Can the SD card be formatted to any other file system than fat32? the file size limit is a problem and i know linux supports many different file systems.
You can partition your sd card to any file system however if you ever need to mount it in windows, windows would only be able to see the fat32 partition.
i should clarify, i meant what other file systems does Android support (on the SD card)? Thank you.
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Hi forum!
I've tried the Galaxy S lag fix and it worked perfect, but when i wanted to try out the fix with the ext4 file system i suddenly can't create partitions on my SD card anymore.
I'm using Paragon Partition Magic 11, and i can see and delete the partition on my the SD card, the data is now shown as 16gb unallocated, but when i try to create new partitions i get a strange error:
The disk already contains four primary partitions. Basic hard disks can contain only four primary partitions, including extended ones.
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But i deleted all the partitions in Paragon?!
Windows Disk Manager can't delete or format the partition.
I'm using a Kingston 16gb class 10 Micro SDHC card, but i have also tried with an older Nokia 1gb Micro SDHC card with the same error.
Hope somebody can help...
I've made a discovery of my own...
It seems that even though Paragon deletes the partition on my SD card, it's not really gone.
After deleting the partition "successfully", i take the card out and put it in again... Paragon still sees a 16gb Fat32 Partition.
Windows Disk Management can also see a 16gb Partition, but it can't delete it.
Any suggestions?
I can't even format the SD Card
Ok, so I've searched around and haven't really found an answer to my question, sorry if it's been answered before.
I'd like to format my ENTIRE SD card as an EXT3/4 filesystem, and was wondering if it would register as a normal SD card under Android, or will it be used a "system partition"? Would i be able to transfer files freely using a file explorer and would apps using the SD card (not apps on the SD card) for data run properly. I'd like to have a different file system used as FAT32 is a little ancient, and EXT is much better. I'm running Ubuntu as one of my OS, so mounting it on my PC wouldn't be a problem.
Thanks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1123833
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It would still be seen as an external SD card whatever file system you format it as.
Thanks. Although, i was reading through that thread and it says that the SD card will be reformated to VFAT on reboot. Is this true for the DHD too?
Possibly. I wouldnt know to be honest. Might aswell wait until somebody who knows about this can answer.
Hello,
I have a 16gb SD card that I am trying to format. It has an EXT4 folder on it that I cannot delete. I cannot write to the SD Card as it is showing as in use.
I have a back up for my Desire but it is on my PC, therefore I cannot write this to the SD card. I can only access the SD card through my PC as when it is in the phone it will not mount.
Could someone explain how to delete the EXT4 folder so that I can write to the SD card? At the moment I have no Mobile!
Many thanks,
Simon
scotty12 said:
Hello,
I have a 16gb SD card that I am trying to format. It has an EXT4 folder on it that I cannot delete. I cannot write to the SD Card as it is showing as in use.
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I guess you mean that you have an ext4 partition (formating normally doesn't care about folders).
I would suggest formatting the sd-card with an sd reader outside of your phone.
An alternative would be re-formatting your sd via recovery if you have clockwork mod installed. (or e.g. via adb: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534714)
OK, managed to delete the file through EXT4 Recovery and mounted to my PC. Thankd for the help by the way!
Simon.....
Hi,
just installed ics last night and one by one the errors are showing themselves. I didnt post this in the FAQ because it might not be related to there. Now, my phone wont recognize my ex_SD!! It says the SD is damaged, you might have to format it. I formatted it, turned out it formatted my internal SD leaving my external SD untouched.
The external SD works perfectly fine when i connect it to windows, but my phone wont mount it.
Can it be because of the format method? First i formatted with NTFS, now im formatting with FAT32 and allocation Unit Size of 16 KB. If formatting isnt the problem then perhaps its a bug or smth from ics.
Try you SD on a different phone.
Sent from my SGH-I747
i dont have a different phone...
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Can it be because of the format method? First i formatted with NTFS, now im formatting with FAT32 and allocation Unit Size of 16 KB. If formatting isnt the problem then perhaps its a bug or smth from ics.
