[Q] ? how can I overcome the 4gb file system limitation - Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I would like to repurpose my N1 as a little WiFi capable storage device. I have been combing the internet for solutions and tried a few things. I can't seem to get a combination of android OS partition scheme and file system to accomplish this. Can somebody point me in the right direction. I am not picky about any of the details but it would be nice to be readable from windows. I am currently messing around with ext4 and using ext2fsd but I am not really getting anywhere.
Thanks if u can help me out

dasbooter said:
I would like to repurpose my N1 as a little WiFi capable storage device. I have been combing the internet for solutions and tried a few things. I can't seem to get a combination of android OS partition scheme and file system to accomplish this. Can somebody point me in the right direction. I am not picky about any of the details but it would be nice to be readable from windows. I am currently messing around with ext4 and using ext2fsd but I am not really getting anywhere.
Thanks if u can help me out
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You can flash a custom ROM (I recommend Evervolv KitKat) and use a2sd. Then you'll have up to 32 G on the external sdcard (which becomes a virtual "internal" sdcard.
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PhilipTD said:
You can flash a custom ROM (I recommend Evervolv KitKat) and use a2sd. Then you'll have up to 32 G on the external sdcard (which becomes a virtual "internal" sdcard.
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Hey thanks I already had a custom rom going with jelly bean and have a ext4 partition with a2sd install but it to make it visible even to linux seems to be a challenge and I dont know why. I also seem to get errors when downloading files bigger than 4gb which makes no sense. I dunno maybe i should get an otg card reader and put the old 4gb back in the phone and put the 32 gb in the card reader and use paragon software. Any body think this might work or have another suggestion.

dasbooter said:
Hey thanks I already had a custom rom going with jelly bean and have a ext4 partition with a2sd install but it to make it visible even to linux seems to be a challenge and I dont know why. I also seem to get errors when downloading files bigger than 4gb which makes no sense. I dunno maybe i should get an otg card reader and put the old 4gb back in the phone and put the 32 gb in the card reader and use paragon software. Any body think this might work or have another suggestion.
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How about partitions sizes?
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PhilipTD said:
How about partitions sizes?
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Thnks again, The fat 32 partition is aprox 6gb and the ext4 partition is aprox 22gb so ya the ext4 is much bigger than the fat32 but that is what would make it practically useful. Right now I seem to be getting i/o errors around the 4 gb size area of a torrent? for a vmware image of a linux distro.

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[Q] Sense ROM without partitioned SD?

Hi,
The main reason i rooted my old g1 is because i thought it would be nice if i could have the any working sense ROM flashed on it.
Upon research I discovered that i needed to partition my sd card to successfully flash a sense rom, which was a problem for me, because whenever i tried moving ext2 to ext3 or ext3 to ext4 it would say "error- run fs ext3/ext4 via console".
Is this because im using the 128mb sd that came with the phone or is it something else?
If it's something that i dont have the mental capacity to fix myself then I was wondering if was any half decent sense ROM that works without any sd partitions.
Thanks in advance.
Tuptup said:
Hi,
The main reason i rooted my old g1 is because i thought it would be nice if i could have the any working sense ROM flashed on it.
Upon research I discovered that i needed to partition my sd card to successfully flash a sense rom, which was a problem for me, because whenever i tried moving ext2 to ext3 or ext3 to ext4 it would say "error- run fs ext3/ext4 via console".
Is this because im using the 128mb sd that came with the phone or is it something else?
If it's something that i dont have the mental capacity to fix myself then I was wondering if was any half decent sense ROM that works without any sd partitions.
Thanks in advance.
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Maybe there are some old sense ROMs which doesnt need ext4 , i don't know, but the best fully functioning Sense ROM for the g1 is DroidEris and this ROM need MTD.
128MB is too little
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Thanks =) Although i have no idea what MTD is, ill use a 4gb sd and see if i can find a decent sense rom that ill partition my sd with =)
Tuptup said:
Thanks =) Although i have no idea what MTD is, ill use a 4gb sd and see if i can find a decent sense rom that ill partition my sd with =)
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Here is a great tutorial to patition your SD card:
http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-manually-partition-your-sd-card-for-android-apps2sd/
and here is how to MTD :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7061471#post7061471
well droideris runs good without swap lol also mtd if you find how to use it not sure but the new base we are on today should be ok with ext2 needs tseting though xD if not find that 4gb sd card ^^

