I wondered if its normal that none Windows 7's
own tools (GUI format, dos box FORMAT.exe and
diskpart.exe) are able to format it as FAT32, (only
as NTFS and exFAT).
I was able to use Easyus 9.1.1 and it formatted fine
there. After restoring the data from the hard drive,
the card is seen fine with its correct size.
I wish hboot and the OS understood sdcard as ext2/3/4
file system, because FAT32 on 64gb is really wasteful.
fuzzynco said:
I wondered if its normal that none Windows 7's
own tools (GUI format, dos box FORMAT.exe and
diskpart.exe) are able to format it as FAT32, (only
as NTFS and exFAT).
I was able to use Easyus 9.1.1 and it formatted fine
there. After restoring the data from the hard drive,
the card is seen fine with its correct size.
I wish hboot and the OS understood sdcard as ext2/3/4
file system, because FAT32 on 64gb is really wasteful.
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Welcome to windows. There is a reason why but honestly I forget what it was. Windows has a size limit of 32Gb...hence it being called fat 32
Ironically the format tool built into Mac osx will format fat 32 to any size drive. I had a 250GB hard drive completely formatted fat 32 at one point. Long story.
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nosympathy said:
Welcome to windows. There is a reason why but honestly I forget what it was. Windows has a size limit of 32Gb...hence it being called fat 32
Ironically the format tool built into Mac osx will format fat 32 to any size drive. I had a 250GB hard drive completely formatted fat 32 at one point. Long story.
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I believe it's the way that an sd card is set to reach those high levels of memory. The blocks are different. Personally, NTFS works better and causes no lags.
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Haha... That is so not why it's called fat32
32bits in the table identifier...
I'd go into more detail, wikipedia should cover the rest. Not sure why you're having trouble with windows formatting it? I don't have a 64gb card to test with... Could be the card readers fault too.
-.|.- Rezound, ics
Not sure I understand the issue. If for some reason your computer has trouble formatting it, just put it in your phone and it does it for you.
As another user said, windows will not format any disk space larger than 40ish GB in any FAT (12,16,32) format. FAT is pretty much useless nowadays anyway. I format even my smallest flash drives 1-2gb in ntfs. Much less problems. Fat just can't handle larger partitions. It was designed when whole programs fit on a 5in floppy and hdd were less than 5gb to take up very little space. Ntfs is faster and more efficient now.
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Yes but the Android OS and bootloader
dumbly insist that the external card
be Fat32 instead of a Linux style EXTx
filesystem without those limitations.
Especially now that the phone can fake
out windows into treating any
filesystem as if it was a windows compatible file system.
I just don't understand why that is still
so?
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MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition
I was also able to format my 64 gb sd card using MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition. Works great in my android tablet now. That exfat thing was driving me crazy.
fuzzynco said:
I wondered if its normal that none Windows 7's
own tools (GUI format, dos box FORMAT.exe and
diskpart.exe) are able to format it as FAT32, (only
as NTFS and exFAT).
I was able to use Easyus 9.1.1 and it formatted fine
there. After restoring the data from the hard drive,
the card is seen fine with its correct size.
I wish hboot and the OS understood sdcard as ext2/3/4
file system, because FAT32 on 64gb is really wasteful.
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Sorry for the stupid question, but do we have to have It formatted in fat32? I think my phone formatted mine in exfat. Btw, I hate windows now. It destroyed all my stuff from my 32gb sd card when I tried to copy everything to my new 64gb.
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1454 said:
Sorry for the stupid question, but do we have to have It formatted in fat32? I think my phone formatted mine in exfat. Btw, I hate windows now. It destroyed all my stuff from my 32gb sd card when I tried to copy everything to my new 64gb.
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How did it destroy your stuff? Are you having trouble using a 64gb card connected to Win7 even after it is formatted fat32?
feralicious said:
How did it destroy your stuff? Are you having trouble using a 64gb card connected to Win7 even after it is formatted fat32?
