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sd card limited to fat32 only?

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.

Disregard.

[Q] Format sd card as ext4 in order to put files on sd card which are over 4GB

Hello,
I know the sd card is standard formated as fat32, but fat32 has one limitation and that is that is that it can not store files over 4GB.
That means that most 720p movies will not fit on it because off the limitation. I wonder how I can get the sd card to ext4, when I booted in gparted live usb it could not find the sd card. I have succeeded partition it in ext4 using minitool partition wizard home edition. Now I only wonder if the phone does not overrule it, I have right now RCMix3D Runny 4.0

What is the correct form to format external SD

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...

sevenmad said:
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

[Q]NTFS SD Card Mount on NOTE II

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

erdemc said:
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)

64 GB NTFS Card & TWRP Issue

Hi to all members and senior developers,
I have purchased a 64 GB Micro SD Card (Kingston - Class 10). It came pre-formatted in exFat format. I formatted it in NTFS. Now the issue is that my Samsung S4 recognizes card but TWRP (latest - 3.0.2.0) does not recognize it. It shows 0 MB when i try to mount the card. Also i am unable to mount the card. I know this thread have been answered with a solution that format it in FAT32 format but i don't want to do this because i have some movies and data larger than 4GB. I don't want to format it again so i have to move all my data again to my pc then to sd card.. it is a headache. Any solution will be appreciated. I wont go for FAT32 ! Never how is exFat ... i mean the read write speed is fine on this partition table or not ? Answer soon. Thanks to all