Now since my nexus s doesn't expose the FAT32 sd card filesystem anymore, due to file sharing over MTP, I thought that changing the sd card filesystem might be an idea worth investigating.
FAT32 is probably not the most efficient choice for an sd card file system, what options do I actually have? Could switching to ext4 result in performance gains? Would my device actually recognize the new filesystem?
Is there another filesystem that handles sd cards even better and is it supported by kernel/ics?
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Hi all,
I have been reading about an issue that I have: 'android.process.media' keeps stopping.
One of the suggestions is that there maybe a corrupted file on your external sd card.
The fix is to either delete the file; good luck trying to find which file. or to reformat the sd card.
Since I have the keyboard dock and several 32gb microSD cards. I plan on copying all my files to the other card and then formatting the card in question.
However, it seems on the Asus tablet, I am not given the format option. I had it on my Samsung phone before the upgrade to ICS.
But one thing I wanted to do after some other reading is to format the card the same file system that is used on the internal memory.
If I have my facts correct, the internal memory is formatted as 'ext' and external SD cards get formatted as 'fat' (or is that fat32).
I think it's formatted as fat, is for compatibility with your PC.
However, the article, said that 'ext' is much more secure and less prone to corruption.
So is there anyway to format the external SD card in this 'ext' file system and how would one do that process?
Thanks!
Rob
You would need to do it in linux or find a windows program that could do it, as ext is not supported in windows. Im not sure the microsd will work right in the tablet formated as ext and your windows desktop wont be able to access .
Ok, I read in another thread, they suggested to put the microsd card in the phone and format from there.
I did do that.
And I have another question, my phone is rooted and it contains CWM.
I noticed in CWM, that you can fomat from there.
There are options to format areas, like /system /cache and the one I am interested in is /sdcard.
My question is this, is this /sdcard the external micro SD card or is it simply the partition /sdcard which is Samsung's internal memory. I don't want to take a change and format the internal SD card.
I think once formatted the external SD card, but I was on a different version of CWM, I have a different one after the ICS upgrade that was recommended by someone helping me do the ICS upgrade.
Anyway, thanks in advance!
Rob
Whoops almost forgot, there is thread on xda about formatting memory in ext4. I would like to try that and see if the Asus tablet can read that if I get to format the external card in ext4 Still looking for a Windows program that will format in that mode.
/sdcard is internal. /Removable is external.
I would be surprised if you can find a Windows program that reads, let alone writes, any type of ext filesystem (and forget about anything less mainstream like JFS or ReiserFS). Microsoft only made Windows compatible with their own filesystems, FAT32 and NTFS.
The memory card format is generic format in G pro 2 and its not allowing the user to copy the file more than 4Gb.I have formatted the memory card to NTFS but when i insert the memory card in phone its asking to format again and getting changed to the Generic file format. Is there any solution for this issue any one has come across?
Why not to use exFAT? G pro 2 can use cards formatted with exFAT file system. I'm using 64gb exFAT memory card without a problem. Just format a card to exFAT on a computer.
Hi,
My SD card suddenly went unmountable. My phone restarted automatically and hasn't been able to mount the card. It is not recognizable in Windows too. I just see a grayed out drive that has 0MB.
I'm using Apps2SD on my phone and I had to partition my SD card with one Ext4 partition and on FAT32.
The thing is that because the first partition is Ext4, Windows cannot see the second FAT32 partition.
How can I check if my SD card really went dead or is it a matter of corrupted file system?
What program can I use to scan and check Linux partitions on SD card?
I've been trying to move apps to my SD card using Links2SD, but apparently this phone doesn't support moving apps to the SD card. Is there a way to do this?
I also tried "linking" apps to the SD card (even though I'm not quite sure I understand what that means), but I'm getting an error saying I don't have a second SD partition. If this is my last hope, how do I create a new SD partition?
Running Resurrection Remix on 6.0.1.
Thanks!
Edit: found this thread on creating a second partition, but I'm wondering if it's possible to do it on the phone since I don't have a card reader.
I think you can use TWRP to partition the SD card... A ext2/3/4 partition is required to use Link2SD on any device
Note that you cannot use the card as adopted storage. Always set the first partition as FAT32 and the second as ext4, or the card cannot be read in some Windows PC's, I would recommend a minimum 32GB card and at least U1/UHS-1 speed rating for acceptable performance.
Hello, I had to backup my laptop and send it back and the only backup media I found was my phones sdcard which had fat 32 and because I needed to transfer large files I formated it on the laptop to ntfs.
Now I only have my phone left and when I want to copy what I have on the sdcard it says the sd is corrupted. Is there any way that the file system on my s8 plus can be made to read the ntfs sd cards ?
Thank you sooooo much !!!
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Hello, I had to backup my laptop and send it back and the only backup media I found was my phones sdcard which had fat 32 and because I needed to transfer large files I formated it on the laptop to ntfs.
Now I only have my phone left and when I want to copy what I have on the sdcard it says the sd is corrupted. Is there any way that the file system on my s8 plus can be made to read the ntfs sd cards ?
Thank you sooooo much !!!
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If you have already tripped KNOX, you could modify the fstab in bootimg. Samsung, for some reason, decided to restrict SD cards to fat format. The support for NTFS, ext4 and many other FS is already built-in, enabling it is as easy as changing the FS from 'fat' to 'auto' in fstab.
Sadly know is not tripped nor am I willing to do so. Is there any other way?
You should use exFAT. This gets over 4GB file size restrictions and can be seen by both Windows and Android.