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On my 32gb card when I put it in my card reader it said it was corrupt and windows tried to fix it. I do recall giving it permission to do so, and it was fine when i took it out of the phone. So now everything is in .chk
I have recovered a few items from the chk format, but none of it is labeled anymore. So it might as well be lost, as it's not worth me going back though and trying to rename all 30gb of information. I have the 64gb card in the phone right now and it seems fine.... Just empty. Haha.
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1454 said:
On my 32gb card when I put it in my card reader it said it was corrupt and windows tried to fix it. I do recall giving it permission to do so, and it was fine when i took it out of the phone. So now everything is in .chk
I have recovered a few items from the chk format, but none of it is labeled anymore. So it might as well be lost, as it's not worth me going back though and trying to rename all 30gb of information. I have the 64gb card in the phone right now and it seems fine.... Just empty. Haha.
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If you haven't done anything to the 32gb card, try using testdisk. It's a free utility that can recover files. I had that happen to my 64gb sd card on a Vista laptop and was able to recover what I needed off it, my nandroids, backups, pics, etc... Also recovered everything off a 500gb drive that all of a sudden Windows was telling me wasn't formatted.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step
I just got my new Win7 laptop so I was wondering if I should hold onto my pos Vista one to read the 64gb card.
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Are there any advantages to formating the SD card to FAT32, other than being able to flash a ROM from it? I don't know if I'll ever flash a ROM that way, but I'm about ready to copy a bunch of tunes and install some GPS maps to my 6 GB SanDisk SDHC, and wonder if there would be any advantage(s).
JimSmith94 said:
Are there any advantages to formating the SD card to FAT32, other than being able to flash a ROM from it? I don't know if I'll ever flash a ROM that way, but I'm about ready to copy a bunch of tunes and install some GPS maps to my 6 GB SanDisk SDHC, and wonder if there would be any advantage(s).
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I could be wrong but I thought it was to make the partitions larger then 2 gig. Just like when Windows 95 was in the transition from going from FAT16 to FAT32. FAT16 can see only 2 gig FAT32 can see up to 32gig. I remember having an 8 gig hard drive that had 4 partitions of 2 gig each with FAT16. FAT32 uses smaller clusters (4 KB for memory up to 8 GB), resulting in 10 to 15 percent more efficient use of space. That is all I am aware of. Maybe someone else has some insight.
So does that mean that my 6GB SDHC is already FAT32? If I put it in a card reader on my PC, will properties tell me what it is?
JimSmith94 said:
So does that mean that my 6GB SDHC is already FAT32? If I put it in a card reader on my PC, will properties tell me what it is?
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If you are seeing 6 gig on the memory card as one partition then yes it should be in FAT32. I think the PC properties will just say FAT.
my 8 gb was fat32 by default. I think all SDHC cards are fat32. I think i seen an option to format to NTFS. Any benefit over that?
Answer for you
dwertz said:
If you are seeing 6 gig on the memory card as one partition then yes it should be in FAT32. I think the PC properties will just say FAT.
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My 2 gig was FAT in the PC, got a 8 gig last weekend and it came FAT32 from Sandisk, as the post above is correct FAT (16) is limited to 2.1 gigs per partition because the File Allocation Table is able to handle only that, but FAT 32 is needed for more than that, and your PC will show that under Properties for the device.
meccanoble said:
my 8 gb was fat32 by default. I think all SDHC cards are fat32. I think i seen an option to format to NTFS. Any benefit over that?
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I am not sure that Windows Mobile could even recognize NTFS.
Not even worth messing with
dwertz said:
I am not sure that Windows Mobile could even recognize NTFS.
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Don't bother as I bet it would not even read or write it, and there would be no advantage anyway as mostly NTFS (Windows NT Filesystem) is mostly for file privilage and security anyway, no speed or capacity help at all.
Pros
1 - Fat32 is compatible with just about any device you would put it in
2 - Uses space more efficiently than Fat
3 - Bootloader can read it
Cons
1 - Has a limit of 2GB filesize.
