hiya would any kind person recommend settings for the partitions on an 8gb card please?
never bothered with this side of EXT4 before, i got a bit confuddled when it asked for 2 lots of ext4 and a swap.
JayIce11 said:
hiya would any kind person recommend settings for the partitions on an 8gb card please?
never bothered with this side of EXT4 before, i got a bit confuddled when it asked for 2 lots of ext4 and a swap.
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Hi,
The Sensation is blessed with 1 GB of storage for apps.
There is NO need for a partition on your sd card.
Fill it with music and films.
Enjoy.
Just 8gb fat32
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many thanks to the pair of you
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I purchased a 32GB class 4 microSDHC card for my Sensation 4G. I would like to format it so that I can store some large files over 4GB in size. (FYI: These are not pirated HQ porn films.) What would be the best format and method of formatting this card?
FAT32 can't have files over 4GB & I don't think the phone will recognize a card formatted to NTFS
Just toss it into your phone, go into settings>SD & Phone Storage> unmount the card, and then format it. The phone will format it Fat32.
Paten said:
I purchased a 32GB class 4 microSDHC card for my Sensation 4G. I would like to format it so that I can store some large files over 4GB in size. (FYI: These are not pirated HQ porn films.) What would be the best format and method of formatting this card?
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Panasonic Format Utility
KillaHurtz said:
Panasonic Format Utility
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Cool Find! Thx for sharing.
luckyduck69 said:
Cool Find! Thx for sharing.
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No problem
It can sounds like a noob question, but,:
When using Panasonic SD FOrmatter, in OPTION tab
What could be the best options to use?
FORMAT TYPE:
- QUICK
- FULL ERASE
- FULL OVERWRITE
FORMAT SIZE ADJUSTMENT:
- OFF
- ON
Thanks
X 2, just want to see what you say.
I typically just do quick format to Fat32 with no size adjustment, ironically just today I used SD Formatter to format 4 sd cards using that method. As always, no issues whatsoever.
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What would the best partitions on the stock 8gb sdcard for the sensation?
EXT? (if so what ext and why)
SWAP? (If so what size swap and why)
Your help would be amazing...
One fat32 partition. Additional partitions are not needed at this time. Swap to sd is slower than ram so you really only want to use it on devices that are severely ram limited. Apps to sd is for devices with limited onboard storage and I don't think that's an issue for most of us.
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That's all I needed to know thank you!
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moto211 said:
One fat32 partition. Additional partitions are not needed at this time. Swap to sd is slower than ram so you really only want to use it on devices that are severely ram limited. Apps to sd is for devices with limited onboard storage and I don't think that's an issue for most of us.
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Why after installing any ext-4 rom can not move apps to sd card ? after moving little apps, 2 or 3 apps, any apk over 3mb it says sd card full, and I have over 4gb free!
i did the superwipe step
any advice will be appreciated.
What is partition sd card for and how to use it I have a 16gb card and I try this in voodoo and it drop it to 10gb if its not need it how do I put it back to 16gb
Glorious+Overdose+V2+-+PDTsk4g
I take it that no one knows about this
Glorious+Overdose+V2+-+PDTsk4g
to hold roms or other mis items i believe
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some people put swap partitions on their sd cards to add to the physical memory, works ok at best and you have to have a script to enable it. Others put an ext4 partition to install programs to. Once again works ok, but Android has native installation to sd cards so it isn't as helpful as out once was.
Imho you are better off having one big fat 32 partition and not messing with all the rest.
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Think you a lot so how do I put it back to 16gb its at 10 now
Glorious+Overdose+V2+-+PDTsk4g
wipe the sd card i think
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wiping the card doesn't change the partitions.
partitioning the sd card just splits it up into separate filesystems. you choose the type of filesystem (fat, ntfs, ext, reiser, etc) you want for each partition.
the ROM does not go anywhere on the sd card.
like wolfepakt said, you can put linux swap space onto a partition on the sd card, but for the sk4g i don't feel it's necessary. i think it was common to have on the g1, though.
i'm not completely clear why people use ext partitions on their sd cards. with ext3 and ext4, there's journaling, so i think there's added robustness against file corruption or whatever. i'm not clear on speed of ext vs fat, though. i think ext4 is faster than ext3, so the question would be fat32 vs ext4.
you can partition your card via cwm, but for some reason you can't choose 0 for your ext size, which is annoying. maybe that's only with the red cwm, though, which is what i have. the other thing you could do is use a card reader and plug it into your computer, which i assume runs windows, and then partition it via the disk manager: http://www.d-silence.com/feature.php?id=246
It's used to put apps on when using a low memory device also. IE: The G1, Mytouch 32b
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It's used to put apps on when using a low memory device also. IE: The G1, Mytouch 32b
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How can I put it back to 16gb its at 10 now
Glorious+Overdose+V2+-+PDTsk4g
Look two posts up.