[Q] [Webtop] Next steps: More space or newer Ubuntu? (Poll effectively closed)

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The poll is now being treated as closed. As such, since I would be unlikely to look back after moving to a newer Ubuntu, and since the two efforts are effectively incompatible (unless I wanted to try my hand at flashing a new /osh which... no), I'm concluding that there are enough users who are happy enough staying on Ubuntu 9.04 that I'll work on the union filesystem first before moving on to newer versions of Ubuntu.
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I believe I'm getting close to having a reasonable "first pass" of having a working Ubuntu on the Atrix. The interesting question becomes: what next? There are two steps I can see right now:
Get a FUSE kernel module working so that we can get a union mount for our modified Linux so that we can have more effective space. Note: this process is almost guaranteed not to work with the next option.
Now that source code is available for the Ubuntu files (I need to find out if we have everything we need, mind you), port newer releases of Ubuntu (starting with either 9.10 or 10.04).
Users, what would you like to see? The numbers at "closing" were 48/47/3.
i think it would be cool to see a 10.04 ubuntu - but what can be done with that without very much effective space? if you could find a way to expand the storage with an ubuntu port (even if it's after you port ubuntu, then find a way to increase storage) i think that makes more sense than trying to improve the inherently crippled current webtop setup
It would be great to see more storage! That is the biggest limitation at this point..
im all for 10.04 or 10.10
Wouldn't you require more space for this though?
seven2099 said:
Wouldn't you require more space for this though?
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Not really. Remember that the 1 GB filesystem file is a copy of the partition that Motorola ships. Upgrading would be swapping out Ubuntu 9.04 packages for Ubuntu x.yy packages, so it would be a matter of trading space, not strictly losing it.
Sogarth said:
Not really. Remember that the 1 GB filesystem file is a copy of the partition that Motorola ships. Upgrading would be swapping out Ubuntu 9.04 packages for Ubuntu x.yy packages, so it would be a matter of trading space, not strictly losing it.
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Forgive my stupidity but... you are reffering to the 1gb file called Ubuntu.disk right?
Meaning, I can move that to SD to leave more space internally?
seven2099 said:
Forgive my stupidity but... you are reffering to the 1gb file called Ubuntu.disk right?
Meaning, I can move that to SD to leave more space internally?
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I'm pointing out that ubuntu.disk is 1 GB, but once it's created, it has no reliance on /osh. So as long as the Ubuntu x.yy installation is < 1 GB like the current 9.04 installation is, the space issue won't get any worse. No better, though.
And, no, moving ubuntu.disk to /mnt/sdcard won't work. If it did, I would have created a partition on the SD card to start with.
NUKE webtop and make it run ubuntu Pure ubuntu with the option to show it on the atrix screen too HEHE !
union mount! Also I bet this has non-ubuntu implications (internal and sd card as 1 mount point would be hot). Also why do we need a newer version other than to say "i have ubuntu x now which version number is greater than y was". What features are there in 10 over 9?
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Also why do we need a newer version other than to say "i have ubuntu x now which version number is greater than y was". What features are there in 10 over 9?
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I dunno. Minor things like Firefox 4, chromium browser, stuff like that.
once again... what was wrong with firefox 3 other than 4 > 3? just being the devil's advocate here.
tical2k said:
once again... what was wrong with firefox 3 other than 4 > 3? just being the devil's advocate here.
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You're asking somebody who's typing this from IE9, so I can't help you there. But, interest seems high, and it is true that newer software isn't available as easily for older versions of the operating system.
Would it be possible to move it to SD card if there was an ext2 partition there? For example, on my 16gb SD card, have a 14gb fat32 partition, then a 2gb ext2 partition, with your mod mounting the latter instead of a file on /data.
I started playing with this idea yesterday, but ran out of time before I got it to mount properly in Android... Do you think it's feasible?
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lindsaytheflint said:
Would it be possible to move it to SD card if there was an ext2 partition there? For example, on my 16gb SD card, have a 14gb fat32 partition, then a 2gb ext2 partition, with your mod mounting the latter instead of a file on /data.
I started playing with this idea yesterday, but ran out of time before I got it to mount properly in Android... Do you think it's feasible?
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From the been there, done that file, no, it's not feasible at this point in time. Sorry.
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Sogarth said:
From the been there, done that file, no, it's not feasible at this point in time. Sorry.
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Ah I see... What about symlinking a whole lot of stuff over to /cache, since it's a 600mb partition doing not much? I'm guessing you've probably tried that avenue too?
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molotof said:
NUKE webtop and make it run ubuntu Pure ubuntu with the option to show it on the atrix screen too HEHE !
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Actually, here's a question: based upon a link another user pointed out, the other Linux loaders use VNC to display the Linux desktop on their Android screen. That's not enough?
lindsaytheflint said:
Ah I see... What about symlinking a whole lot of stuff over to /cache, since it's a 600mb partition doing not much? I'm guessing you've probably tried that avenue too?
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No, actually, since the initial idea didn't involve use FUSE to be able to do crazy filesystem tricks. I thought /cache was needed, though? If we can find space here and there, it might be possible to decrease the footprint in /data a bit so that people aren't squeezed so tightly on space.
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No, actually, since the initial idea didn't involve use FUSE to be able to do crazy filesystem tricks. I thought /cache was needed, though? If we can find space here and there, it might be possible to decrease the footprint in /data a bit so that people aren't squeezed so tightly on space.
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/cache is only used for temp downloads (market apk installs, email attachment previews, etc) and OTA updates. The temp downloads don't take up much space - less than 50mb usually, but the OTA updates would probably be a a bit bigger. But who uses those right?
I'm one of those greedy people who have over 1gb of junk on their /data partition