2 - Not as efficient as NTFS in using space. Will waste space proportional to number of files saved.
Very short list...I'm sure there are some more in both categories.
I keep it Fat32 simply because if I need to trasfer a file from one computer to another (I have an 8GB card) I don't have to worry about compatability issues.
And as someone else said I'm pretty sure NTFS isn't even readable by any phone.
Just wanted to report that the SanDisk 64GB Mobile Ultra MicroSDXC Class 6 Memory Card works fine in the Prime's micro SD slot.
I bought it from Amazon, which included a USB SD card reader for $149.99.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005V7WIA2/ref=oh_o03_s00_i00_details
The first hurdle I ran into is the fact that the card comes pre-formatted with the exFAT file system.
The Asus Transformer Prime does NOT support the exFAT file system.
At first the 16GB MKV file I copied to the card via the included card reader in Windows seemed to list and play the file in DicePlayer fine but seeking past 5 minutes would crash the player. When I copied more files to the card and explored the card via ES file explorer the file explorer listed all the directories as empty, even though when I put the card back into the card reader and read the data through Windows everything appeared and read OK.
However The Prime will read and write fine to an NTFS formatted card. NTFS format is preferable to FAT32 since you can't copy files to a FAT32 partition larger than 4GB. As I have several movie files much bigger than 4GB FAT32 would be unsuitable for my (and most people buying a card of this size) needs.
To format your card as NTFS in Windows:
1.) Put the card into the included full size SD card adapter
2.) Insert the card in a USB reader (one was included with my purchase from Amazon)
3.) Connect the USB reader into the computer and wait for windows to assign it a drive letter.
4.) Open up a command prompt (start menu->"Command Prompt")
5.) Type the following command (replace the x with the drive letter assigned to your SDXC card).
Code:
format /FS:NTFS x:
After I formatted the card as NTFS and copied my data to it everything read and played fine.
Asus licensed drivers from Tuxera, (link), but wasn't clear about exFat being included or not.
The manual does specifically call out NTFS ...
Wonder if exFat might be supported in ICS?
FWIW, exFat is potentially a bit more efficient for flash memory, but at least NTFS is supported.
Cheers, wasn't relishing converting my Fat32-formatted 64GB card to something else to test this out (BTW, Fat32 will take files up to 4GB, not two, but still restricting for HD video).
NZtechfreak said:
Cheers, wasn't relishing converting my Fat32-formatted 64GB card to something else to test this out (BTW, Fat32 will take files up to 4GB, not two, but still restricting for HD video).
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Thanks, was noting the FAT32 file limitation from memory, corrected the OP.
Looks like the Amazon resellers raised their price to $199.99. Best price I can find now is here ($161.36 with tax/shipping) :
http://www.provantage.com/sandisk-sdsdqy-064g-a11a~4SNDK2YU.htm
Isn't there a convert tool to convert FAT to NTFS? Don't know if it works for FAT32 or not, but ...
Ah yes, here it is:
Code:
C:\Users\Me>convert /?
Converts a FAT volume to NTFS.
CONVERT volume /FS:NTFS [/V] [/CvtArea:filename] [/NoSecurity] [/X]
volume Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon), mount point, or volume name.
/FS:NTFS Specifies that the volume will be converted to NTFS.
/V Specifies that Convert will be run in verbose mode.
/CvtArea:filename Specifies a contiguous file in the root directory that will be the place holder for NTFS system files.
/NoSecurity Specifies that the security settings on the converted files and directories allow access by all users.
/X Forces the volume to dismount first if necessary. All open handles to the volume will not be valid.
C:\Users\Me>
I could be wrong but I think convert.exe only works on FAT16 or FAT32, I don't think it works on exFAT. Regardless you're probably better off with a clean format to make sure everything is nice and clean with no unreadable (bad) portions.
I wonder how it would perform (if at all) if you formatted the card as ext4 instead of ntfs.
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Does the card stick out of the side at all? I hear some cards are longer than others and create an annoying bump on the side of the tablet.
quantumalpha said:
Does the card stick out of the side at all? I hear some cards are longer than others and create an annoying bump on the side of the tablet.
