Hi,
I know that for a USB-OTG stick can use Paragon to make exFAT and NTFS work.
How about microSD and exFAT for LOS 18.1 (/e/OS) on S10?
It doesn't work for me and If that doesn't work in general, then I would mind using NTFS or ext4 format.
I've also tried both and it doesn't work when I format it with Linux.
When I format it with Android built in formating option, then it does it with FAT32. I've tried to copy a 8GB File onto the SD and it give's me the impression that it was successful (no error message) when it actually wasn't. This is just a fun fact
My linux refused to copy a 8GB File to SD via MTP. This is how it should be with FAT32.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
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I wantto Format my sdcard to exfat... yes or no ？
a546109781 said:
I wantto Format my sdcard to exfat... yes or no ？
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To use link2SD yes 4.3 Supports it I think
Actually I am 4.2 and tried Ext3 didn't work but Ext2 and Fat32 Work fine
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I wantto Format my sdcard to exfat... yes or no ？
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All cards 32gb or less (SDHC cards) come formatted in Fat32.(Part of SDHC spec) This includes a file limit of 4gb max for a single file.
All cards 64gb or more (SDXC cards which the XZR supports) come preformatted in exFat (Part of SDXC spec). This does not have a 4gb file limitation.
The stock Sony Firmware supports exFat. (I bought a 64gb SDXD formatted with exFat and plugged it in and worked right away). Most recoveries do to. (TWRP does at least).
However, I flashed CM11 onto my XZR. CM11 does _NOT_ support exFat. Initially I backed up and reformatted my card in Fat32. Angry with the 4gb file limitation (I have many 720p and 1080p movies over 4gb..) I actually took the microSD card out, used a adapter and hooked it up to a Linux system (Ubuntu 13.10 in my case) and used gParted to format the card to EXT4 filesystem. EXT4 is a filesystem most Linux machines use and support natively. This is actually the filesystem most newer Android device use for their internal SDCard / Data partitions! I popped the card back in, CM11 reads it perfectly! And I was able to copy files over 4gb to the device!
So its not a hardware thing since the XZR is SDXC compatible. Just formatting / partition time issue.
Just my 2 Cents.
akash4357 said:
All cards 32gb or less (SDHC cards) come formatted in Fat32.(Part of SDHC spec) This includes a file limit of 4gb max for a single file.
All cards 64gb or more (SDXC cards which the XZR supports) come preformatted in exFat (Part of SDXC spec). This does not have a 4gb file limitation.
The stock Sony Firmware supports exFat. (I bought a 64gb SDXD formatted with exFat and plugged it in and worked right away). Most recoveries do to. (TWRP does at least).
However, I flashed CM10.1 onto my XZR. CM10.2 does _NOT_ support exFat. Initially I backed up and reformatted my card in Fat32. Angry with the 4gb file limitation (I have many 720p and 1080p movies over 4gb..) I actually took the microSD card out, used a adapter and hooked it up to a Linux system (Ubuntu 13.10 in my case) and used gParted to format the card to EXT4 filesystem. EXT4 is a filesystem most Linux machines use and support natively. This is actually the filesystem most newer Android device use for their internal SDCard / Data partitions! I popped the card back in, CM10.2 reads it perfectly! And I was able to copy files over 4gb to the device!
So its not a hardware thing since the XZR is SDXC compatible. Just formatting / partition time issue.
Just my 2 Cents.
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thank you try now
Hi,
I've stock ICS (rooted, with Kowalski kernel M1) on my P990. I've a 32GB SD card, and I wonder if I can mount it automatically with ext4, NTFS of exFAT file system. Currently it only accepts FAT32, anything else will be unmounted automatically.
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I've stock ICS (rooted, with Kowalski kernel M1) on my P990. I've a 32GB SD card, and I wonder if I can mount it automatically with ext4, NTFS of exFAT file system. Currently it only accepts FAT32, anything else will be unmounted automatically.
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I know for sure that NTFS does not work.
eXFATshould work... You should check if there are patches for this.
Is your current card with Fat 32 working with Windows PC, this will check if your card is not out of order.