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Hey guys, I hope someone can help me with this little problem.
I got a new Samsung 32gb sd-card for my Sensation.
My rom is currently InsertCoin with ICS and I'm using the "4EXT Recovery Touch".
So now is the question how to partition the sd-card? One EXT or two? What is the advantage of two EXT's?
And do I need Swap?
The last time I need Swap was on my HTC Dream That's a long time ago.
Is it usefull on the Sensation?
How is your sd-card partitioned?
I would be very pleased about some answers!!!
No need for ext partitions. 32gb fat32 will do
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and what about Apps2SD?
My internal storage is nearly full and i have not many apps on the phone, so i think an EXT could be very usefull for that, e.g. for games
Hi all,
Is it good to partition my SD card? What is positive and negative ?
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Hi all,
Is it good to partition my SD card? What is positive and negative ?
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meaning what? swap and ext4?
swap reduces your sd battery life, but it's said that it's not very noticeable, and it's needed with sense 3.5
ext4 just adds space for apps on sdcard as if they were on phone's rom
I mean swap, sorry.
What do you mean with reduce? And how can i swap my sdcard? Can you post me a thread please ? )
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This will tell you everything you need to know to get started.
Okey thanks
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I just partitioned my MicroSD card with MiniTool.
First Partition: FAT
Second Partition: Ext2
My laptop recognizes the card through card reader and I can see the two partitions in MiniTool, but my phone (HTC Explorer) does not recognize it. Any suggestions?
Well how are you checking if your phone sees it. Some roms can't use sd2ext. Take a good file explorer like root explorer ans see if there's a folder names sd-ext
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I just partitioned my MicroSD card with MiniTool.
First Partition: FAT
Second Partition: Ext2
My laptop recognizes the card through card reader and I can see the two partitions in MiniTool, but my phone (HTC Explorer) does not recognize it. Any suggestions?
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I simply use the phone's recovery (in my case 4EXT) , which will walk me thru everything, I didn't bother with a swap partition but rather a dataswap option (specific to my rom), and a 2GB sd-ext (Again supported by default on my rom). And used 4EXT to convert all my internal file systems to ext4 filetype instead of ext3 (again my rom supports it, but not all roms do).
Essentially you can partition SD and most everything else via ClockworkMod or 4EXT.
PS: Generally sd-ext should be the FIRST partition. (or second in the case of swap, sd-ext and fat32), since some Roms will not automatically recognize it if not placed in that order. thus another reason to do it via recovery.
Use the recovery on your phone to partition your SD card then plug your SD card into a Linux box and check to see if it's EXT4 using Gparted.
how to get sd-ext before fat32 in 4ext?
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I simply use the phone's recovery (in my case 4EXT) , which will walk me thru everything, I didn't bother with a swap partition but rather a dataswap option (specific to my rom), and a 2GB sd-ext (Again supported by default on my rom). And used 4EXT to convert all my internal file systems to ext4 filetype instead of ext3 (again my rom supports it, but not all roms do).
Essentially you can partition SD and most everything else via ClockworkMod or 4EXT.
PS: Generally sd-ext should be the FIRST partition. (or second in the case of swap, sd-ext and fat32), since some Roms will not automatically recognize it if not placed in that order. thus another reason to do it via recovery.
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I'm running mimicry-1.4.0, 4ext touch, same as you. When I ask it to partition my new, 16gig, class 10 card, it asks:
size of first sd-ext, to which I reply 2048
size of second sf-ext, to which I reply skip
size of swap, which I also skip,
and then it does the remainder as fat32.
BUT...the fat partition is at the beginning of the card...not the order the app asked for my input...and I don't see how to change them.
Maybe not being first is okay with mimicry?
thanks for your help,
p-d
ps all my file systems are ext4 on the phone itself.
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I'm running mimicry-1.4.0, 4ext touch, same as you. When I ask it to partition my new, 16gig, class 10 card, it asks:
size of first sd-ext, to which I reply 2048
size of second sf-ext, to which I reply skip
size of swap, which I also skip,
and then it does the remainder as fat32.
BUT...the fat partition is at the beginning of the card...not the order the app asked for my input...and I don't see how to change them.
Maybe not being first is okay with mimicry?
thanks for your help,
p-d
ps all my file systems are ext4 on the phone itself.
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you'll be just fine, this is normal
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you'll be just fine, this is normal
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Older s2e may need a specific partition order but both clockwork and 4ext arrange in this order, and the enabler script in my signature needs no apps and works fine with mimicry.
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