesn't work either so I'm not sure if the problem is the device or a limitation of Android.
Oh and I have had the not enough space message pop up when trying to download some apps I've found retrying the download or rebooting has helped.
Hi
Can anyone clarify the layout of storage on the SGN?
I have a 16GB removable SD card in the Note.
In Root Explorer I can see /SDCARD, beneath which I have /SDCARD/external_sd and /SDCARD/usbStorage. This structure is visible as drive F: on my PC when storage is connected to PC.
I also see a drive G: which appears to be mapped to /mnt/sdcard/external_sd.
Can you tell me which is the removable SD card and which is internal phone memory?
Is the 'external_sd' label being used for two different places?
As you can tell, I'm not an expert in UNIX-style folder allocations!
Thanks.
SD card is internal memory
SD card/Ext SD card is your ext memory card
SD card/USB storage is device attached with OTG cable
Thanks - that helps hugely!
Disregard the rest of this I've answered my own question!
Hi all,
Just got me an Xperia T, very happy with it.
Only thing I am having trouble understanding is how the file system works, please let me try and explain.
I have a 16gb micro SD card in the device and it also has 16gb of internal storage.
When I mount the device to windows it shows two drives (Internal Storage and SD Card), now these are pretty obvious as to which each one is.
Now my quandary: When I use astro file manager to browse the phone the file system is different (in fact pretty much the opposite).
The micro SD card shows up as "ext_card" and the internal storage (I think) shows up as "sdcard" and then there is another folder called "int_storage" that is empty.
Is this correct?
Could someone please clarify this for me?
Thanks,
Dave
Yes, this is the way it's supposed to be.
When you connect to the PC using MTP, you mount SDcard and ext_card from mnt.
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Cheers for the super fast response!
I thought that was how it was working but it was just a little confusing since it swaps around the name of each drive when plugged into windows.
Thanks again.
The way the T handles internal storage is a little odd...
Older devices have the "internal SD" formatted as FAT32.
Newer Android devices have this trick called emulated storage, where a FUSE module does special permissions magic to allow /data/media (on an ext4 system) to be mounted to /sdcard
The T is a little odd in that instead of using /data/media, it has int_storage or something like that, which is then remapped via FUSE to /sdcard. It's the only device I know of to have the internal SD formatted as ext4 but not "unified" internal storage (e.g. /sdcard is just a directory under /data)
Didn't really understand any of that.
But it's nice to know that I was right and it does handle the storage a little strangely (I deduced that much from your post at least).