Some of you might already know that I accidentally formatted my 64gb SDCard to ext4. I tried to format it again back to exFAT but I can't. Windows isn't detecting it. Tried different applications like MiniTool Partition and still no go. Tried to use Ubuntu on a virtual machine and still nothing. My last hope is to use a kernel supporting ext4. So how do I implement ext4 support?
I'd like to remove my external SD card and use my Linux (RHEL/CentOS) workstation to copy files to and from it. The card has not been encrypted and is 6¤ GB in size.
Unfortunately the workstation did not recognize the file format, Solid Explorer on the tablet does not tell me which file system is used and Googling suggests it may be a special flash file system suitable for SD cards, presumably not available on desktop Linux distributions.
Does anyone have information?
Probably exfat.
Diskinfo will tell you what it is.
Should be FAT or exFAT
Thank you, have downloaded DiskInfo from the Play Store to my phones but not yet to the tablet. I know RHEL/CentOS has drivers for MSDOS (FAT) and vFAT but do not know about exFAT.
hga89 said:
Thank you, have downloaded DiskInfo from the Play Store to my phones but not yet to the tablet. I know RHEL/CentOS has drivers for MSDOS (FAT) and vFAT but do not know about exFAT.
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It is definitely exfat and it is an exfat flavor that can't be duplicated on Windows according to Microsloth. Although you should be able to read/write the card from a Windows PC do not try to format it on a PC. The M/S exfat format does not handle large filesystem cards.
You can read/write and I think format the card (if needed) from Linux using exfat-fuse. I built it from source the other day, took all of three minutes. Good stuff!
Depending on your package manager you should be able to search on exfat or fuse and find the drivers.
BTW I did some experimenting with card filesystems since the internal memory is supposedly ext4. I formatted a memory card ext3 and the S7 couldn't read it.
Would have been nice to have a standard portable filesystem available instead of having to use something proprietary that google has to pay Microslop for.
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It is definitely exfat and it is an exfat flavor that can't be duplicated on Windows according to Microsloth. Although you should be able to read/write the card from a Windows PC do not try to format it on a PC. The M/S exfat format does not handle large filesystem cards.
You can read/write and I think format the card (if needed) from Linux using exfat-fuse. I built it from source the other day, took all of three minutes. Good stuff!
Depending on your package manager you should be able to search on exfat or fuse and find the drivers.
BTW I did some experimenting with card filesystems since the internal memory is supposedly ext4. I formatted a memory card ext3 and the S7 couldn't read it.
Would have been nice to have a standard portable filesystem available instead of having to use something proprietary that google has to pay Microslop for.
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Have had no issues formatting 64gb sd cards as exFAT in Windows. I see no reason why it wouldn't be compatible.
It's a Windows format that has been incorporated to work on Samsung Android devices.
As for Google I don't think exfat is yet natively supported on AOSP unless it's been added recently.
You were right, a small SD card used VFAT while a 64 GB card used exFAT. The former can be read natively on RHEL/CentOS and there are third-party drivers for the latter.
Thank you, DiskInfo looks like a very nice utility.
Does the s2 support NTFS SD cards?
No, but you can compile support into the kernel. It's under File System -> NTFS Support in 'make menuconfig'. I'll probably release my kernel soon.
Just for the record: It does support ExFAT.
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Just for the record: It does support ExFAT.
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I was thinking along the same lines, for what reason would you format an sdcard to NTFS for use in Android? It'll cause no end of issues.
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I was thinking along the same lines, for what reason would you format an sdcard to NTFS for use in Android? It'll cause no end of issues.
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Maybe he thinks he'll get better transfer speeds with NTFS?
ExFat. That's grand for HD contents. Can I format to ExFat with the s2 or is a PC necessary?
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ExFat. That's grand for HD contents. Can I format to ExFat with the s2 or is a PC necessary?
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Go into storage settings and select format. Most already come formatted exFAT.
You sure, it will format to ExFat and not Fat32?
Also, can the s2 read ExFat and/or NTFS via OTG?
I currently use NTFS SD cards for HD content on my Nvidia Shield tablet (no root).
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You sure, it will format to ExFat and not Fat32?
Also, can the s2 read ExFat and/or NTFS via OTG?
I currently use NTFS SD cards for HD content on my Nvidia Shield tablet (no root).
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Yep, any large capacity memory cards are formatted to exFat and almost always come formatted as such.
The kernel has native support for exFAT.