I partitioned my 8gb card before so I could use apsd and I don't use it anymore so I formatted my card and it still only tells me there's 6700 mb available.. I know some of the card will be taken up with software to make the card work but I didn't think it would be a gig.. did I format the card wrong?
if not the whole reason, most of the reason is that when the manufacturer makes their claim of 8GB, they are using the formula of 1000B being 1KB, 1000KB being 1MB, 1000MB being 1 GB, then when systems read the card, 1024B is 1KB, 1024KB is 1MB, 1024MB is 1GB...
so if the card is 8000000 Bytes claimed by the manuf. then 8000000/1024/1024 should be 7.6 gigs
my 8gig card shows 7.39 in my phone, so maybe the OS reserved 200MB for something?
maddmatt02 said:
if not the whole reason, most of the reason is that when the manufacturer makes their claim of 8GB, they are using the formula of 1000B being 1KB, 1000KB being 1MB, 1000MB being 1 GB, then when systems read the card, 1024B is 1KB, 1024KB is 1MB, 1024MB is 1GB...
so if the card is 8000000 Bytes claimed by the manuf. then 8000000/1024/1024 should be 7.6 gigs
my 8gig card shows 7.39 in my phone, so maybe the OS reserved 200MB for something?
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If you partitioned your SD card for a2sd reformatting won't give you back the whole card. You need to repartition and select 0 for swap, 0 for ext and 'the rest' for FAT. That will repartition it into something your phone (and Windows/Mac/etc) can see and give you back the full available space.
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Noobish question, I'm afraid:
I'm running Modaco's 3.2 rom with A2SD+ with an 8gb memory card. Previously, I had used a regular A2SD 3.2 rom.
I formatted my sd card to have 32 mb swap, and 512 mb for ext2 (which I immediately upgraded to ext3). How big should the dev cache be?
When I check the size of my card under settings, it shows 7 gb now.
I would understand 7.5, but 7 doesn't seem to make sense.
Did I miss a step in card formatting/reformatting, or is this normal?
TIA.
shotten99 said:
Noobish question, I'm afraid:
I'm running Modaco's 3.2 rom with A2SD+ with an 8gb memory card. Previously, I had used a regular A2SD 3.2 rom.
I formatted my sd card to have 32 mb swap, and 512 mb for ext2 (which I immediately upgraded to ext3). How big should the dev cache be?
When I check the size of my card under settings, it shows 7 gb now.
I would understand 7.5, but 7 doesn't seem to make sense.
Did I miss a step in card formatting/reformatting, or is this normal?
TIA.
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if you have a 8 gig sd card, i doubt you had much more than 7.5 gig of space to start with, just cuz its an 8 gig card you only get about 7.6 gig of space on it you know
shotten99 said:
Noobish question, I'm afraid:
I'm running Modaco's 3.2 rom with A2SD+ with an 8gb memory card. Previously, I had used a regular A2SD 3.2 rom.
I formatted my sd card to have 32 mb swap, and 512 mb for ext2 (which I immediately upgraded to ext3). How big should the dev cache be?
When I check the size of my card under settings, it shows 7 gb now.
I would understand 7.5, but 7 doesn't seem to make sense.
Did I miss a step in card formatting/reformatting, or is this normal?
TIA.
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Just to add, i would suggest that you do not use a swap and set it to 0 Mb. Your phone has 578 MB of RAM - a portion of this is used for running android OS and after the substraction for radio, GPU use, it still should be around 400MB. Using a swap size of 32 Mb would just slow down your phone.
This might be of no relevance, esp. considering how SD cards often have slightly less than stated capacity, but just to note that using Linux deleting files off the SD card while connected via usb does -not- delete them, rather it appears that the file is deleted but space had not been freed up. You need to empty your waste basket/recycle bin to actually delete the file.
I've gotten used to this on ubuntu derived distros but may be true of linux in general perhaps.
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Ok so this is my problem:
I have a 16 Gig MicroSD class 6 card.
I've partitioned it with ROM manager and then manualy changed the partitions sizes, I've increased the ext3 and the swap partitions sizes with gparted.
Later on I've inserted the card back to my Device and Flashed a fresh copy of the ROM.
The device still can only see 147 Mb or free space whereas I've partitioned it to be about 1 Gig of size.
Any one knows any way to make more space on the card then ~150Mb?
Do a search on data2ext and data2sd.
Good luck.
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ilAlejandro said:
Ok so this is my problem:
I have a 16 Gig MicroSD class 6 card.
I've partitioned it with ROM manager and then manualy changed the partitions sizes, I've increased the ext3 and the swap partitions sizes with gparted.
Later on I've inserted the card back to my Device and Flashed a fresh copy of the ROM.
The device still can only see 147 Mb or free space whereas I've partitioned it to be about 1 Gig of size.
Any one knows any way to make more space on the card then ~150Mb?
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I take it your using a normal app2sd rom, not the newer data2sd or data2ext.
where are you looking to find your stats? if its in settings/sd & phone storage these wont show the amount of the app2sd partition, but they will show the amount of a data2sd or data2ext partition, because the latter two fools the phone in to thinking its internal storage, the former just moves parts of an app to the ext partition on the sd card so isnt classed as internal storage.
If you download an app from the market called quick system info it will show you the size of your app2sd partition to see if its worked
So.. i was installing RCMixHD Rom yesterday, i partitioned my card as follows (using Gparted in Ubuntu):
FAT32 14GB
EXT2 2GB
This Rom is awfully bad, it crashed few times and freezed that i couldnt even reboot so i had to remove battery when it was still running.
I decided going back to CM7 but i just realised that SD Card size is 12.84GB, and Gparted doesnt show any partitions on it, what the heck?
Use a card reader or connect the sd while in recovery and make sure all the partitions get mounted.
If android is booted the ext partition doesn't get mounted. Also if you created your ext partition while android was booted that probably messed up the ext partition and that's why the rom doesn't work right.
First of all a 16 GB cars is more likely 15 Gb in real life.
Moreover, the phone does not recognizes the ext partiton in the SD card menu (in settings), just the FAT32 one.
So 15GB-2GB-possibly some unpartitioned for data = 12.84 GB
That's OK.
Thanks, i think it's fixed now i got 14.8GB of space available again.
Is that a class 10 card? i am trying to figure out which card should i get for my desire, after bad experience with kingston 16gb class 10.
Its Class 4 Sandisk SD card.
if you want to partition the card try ext 3 for a2sd+
Minitool Partition manager is the way to go to create ext partitions on a sd card
free too..
Show your Partition sd card please...
i would like to know
Mine :
Sd card class 6 - 16gb
14gb FAT32
128mb ext3
256mb linux swap
N.B.
What's the different beetwen EXt with 128mb and 1G ext.
If we make partition in CWM (Arco) which ext will CWM make for us? 2/3/4/?
ghost141 said:
Show your Partition sd card please...
i would like to know
Mine :
Sd card class 6 - 16gb
14gb FAT32
128mb ext3
256mb linux swap
N.B.
What's the different beetwen EXt with 128mb and 1G ext.
If we make partition in CWM (Arco) which ext will CWM make for us? 2/3/4/?
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ext partition is usually used if you want extend your internal memory like using link2sd or other tools.
i don't think it's necessary with our phone, because it has 1g+ internal. you can simply move the apps to sdcard to free some internal mem.
CWM if i'm not wrong, by default creates ext3 partition.
thanks 4 ur explaination...
I just formatted my card to FAT32 and i notice it has 58 GB out of the 64. Is this the default value or did i format wrong?
You can use all 64GB. Its just display as 58GB due to the difference in calculating memory size.