[Q] Convert SDCard to MainMem so External_SD becomes SDCard?

Hi there,
Is there a way to make the add the internal SD card to the main memmory? So that there would not be an internal SD card anymore?
I do not mean swapping the moutpoints around so my External_SD becomes my primary and my internal my second....
I want to get rid of the internal one alltogether (adding it to main memory).
I figure that I'll have to format the storage in a certain way... would that do it?
Can someone tell me step by step what to do?
I do have CW-mod installed.
I did search the forum, but couldnt find anything conclusive. Just hints that it should be possible...
If there already is a thread where all this is explained, please point me to it, because I couldn't find it.
Thanks,
Pfeffa-rah
I don't think this is possible , never heard of someone who did it
I have no idea how to do that. My question is... why would you want to do that?
Having an internal_sd partition adds the benefit of having big app data (such as those in Gameloft games) sit in a very fast partition and still be called "sddata".
Also, it's mountable via PC so everything in there can still be backed up. So it's best of both worlds really.
This was discussed some time ago in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1013575
There were ideas on how to remount the cards at boot. I myself come to the conclusion that since more phones start to behave in this way, app developers will have to start dealing with it. It just sucks they are mostly slow on the uptake. My main problem was the Spotify cache location being hard coded so I resorted to hack the Spotify apk.
PS. salisbury_steak: What is it with people like you that every time someone has a question on how to do something, your immediate response is "But why would you want to do that?!".
sorech said:
PS. salisbury_steak: What is it with people like you that every time someone has a question on how to do something, your immediate response is "But why would you want to do that?!".
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That was actually an honest question.
I wanted to understand why he wanted to do it. (i.e. What would be the advantages of it.) There was no supposed sarcasm in there.
how about the ability to install 5x more applications?
Having that stupid 5gb partition as sd card and the real sd card as a sub folder is retarded...
My 32GB class 10 cars is a lot faster than the internal one.
The internal 5gb memory is MUCH TOO SMALL!!! Most apps don't allow you to store data on the external card. If you like me and many others install some games that download aditional data + a nav app that downloads maps for europe + some streaming music app like wimp that can cache music for offline play then you are ****ed with LG's setup.
The setup CM7 uses solves the main problem but effectively wastes the 5gb by mounting it at emmc where like 0,0001% of apps are able to access it.
So adding those otherwise wasted 5gb to the main memory would be great. But i have not seen any solution to that yet :-(
Thank you Gensplejs for explaining that to them. I had no idea how to reply to that since it seemed so obvious to me.
This thread was ment to be a question about how to do it and not to discuss the usefullness of it. That is where I lost the way in other threads...
So, thanks for your replys all (realy).
But now, back On-Topic:
How would I do it?
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Please don't blame me if you tried it and you screwed up your phone.. It's your choice...
Well, I don't know if this would work, but this is how I would do it (accepting the fact that I'd loose almost 2GB of /data's free space):
1. Format your internal sd card to the same file system as your /data partition is (ext3 or ext4)
2. Copy every file from /data 1:1 to your sdcard (cp -R /data/* /sdcard)
3. I don't know when and where the partitions are mounted (maybe init.rc??)...anyways change the target there and let /data point to the internal sd card partition (so it is ensured that it is mounted automatically to the new location)
4. Reboot and keep your fingers crossed
I think i figured how to do it in theory. First we need some free space at our microsd to cp /data. Then we should repartition with fdisk /dev/block/mmcblk0p8 and p9 into one partition and change vold.fstab to mount only externalsd at /sdcard as we do when we swap partitions. In theory it should work but i cant test it right now or make a script since ve gone vacations and i dont have a pc to restore in case of error
