I need to know what else my internal storage can be formatted to besides FAT32. i accidentally did this a while ago formatting it through Disk Utility (mac OSX) and i need to transfer a file larger than 4gb to it but FAT32 has a 4gb cap to it i assume. Any help?
I accidentally formatted data under TWRP and now the internal memory won't accept files larger than 4gb.
How do I format the internal memory to another filesystem?
Hazmatyre said:
I accidentally formatted data under TWRP and now the internal memory won't accept files larger than 4gb.
How do I format the internal memory to another filesystem?
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I would not expect that Android works at all with /data on a FAT32 partition - are you sure that it's not ext4? The problem could also be somewhere else. Please post the output of "mount|grep /data" (e.g invoked using adb shell).
I have flash a Custom ROM into my Cloudfone 430x and I notice that my Storage was not reading properly after, so I format my internal storage but the internal storage down from 1.9g to 98mb I check my files using the cwm and I still see the files on my internal storage I think the internal storage swap into something how can I fix this issue?
Can someone help? After 5gb my Lenovo tablet's memory is full but it says there are 96gb at all.
I set up my memory card as adoptable storage. After downloading 5gb of a test file I am getting an out of memory error. What is wrong here? The Lenovo tab4 8 plus has 64gb internal memory, so it should all work fine with a 32 GB SD card inside as adoptable storage...
The card itself seems to contain data but the system is not touching the internal memory. So if downloading a test file the SD card will be filled up to the limit where there's still space on the internal memory.
d4yw41k3r said:
Can someone help? After 5gb my Lenovo tablet's memory is full but it says there are 96gb at all.
I set up my memory card as adoptable storage. After downloading 5gb of a test file I am getting an out of memory error. What is wrong here? The Lenovo tab4 8 plus has 64gb internal memory, so it should all work fine with a 32 GB SD card inside as adoptable storage...
The card itself seems to contain data but the system is not touching the internal memory. So if downloading a test file the SD card will be filled up to the limit where there's still space on the internal memory.
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Maybe android doesn't check file sizes before assigning download locations, I haven't had any issues with this feature.
Btw https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3619346 don't ask questions here.
Hi,
So I've successfully added external (fat32) drive, formatted as internal... But can't locate it in a file manager.
I can move apps to it, but if I try migrate data; it just says could not migrate. I want to ftp into it but can only see a 4gb available partition or root.
Am I missing something or is this not possible yet?
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My sincerest apologies I did not post this in the Chromecast thread instead of general questions. Can a moderator move it or should I delete and repost there?
When you convert external SD-card's storage memory to Android's internal storage memory then it becomes part of Android's internal storage memory. It should be obvious you no longer can access it as external storage memory by means of whatever method
jwoegerbauer said:
When you convert external SD-card's storage memory to Android's internal storage memory then it becomes part of Android's internal storage memory. It should be obvious you no longer can access it as external storage memory by means of whatever method
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It should be obvious I want to navigate it as internal storage, yet only the 4gb original partition is viewable in file manager. Apps can be moved to it using storage settings. I can't navigate it in ES, Solid Explorer or Kodi, nor can I see it when attempting to ftp into it.
M0rphF13nd said:
Hi,
So I've successfully added external (fat32) drive, formatted as internal... But can't locate it in a file manager.
I can move apps to it, but if I try migrate data; it just says could not migrate. I want to ftp into it but can only see a 4gb available partition or root.
Am I missing something or is this not possible yet?
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To just add further context...
Ive installed a 500gb USB SSD as internal storage in hopes to transfer media files to it via FTP. Despite being able to install or move apps to the USB device it appears as though I only have a 4gb capacity in any and all file managers.
M0rphF13nd said:
Hi,
So I've successfully added external (fat32) drive, formatted as internal... But can't locate it in a file manager.
I can move apps to it, but if I try migrate data; it just says could not migrate. I want to ftp into it but can only see a 4gb available partition or root.
Am I missing something or is this not possible yet?
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FAT32 disks only supports files up to 4GB even if volume size may be up to 2TB.
xXx yYy said:
FAT32 disks only supports files up to 4GB even if volume size may be up to 2TB.
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I theorize that when the drive is formatted by Chromecast to internal storage that it's changed to some proprietary variation of ext3 or ext4 anyway.
Regardless, I only formatted the drive to fat32 originally as Chromecast won't recognise any other formats such as ext or NTFS. Connecting anything but fat32 results in message "disk ejected safely".
Regardless, this was only a step towards getting it to accept the drive to format as internal. Fat32 file size limitations is irrelevant to what I'm trying to find out here.
What I'm trying is ideally going to circumvent fat32 limitations, or I would just keep it as an external, unmountable drive and drag and drop my media from a PC.