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You should never format your External SD as NTFS; Linux does not support NTFS. At least not natively. Android *definitely* doesn't.
Format it as FAT32 with *Default* allocation unit size (Windows will determine what the correct size is by reading from the SD card controller).
You might also need to partition it before you format it. Use the freely available MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition, and create one primary partition (of type FAT32).
pepoluan said:
You should never format your External SD as NTFS; Linux does not support NTFS. At least not natively. Android *definitely* doesn't.
Format it as FAT32 with *Default* allocation unit size (Windows will determine what the correct size is by reading from the SD card controller).
You might also need to partition it before you format it. Use the freely available MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition, and create one primary partition (of type FAT32).
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Thankyou. I now have my SD card back. and now it is displayed on my phone as well. Seems that i have very low experience on ics which caused the prblm.
Thankyou very much
pepoluan said:
You should never format your External SD as NTFS; Linux does not support NTFS. At least not natively. Android *definitely* doesn't.
Format it as FAT32 with *Default* allocation unit size (Windows will determine what the correct size is by reading from the SD card controller).
You might also need to partition it before you format it. Use the freely available MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition, and create one primary partition (of type FAT32).
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thx helped alot
Hello everyone, I know this thread is already present and I also red the info regarding with it, but it seems my problem is something I can't solve with the help of those previous instructions. I have an I idea how to solve it but I'm hesitant to do it because I don't know if it works, and I kinda scared to do it because I don't want to buy again another SD Card if ever the present one will break.
Problem: I have a torrent app in my Note II and I liked to use it always because it downloads fast, but the problem is that whenever I want to download files that is more than 4GB in size, I always receive an error that the file I want to download is to big for the file system; (file system limit exceeded), and I learned that this error occurs when my storage system is FAT/FAT32, then I read a thread in this forum that this will be solved by converting my SD Card's file system to NTFS and use Paragon NTFS Mount app so that my NTFS Card will be accepted by my phone, alas I did as what was instructed, converted my SD Card to NTFS, mount my card to storage/sdCard/extcard <---Created another path as it was said that using the default path would make it not work. But when I re-started to download files it fails to me again, the same problem encountered (file system limit exceeded). I even converted my SD card to exFat because I heard that this can handle large files, more than 4GB but also to no avail.
Solution(not tested yet): I am planning to make 2 partitions in my SD card, one partition would be fat32 and the other would be NTFS, and use also paragon app, so that when I insert my card to my phone, the phone will mount the FAT system to the fat32 partition and leave the NTFS partition alone and not be used.
Does this method of mine will work? Are there any ideas aside from what I had in mind that will also help me solve my little problem. I know that this problem of mine is not that big, and I can just refer it to other threads and the google but I want to know from the pro's and OP's here if my method is possible.
Thank you!
Kudos to all!:good:
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You need to define a mount point like sdcard0 is internal sd sdcard1 is external sd fat32 partition sdcard2 as the ntfs partition which is really hard to do on a samsung based rom (even windows doesnt recognize the second partition on sd cards ) you can format the sd to ext3 or ext4 it's the best possible solution
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You need to define a mount point like sdcard0 is internal sd sdcard1 is external sd fat32 partition sdcard2 as the ntfs partition which is really hard to do on a samsung based rom (even windows doesnt recognize the second partition on sd cards ) you can format the sd to ext3 or ext4 it's the best possible solution
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I see, too bad, but thanks any way. Does the procedure in formatting my sd card to ext3 or ext4 is the same as when I format my card to fat32 other system, or would you use a program to do it.
Why are you using Fat32 or NTFS just format the SD card to ExFAT. No size limit and compatible with Note2 & Windows
I think the problem you are having is due to the torrent app you are using, it might be trying to use the internal phone memory as a temporary location for the file you are downloading. Try changing your torrent app
(I had this problem with the official utorrent app)