I agree.. certain apps wont store to sdcard.. its better to use the whole 8gb as phone storage, and use external sdcard as default sdcard.
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What ive found till now is that sd swapping is easy. You can do it by tweaking only vold.fstab. But repatriationing is a pain in the ass. Looks like lg has "faulty" partitions or something and to do it you must mesh up with with almost half partitions.
I had to rebuilt boot lgdrm recovery data and sdcard to make em half work. So it probably isnt worth the trouble. Also I think init.rc is built on the boot. So just remounting internal sd to /data wont work either.
sectors is not space
it says 7996, so thats 8GB
i saw it in hurry. the brain sometimes belives whats he want to belive
sorry
New to XDA
Hello everybody,
I'm new to android and i'm trying to find out how to solve the problem posted in this thread.
I see you've got the awnser but i don't know how to do this.
I've been searching google and XDA for ever but i just can't find the awnser.
Could you make a step by step howto or point out to a post how to do this.
I mean converting your external sd to ext4 and change the mounting points.
I'm a complete nood, i didn't get adb to work on my pc, ext4 recovery is not for the p990 2x.
I've read something abbout changing fstap for swapping te mounting points for sdcard and emmc, witch is also ok for me, but formating to ext4... wel i frankly don't know how to do this.
I'm quite stuk on this.
The only partitioning experience i've got is Gparted in Ubuntu or repartitioning in Windows 7.
Thans in andvance!
Greetz,
JMG
http://android.modaco.com/topic/347...-partitions/page__gopid__1821791#entry1821791
check this
you can expand data partition , but there is a limitation of 1.75gb
Thanks davjan
Thanks davjan,
As far i can see it's indeed not worth it.
I wil have to go on and try to find out how to change the filesystem to ext4 and swap the internal and external sd.
That way i get more usable space instead of a big datastorage witch cannot contain program data.
But thanks for the quick reply.
Jean Michel Gaar said:
Thanks davjan,
As far i can see it's indeed not worth it.
I wil have to go on and try to find out how to change the filesystem to ext4 and swap the internal and external sd.
That way i get more usable space instead of a big datastorage witch cannot contain program data.
But thanks for the quick reply.
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what rom are you using? is your phone rooted?
swapping internal with internal sd is very easy
and most of the roms here on xda are ext4 , if you instal one of them they autoconvert to ext4
Jean Michel Gaar said:
Thanks davjan,
As far i can see it's indeed not worth it.
I wil have to go on and try to find out how to change the filesystem to ext4 and swap the internal and external sd.
That way i get more usable space instead of a big datastorage witch cannot contain program data.
But thanks for the quick reply.
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I you read the link provided you'll see that it makes what you want: grow internal filesystem = lower SDcard usable space. The only thing is that it doesn't seem possible is to use the whole space: system limitation. 75Markus tried high /system and /data values and phone didn't work.
See in his Mediafire Folder, 'Nvflash + guide for changing Partitions:
http://www.mediafire.com/75markus
Ext4 is now common with custom ROMs (in fact all of them).
You should search in sd-ext partition system, which was designed to artificially expand filesystem on older phones using an 'ext' partition. I didn't heard anybody using this on O2X.
If you use CyanogenMod based ROMs, your external card will be mounted ad /sdcard by default.
Switching internal and external SD
Thanks guy's,
I'll check it out.
I've been using cyanogenmod 7.1 stable with vorkkernel 20110208.
But that gave me batterydrains while using maps and nextvid ate the same time (while i'm driving).
Now i'm trying MIUI 1.11.11 with latest swift extreme.
But MIUI is very buggy so i'm thinking of going back to CM.
The only thing is that my phone won't boot with the latest vorkkernel.