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It's raised out about the exact same amount the volume rocker extrudes from the Prime.
JanetPanic said:
I wonder how it would perform (if at all) if you formatted the card as ext4 instead of ntfs.
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Didn't test with ext4, ext4 is a much harder partition format to work with in Windows.
NZtechfreak said:
Cheers, wasn't relishing converting my Fat32-formatted 64GB card to something else to test this out (BTW, Fat32 will take files up to 4GB, not two, but still restricting for HD video).
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You convert fat32 to ntfs with the windows command line " convert" . Did the same with my 32gb sd card
Anyone tried a SDXC in the SD slot of the dock?
TalynOne said:
The Asus Transformer Prime does NOT support the exFAT file system.
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FWIW I got a wild hair and formatted my new micro sd card with exFAT and I am able to read and write using my Prime with ICS
Edit: I also did some tests and it seems write speeds are increased a bit with exFAT over NTFS
I'd love to see some crystaldiskmark numbers from your card!
P.S. also really happy to hear that exFat is working via ICS ... it should be better than ntfs for those that want >4gb files.
can you test out how fast it works? Writing and Reading speed both.
Does anybody here have ubuntu? It supports formatting in all the above file systems, as well as the norm browsing/filetransfer/ and all the such.
I've bought the card a week ago and it worked fine on my Prime without ICS (only got ICS last night; German SKU). Write rates using the supplied SD card adapter on my PC were around 7.5 MB/s.
No need to convert unless you want to use it with a Linux box.
Yatyas said:
FWIW I got a wild hair and formatted my new micro sd card with exFAT and I am able to read and write using my Prime with ICS
Edit: I also did some tests and it seems write speeds are increased a bit with exFAT over NTFS
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Mine also worked with exFat until I put a bunch of data on it. Try copying a 8GB+ mkv to it and see if you can seek/play the entire file. My experience in Honeycomb was that it failed to read the entire file and if I copied more data to the exFAT formatted card then my files started disappearing from any file explorer run on the Prime (though still visible in Windows when connected to a dedicated USB card reader). This was my experience in Honeycomb, haven't re-tested with ICS since everything works great when formatted as NTFS.
TalynOne said:
Just wanted to report that the SanDisk 64GB Mobile Ultra MicroSDXC Class 6 Memory Card works fine in the Prime's micro SD slot.
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After I formatted the card as NTFS and copied my data to it everything read and played fine.
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OH my god are you saying you can read and write all 64 gigs on the card? No issues at all? Is there any disadvantage over using a 32 gig card?
So I figure some people have purchased SDCards other than what HTC provided with our phones...
My question is: What format (based on card size) should we be using?
I had my SDCard (16GB Patriot Class 10) from my Incredible formatted as Ext4 which was causing me a major headache when I wanted to do a Nand Backup. My AmonRa and Clockwork could NOT mount the sdcard. Took me forever to remember that I had formatted it differently. I put in my old 8GB card that was FAT32 and all of a sudden, I could successfully do a Backup.
The catch is that since I am using a 16GB card, when you format (NO Quick Formatting I know) you have multiple options for Allocation Unit sizes. What size should be used?
Reason being is that I formatted the 16GB to FAT32 and default was 32kilobytes as the Allocation size and still I cannot mount the card in AmonRa.
Please help. Thanks.
I have the identical card I believe and I was using Fat32 Default allocation (which ends up being 4k I believe).
Also why were you using ext4? You do know you can partition your card so that you have both right? I can't think of a reason why you would need a 16gb ext4 partition.
What about a 64gb card? I read that someone put one in and had the phone format it and it works fine. No idea how they formatted it, they didn't mention it, so I didn't know there were options until seeing this thread. Got a 64gb card for xmas and would like to pop it in and load it up! Thanks.
feralicious said:
What about a 64gb card? I read that someone put one in and had the phone format it and it works fine. No idea how they formatted it, they didn't mention it, so I didn't know there were options until seeing this thread. Got a 64gb card for xmas and would like to pop it in and load it up! Thanks.
