How do I wipe my USB storage? - Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi.
How do I fully wipe my internel sd card using CWM? And what do I wipe sdcard0 or storage/sdcard0? I want all my space back.
When I went to wipe storage/sdcard0 It gave my the option of five different file systems to use (default, vfat, exfat,ntfs,ext4,ext3 or ext2?). Which one do I use?
Cheers.

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wiping EXT Partion

Just wondering if I wipe my EXT then will I have to re-partion my SDCard? Also will I loose my data on it?
Thanks
I am certainly no expert, but I'm pretty sure if you use your recovery to wipe it only erases the EXT. Nothing is removed from the fat32 portion. I've always repaired ext after a wipe as well. No need to repartition, once your setup your just wiping and repairing.
Depends what data your talking about.
EXT : yes.
Use Titanium Backup to save your Apps + Data to your SD card.
I also go into partition sd and run Repair EXT. Fat32 will not be affected by this wipe.
If you re-partition you SD you will lose data. This is not necessary unless your getting issues flashing something.
Just make a backup with Titanium then one of your entire SD card (fat32) to your computer. PM me if you have any questions.
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Format SD-EXT in CWM or ADB??

Hello,
I was doing a fresh install of a ROM on my LG Revolution through CWM.
I wiped everything but i can't seem to format my sd-ext.
How do i do it?
Thanks!!
its under mounts and storage
HI
That's also a question for me.
your answer is short.
in the cwm menu, partition in ext4, i don't have choice, it is only for internal sd card

no external sd in recovery

i have my rom on my external sd so that when I wipe data on my internal it wont erase it, but when I go to apply zip from sd card it give no option for external. Only when I go inside the internal I see the obvious folder for external sd, but theres no files. I dont want to transfer my rom to internal and then it disappear when I wipe system and data before I flash the rom.
oh yeah....v2.5.1.3 cmw
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i have my rom on my external sd so that when I wipe data on my internal it wont erase it, but when I go to apply zip from sd card it give no option for external. Only when I go inside the internal I see the obvious folder for external sd, but theres no files. I dont want to transfer my rom to internal and then it disappear when I wipe system and data before I flash the rom.
oh yeah....v2.5.1.3 cmw
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you will need the zip file to install your rom on the internal sd, it will not install from the ext sd....when you do a wipe of data it will not erase your int sd, believe me I have a ton of files on my inter sd, with lots of zip files of roms that I have install.
so what you have to do if you have already wiped and you are sitting on the red CWM...is plug the usb cable to your phone from pc, after you are in cwm go to mounts usb storage...hit that, you should see it the inter sd pop in your windows explorer, copy your rom to install over to your phone, then do your wipes it will not take the files away from your inter sd...then install your rom...
the only way to errase all the information from the INTERNAL SD, is going into CWM, advanced options, erase or delete all the information with the options on there
i just booted into stock GB and did a factory reset with a format usb. After it restarted, i put the rom on my internal. I wanted my internal to be wiped clean before i installed. You just dont know the crap left behind from old roms.
I think it's because of CWM is not mapped correctly. Correct me if am wrong.

Internal sdcard getting full

Curiously wondering why my internal sdcard is now saying I only have 5gb of storage space available.
I have a 32 GB Samsung galaxy s3 I have no music or pictures stored on my internal card. Seems like it all started when I went to a cm10 ROM then back to a touchwiz.
Maybe ther is a method I could use to format the internal storage and start from nothing?
Use DiskUsage to see what is using up your internal memory. You can use cwm or twrp to format internal memory.
I did find a 3gb movie that I had placed on the phone to watch. So based on disk usage. I have 16gb of system data and now 10gb free
Occasionally you might have to format your internal card if you switch flash many different roms as they tend to live "residuals" behind. Then there is the renaming of sd folders when you switched to aosp roms
If I decide to format the internal sdcard is it simple, reformat, reflash ROM backup? Or should I set everything back to stock first?
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Make sure you manually back up all your data(pics, documents, music, files, etc.) that you want to keep. Then format internal memory. I would remove the external sd card to be on the safe side.
I am not sure about restoring rom backup. When I do format my internal card, I usually end up flashing a new rom (with the whole wipe data, cache, and system procedure).
Hopefully someone else can answer that question about restoring rom backup.
Did you backup your system ie nandroid with cwm or something like titanium bu? Hoe many times did you do if you did? Which back up utility are you using?
And download Storage Anlyser from play its the BEST way to find the big files.
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(with the whole wipe data, cache, and system procedure
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Always wipe.
I've not formated the internal card yet, when I do new ROMs I only factory reset phone, cache, delvik then install new ROM.
My method of backing up my apps is by using my backup pro, but I do keep backups of my ROMs just by booting into cwm then backing up.
I want to format the internal card, but that's something I've never did. Which makes me worry about losing needed phone drivers.. Etc.
Also I'm not sure if I'll lose root or my recovery.
You will not lose root, recovery, or drivers, It is basically formatting your micro sd card, but instead it is your internal "sd card."
You will definitely need to manually backup the data you want to keep from your internal memory, either by connecting to a computer and copying to your computer or by copying them to the micro sd card.
I now have 25.6gb free space on my internal card

[Q]Install large app to external sd card

So I just got a Galaxy Trend Plus and manage to get it root and install cwm. Now I want to install several large game like Gangstar or NFS. The problem is currently I only have 313 mb in my internal storage but I also got a 8 gb external SD card. I know that game like Gangstar only got apk about 20-30 mb but it data is over 1gb. So my question is is there a way to install the data directly into the extSD not the intSd or atleast least link the game with the data that I put in the extSD?? I already tried link2sd but it's no good and Foldermount I must have the data in the internal sd before mount it to the extSD.
Try int2ext.
First partition your sd card with a fat32 and a desirable size ext2, 3 or 4 partition.
This works best with newly flashed devices.
1. Backup your present ROM just incase
1. Wipe data/ factory reset
2. Wipe cache partition
3. Wipe dalvik cache (under advanced)
4. Format /system (under mount)
5. Flash your desired Rom/zips
6. Flash int2ext
7. Reboot

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