Ext partition

Ok this might be a noob question but im going to ask it anyway..
Whats the point of creating one on the sd card?
Is the only benefit that i can move my apps to the sdcard with tools like link2sd?
Or can i also let the phone think i have more internal memory?
Im running the jellybam rom but i cant find any info about ext partitions, anyone who can explain it to me?
Thanks and enjoy your weekend guys
Coldstream said:
Ok this might be a noob question but im going to ask it anyway..
Whats the point of creating one on the sd card?
Is the only benefit that i can move my apps to the sdcard with tools like link2sd?
Or can i also let the phone think i have more internal memory?
Im running the jellybam rom but i cant find any info about ext partitions, anyone who can explain it to me?
Thanks and enjoy your weekend guys
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I don't know that there is an advantage for ext3 with a flash drive or SD card. See:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_f2fs_exfat&num=1
The article is mostly about f2fs vs exFAT, but some comments included.
"Earlier Phoronix tests have shown that F2FS from flash storage is already generally competitive with the popular Btrfs and EXT4 Linux file-systems."
"Seeing a user-space implementation of the Microsoft file-system outperforming the in-kernel "Flash-Friendly File-System" came as a shock."
With already slow SD transfer rates due to the media itself, I doubt you'll see an improvement in system performance. Maybe someone here has a better idea. I don't. But the worst you can do is nothing.
My only concern would be hooking up the 970 to a Windows machine; "stock", Windows may not see the extra ext2/3 partition. You'd need Linux to do that.
Hmm i've readed the article but cant find any info about what im looking for..
Anyone else who can help me?