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I read elsewhere in the Rezound Accessories forum that if you format a 64g card FAT32 the phone should be able to handle it.
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Hi there guys
I have been having a problem with 3 sandisk 64gb micro sd cards. I always got them replaced but it is getting frustrating now. Obviously they are formatted in exfat format.
The problem starts when I copy data of over 30 gb. Once i copy the data n the sd is remounted or the phone is restarted i always get the message "damaged sd card" but when i read the card on pc through an adapter it shows the contents ok. So i want to know if anyone can help me so that I may not need to return the card this time around...
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Try to format it first in the phone, then start loading data on it.
131313 said:
Try to format it first in the phone, then start loading data on it.
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I also tried it buddy but none of the methods seem to work .. i also tried formatting it then copying data through sd card reader as well as the phone itself... does it have to do anything with some file system issue or kernel related issue... im on stock kernel rooted...
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also had the same problem. i formatted the card to fat32 with 32xxx sectors with "GUIFORMAT" app for windows, the it works ok.
then after fat conversion, you can try to format the card to exfat using any app (not the windows one) search google, then it might work, didnt try myself as fat32 works great, and i can use it with the script that makes the card the phone memory, so now i got 64gb instead of 11.6gb of phone storage
smaberg said:
also had the same problem. i formatted the card to fat32 with 32xxx sectors with "GUIFORMAT" app for windows, the it works ok.
then after fat conversion, you can try to format the card to exfat using any app (not the windows one) search google, then it might work, didnt try myself as fat32 works great, and i can use it with the script that makes the card the phone memory, so now i got 64gb instead of 11.6gb of phone storage
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How can I get the script you talked about?
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No problems here. Got a Class 10 sandisk 64gb in.
danben7 said:
No problems here. Got a Class 10 sandisk 64gb in.
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where formatted?
how much fully card with data?
witch rom, kernel?
I have the class 10 64Gb Sandisk sd card too with no problems.
Card has about 55Gb info on it and I didn't format the card. Just put it into the phone. Recognised instantly and haven't looked back.
I have a 2nd SGSIII too with a 64gb class 6 sandisk sd card. Same applies but with a little less data on it.
diddsen said:
where formatted?
how much fully card with data?
witch rom, kernel?
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Came formatted in exfat, I then formatted it on my phone as well but it wasn't necessary, still exfat
59.47GB available
Stock international rom, ALF2
I know this is technically a question, but I was hoping to spark some discussion on filesystems in android.
I just got a 64GB microSDXC card and I know that the LGOG is compatible with it. I just checked and noticed that:
a. it comes preformated with exfat and
b. my ubuntu install is not cool with that.
I'm all linux over here, so I'd actually prefer something like ext4, or something more flash-storage specific (forget, but there were several flash-friendly FS's in the works way back) and I'm just fine with the 'other OS's' not being able to mount my microsd card.
The primary concern, of course, is what the LGOG is gonna require. At first I thought this would have to be exFAT, but seeing as FAT32 supports up to 2TiB, maybe FAT32 is still the only option? I tried ext4 in my xperia ION, and it wouldn't mount unless it was FAT32.
If you want mount it in CWM , I'm pretty sure it has to be FAT32.
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JasonJoel said:
If you want mount it in CWM , I'm pretty sure it has to be FAT32.
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good point, though at this point I'm unlikely to use CWM on this device, though, that could change. I've just read that many people are opting for NTFS on their sdcards in android to avoid the 4GB file-size limit of FAT32. I had no idea android supported NTFS, though linux support is quite good at this point apparently, so that makes sense....
I formatted NTFS (in linux, tho) and the stock LGOG firmware refused to mount it, so I guess I'm stuck with FAT32....
razholio said:
I formatted NTFS (in linux, tho) and the stock LGOG firmware refused to mount it, so I guess I'm stuck with FAT32....