SanDisk Ultra 64GB microSDXC Class 10 Formatting

Just got the card for my i9305 and need advice from you guys formatting it. I'll usually put game files, music video, movies etc in it and I don't really see any file that could be larger than 4GB (if there are do give me an example). Now my question is what should I format it to? FAT32? NTFS? exFAT?. I'd probably go with exFAT cuz then you can put files larger than 4GB but I've heard that exFAT has issue getting the file corrupted and read many people complaining about it in this forum. NTFS can also consume files larger than 4GB but I've never heard anyone formatting it to NTFS. Now FAT32 is what most people are preferring. What do you guys think? Please explain this issue briefly so that I can take a decision.
Thank You!!
Ishan Sardar said:
Just got the card for my i9305 and need advice from you guys formatting it. I'll usually put game files, music video, movies etc in it and I don't really see any file that could be larger than 4GB (if there are do give me an example). Now my question is what should I format it to? FAT32? NTFS? exFAT?. I'd probably go with exFAT cuz then you can put files larger than 4GB but I've heard that exFAT has issue getting the file corrupted and read many people complaining about it in this forum. NTFS can also consume files larger than 4GB but I've never heard anyone formatting it to NTFS. Now FAT32 is what most people are preferring. What do you guys think? Please explain this issue briefly so that I can take a decision.
Thank You!!
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exFAT vs. FAT32; exFAT always wins. And you can't be sure that you can read NTFS in Android.
CalInTheZone said:
exFAT vs. FAT32; exFAT always wins. And you can't be sure that you can read NTFS in Android.
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okay..but what about the corrupting file issue? did u ever face that kind of problem??
Ishan Sardar said:
okay..but what about the corrupting file issue? did u ever face that kind of problem??
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Never ever had a problem with a SD card if you don't count the sh*tt* Sony cr*p that I had the "pleasure" to own...
Ishan Sardar said:
okay..but what about the corrupting file issue? did u ever face that kind of problem??
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I think what you're talking about is people switching from Samsung-based ROMs to AOSP-based ROMs. Microsoft is charging licensing fees for exFAT drivers, and while there are open source drivers available, none of them can be included in Linux or Linux-based projects (at least not in any official manner *hint* *hint*) due to patents that Microsoft have on the exFAT filesystem. The result of this is that people think their stuff is gone because Android reports it as uninitialised or corrupted, when in reality Android simply can't read it. Current CyanogenMod kernels (and I think Samsung-based as well) have FUSE support, which is a requirement of the current open source implementations *hint* *hint*.
Rekoil said:
I think what you're talking about is people switching from Samsung-based ROMs to AOSP-based ROMs. Microsoft is charging licensing fees for exFAT drivers, and while there are open source drivers available, none of them can be included in Linux or Linux-based projects (at least not in any official manner *hint* *hint*) due to patents that Microsoft have on the exFAT filesystem. The result of this is that people think their stuff is gone because Android reports it as uninitialised or corrupted, when in reality Android simply can't read it. Current CyanogenMod kernels (and I think Samsung-based as well) have FUSE support, which is a requirement of the current open source implementations *hint* *hint*.
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that was really informative and useful thank you. I just didn't know that was the reason behind peoples complaining. Now I'm gonna have to ask you again...I know a very little or almost nothing about samsung's way of development, fuse support, microsoft charges etc etc cuz I've been a sony user for a very long time and this is my first change. so If I format my sd card to exFAT and install AOSP based rom then my file system is tend to be corrupted? is there any way to make my android read the data after I install AOSP based rom?
Ishan Sardar said:
that was really informative and useful thank you. I just didn't know that was the reason behind peoples complaining. Now I'm gonna have to ask you again...I know a very little or almost nothing about samsung's way of development, fuse support, microsoft charges etc etc cuz I've been a sony user for a very long time and this is my first change. so If I format my sd card to exFAT and install AOSP based rom then my file system is tend to be corrupted? is there any way to make my android read the data after I install AOSP based rom?
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Yes, definitely, but I personally do not know how, you will have to look around, it might be difficult. I would suggest looking at how PhilZ custom recovery works, it has exFAT support.
If you simply install an AOSP-based (like CyanogenMod) without modifications you will not be able to read an exFAT formatted card at all.
Rekoil said:
Yes, definitely, but I personally do not know how, you will have to look around, it might be difficult. I would suggest looking at how PhilZ custom recovery works, it has exFAT support.