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You can format the SD cart to ext4 using Gparted and it should be usable and much faster than FAT32. I've formatted my SanDisk 64 SDXC to two separate partitions so that I can utilize the primary partition for storage and the secondary partition for apps synced with Link2SD. Works quite nicely formatted into two 29GB partitions.
Fracto said:
You can format the SD cart to ext4 using Gparted and it should be usable and much faster than FAT32. I've formatted my SanDisk 64 SDXC to two separate partitions so that I can utilize the primary partition for storage and the secondary partition for apps synced with Link2SD. Works quite nicely formatted into two 29GB partitions.
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does this work with stock firmware? I tried ext4 on my ion and it would not mount the external SD card formatted with ext4.
Fracto said:
You can format the SD cart to ext4 using Gparted and it should be usable and much faster than FAT32. I've formatted my SanDisk 64 SDXC to two separate partitions so that I can utilize the primary partition for storage and the secondary partition for apps synced with Link2SD. Works quite nicely formatted into two 29GB partitions.
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I'll have to download a live CD and try that out.
I'm also primarily a linux user. I have been using fat32 on my 64gb class 10 card and recommend it for convenience.
I did try exfat and although I did not run benchmarks, I think exfat is slightly faster (and I'm sure ext4 would be faster that fat32). However, you cannot beat the convenience of downloading a zip file straight to your card and installing via CWM all in just a few minutes.
It's no ext4 and so I lose a tiny bit of peace of mind, but it's worth it.
razholio said:
I know this is technically a question, but I was hoping to spark some discussion on filesystems in android.
I just got a 64GB microSDXC card and I know that the LGOG is compatible with it. I just checked and noticed that:
a. it comes preformated with exfat and
b. my ubuntu install is not cool with that.
I'm all linux over here, so I'd actually prefer something like ext4, or something more flash-storage specific (forget, but there were several flash-friendly FS's in the works way back) and I'm just fine with the 'other OS's' not being able to mount my microsd card.
The primary concern, of course, is what the LGOG is gonna require. At first I thought this would have to be exFAT, but seeing as FAT32 supports up to 2TiB, maybe FAT32 is still the only option? I tried ext4 in my xperia ION, and it wouldn't mount unless it was FAT32.
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Fracto said:
You can format the SD cart to ext4 using Gparted and it should be usable and much faster than FAT32. I've formatted my SanDisk 64 SDXC to two separate partitions so that I can utilize the primary partition for storage and the secondary partition for apps synced with Link2SD. Works quite nicely formatted into two 29GB partitions.
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Has anyone else tried this?
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Has anyone else tried this?
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Yeah I formatted mine into one 50 Gb partition (User) and another 9 GB partition (apps) and Link2SD works great. However, for apps that download additional data into the obb folder it doesn't move that over. Another thing to note is the highest app that I linked only saved about 50 MBs. Not really saving that much space but after I linked several 50 MB and under apps, I recovered about 1 GB of space on the Internal. It's worth it and not that complicated.
I you want to try: Backup your SD, format it to Fat32, use MiniTool to resize the first partition, then create a second partition (FAT 32 and make sure it is Primary, Don't use ext4 it didn't work for me) using the remaining space.
EDIT: Even 9 GBs is too large. Anyone who is gonna try this, you would only need about 3 to 6 GBs for Link2SD. I also tried using GL to SD in combination with Link2SD and had some issues.
Okay, in the morning I'll make a 50gb the exfat partition for use in android and a 9gb FAT32 for recovery.
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DeathmonkeyGTX said:
Okay, in the morning I'll make a 50gb the exfat partition for use in android and a 9gb FAT32 for recovery.
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I think you misunderstood. The first partition will be used for files and recovery in android and must be FAT32. You can use another format but I haven't tested any others. I also know the recovery won't recognize any other format besides FAT32. The second partition can only be used for link2sd and the only one I got to work was FAT32.
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I don't use Link2SD. Just exfat for music, videos, and map data and FAT32 for Android crap and recovery.
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