If you simply install an AOSP-based (like CyanogenMod) without modifications you will not be able to read an exFAT formatted card at all.
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ah way too much hassle to find out how exFAT works on different roms besides I'll be changing roms quite a lot as I love to play around with my phone...I think I'll just go for FAT32 for now besides what could possibly be larger than 4GB if I'm only gonna put all the regular stuff like music, movie, games etc? anyway could you please tell me how to format it to FAT32? cuz mine is formatted to exFAT by default and I don't see any option in my pc to format it to FAT32, it's just NTFS and exFAT.
Ishan Sardar said:
ah way too much hassle to find out how exFAT works on different roms besides I'll be changing roms quite a lot as I love to play around with my phone...I think I'll just go for FAT32 for now besides what could possibly be larger than 4GB if I'm only gonna put all the regular stuff like music, movie, games etc? anyway could you please tell me how to format it to FAT32? cuz mine is formatted to exFAT by default and I don't see any option in my pc to format it to FAT32, it's just NTFS and exFAT.
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I am assuming you are using Windows as Linux and OS X do not hide the option to use FAT32. Open a command prompt (cmd) and type "format /FS:FAT32 X:", where X is the drive letter of your SD card.
Rekoil said:
I am assuming you are using Windows as Linux and OS X do not hide the option to use FAT32. Open a command prompt (cmd) and type "format /FS:FAT32 X:", where X is the drive letter of your SD card.
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damn man it took a good 3 hours....its so damn slow and after all that time now its saying the volume is too big for FAT32
any other way to format it to FAT32 safely?
Ishan Sardar said:
damn man it took a good 3 hours....its so damn slow and after all that time now its saying the volume is too big for FAT32
any other way to format it to FAT32 safely?
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Your problem is your allocation size that is the problem with FAT32 when larger than 32GB, that is a big problem with MS standart software; it can't do it.
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm is what you need and remember with large allocation sizes you don't want to but small files on the drive.
CalInTheZone said:
Your problem is your allocation size that is the problem with FAT32 when larger than 32GB, that is a big problem with MS standart software; it can't do it.
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm is what you need and remember with large allocation sizes you don't want to but small files on the drive.
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I tried the GUI app once before and it formatted my sd card to FAT32 instantly then I put it in my s3 and it recognized the card too then I formatted the card using my s3 again just to make sure it stays at FAT32 and lol it's gone back to exFAT again. Is this normal?
One more question when I start the gui it gives me several allocation unit size 512 to 65536 what should I select? Also after I format my sd to FAT32 will it behave normally? (I mean this was ridiculously fast while I mentioned the windows one took 3 hours lol) can I fill it up till the last bit? If the phone recognize the SD it means I won't have any problem with installing and rom or anything right?
Ishan Sardar said:
damn man it took a good 3 hours....its so damn slow and after all that time now its saying the volume is too big for FAT32
any other way to format it to FAT32 safely?
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Look at "format /?" in a command prompt. It will tell you all the flags you can use, there should be one for quick format. And there are numerous programs which do this, just Google it.
Try EASEUS Partition Master 9.1.1 Home Edition
There's a newer version but I used 9.1.1, you can get it from filehippo.com.
If you delete the partition in a partition manager software, do not try to format with Microsoft Windows Disk Management.
This can damage the drive!
Default cluster size is 32kB for 32GB to 2TB
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140365
IrfanCore said:
Try EASEUS Partition Master 9.1.1 Home Edition
There's a newer version but I used 9.1.1, you can get it from filehippo.com.
If you delete the partition in a partition manager software, do not try to format with Microsoft Windows Disk Management.
This can damage the drive!
Default cluster size is 32kB for 32GB to 2TB
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140365
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Yeah... do not use EASEUS Partition Master. There are, as I said, numerous much much simpler softwares that can do this, not to mention the fact that "format" can do everything you want, given the correct arguments.
Rekoil said:
Yeah... do not use EASEUS Partition Master. There are, as I said, numerous much much simpler softwares that can do this, not to mention the fact that "format" can do everything you want, given the correct arguments.
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i suggest try using HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool to format it. remember to use usb card reader if not format tool cannot detect your SD card.

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