hey people
ive run into a bit of a problem i removed my 8gb microsd card from my htc magic and formatted it to fat32 and also have created a fat 32 partition on it named EXT2, now heres where the issue arrises i place it back into the phone and swicth it on plug it into the usb on my vista laptop and mount the card through the phones options but it doesnt show up in the windows explorer so i can transfer anything to it? however if i put it in an adaptor and run windows explorer it sees it no probs, any ideas how to get the remount working!!!!
also does the scond partition need to be fat32 also or ? and ive called it EXT2 in caps not ext2 in lower case will this be an issue
stevetigersix said:
also does the scond partition need to be fat32 also or ? and ive called it EXT2 in caps not ext2 in lower case will this be an issue
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Your problem here is you don't understand the difference between FAT32 and EXT2 file systems. Google is your friend...do some reading. Your Windows won't be able to read an EXT2 partition without some specialist software. A Linux PC will be able to read both.
Creating a FAT32 partition and naming EXT2 is not an EXT2 partition. I'd suggest you download a Linux Live CD e.g. Ubuntu and run Gparted to create a EXT2 partition on your SD Card.
The Android runs using a Linux Kernel and natively supports EXT2.
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How can I view the files on my sd card in the ext2 partition?
I have one fat32 and one ext2 which my apps are on but every file viewer app in my G1 phone or computer only lets me see whats in the fat32 one, so how could I access it it?
I have windows vista and ubuntu (which I dont know how to use well) pc
and my sd card is an 8gb class 6 with 500 mb of the ext2 and rest is fat32, I just want to access the ext2 and view its files
someone please help and thank you
tanner2007 said:
How can I view the files on my sd card in the ext2 partition?
I have one fat32 and one ext2 which my apps are on but every file viewer app in my G1 phone or computer only lets me see whats in the fat32 one, so how could I access it it?
I have windows vista and ubuntu (which I dont know how to use well) pc
and my sd card is an 8gb class 6 with 500 mb of the ext2 and rest is fat32, I just want to access the ext2 and view its files
someone please help and thank you
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You would have to load ubuntu and use a card reader to view the files on your ext2 partition.
Or, as an alternative, you could download terminal emulator from the market. Open up the app, then type this:
$su
#cd /system/sd
to view the files in your ext2 partiton.
while your in /system/sd you may want to change to a different directory, such as app or data, you could use this command:
$su
#cd /system/sd
#cd app
#ls
where you would substitute app for another directory such as app-private, data, dalvik-cache, etc.
when you want to move up a directory type this:
#cd ..
and whenever you want to view whatever folders or files are present in the directory you're in, type this:
#ls
hope this helps.
if you are using ubuntu, you will need an sdcard reader, you won't be abel to ea dthe ext2 partition form windos (not that am aware of) inserd the sd card or i think if you plug the phone nd u have teh drivers ubuntu will read and mount the sd card should appear in yoru desktop both partitions with an icond of a hard drive
thanks but I wannna see and be able to move files and etc like in windows..well im new to ubuntu and not sure how but yes I have my phone and an sd card reader
so where are they located
am i just an idiot or what? i made an ext2 partition on my sdcard, and it wont let me put anything on it. i'm doing this half for my apps and half to install debian. but why the f cant i do anything with it?? it wont let me change permissions so am i in the reference to south park "f'd in the a?"
Can it be deleted?
on a linux distro
fsck -p /your sdcard partition/
On windows I don't know.
i have the same problem.
same answer .
In fact you have 2 solutions:
1) repair your partition ON A LINUX DISTRIBUTION with : fsck -p /sdcard partition
2) reformat the partition.
so i just format both the fat32 and ext2 partitions?
m00b3rt said:
so i just format both the fat32 and ext2 partitions?
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Usually Stale NFS file handles only appear on ext2 so just formatting that should be enough.
format is really windowish as a linux user.
I'm not the type : " oh it doesn't work... FORMAT !!!!"
Sorry ...
thanks for the help everyone.
i just repartition my sd card on Knoppix.
Hey, just found a program that formats your sd card(fat32 and ext2). It's called SDFormatter. Unlike others, Paragon would not format my sd card's ext2 for some reason. This helped out a lot. And thanks to LucidREM for getting me set back up with apps to sd via his superb script.
I'm using Paragon Partition Manager (9.0 special edition) and an 8GB MicroSD card, and would like to make two partitions, one with the android files, and the other one so that I can put all my other stuff in. Is there a way that I can see my second partition in windows once I connect my phone to my computer, and what type of partition should I make? I can choose between FAT32, NTFS, and Linux ext2 and ext3.
Thanks in advance.
Ideally you are supposed to make 3 partitions:
First partition is the biggest partition (Fat32)
Second partition should be around 256MB
Third partition should also be around 256MB
I also have an 8GB card. However 8GB is really 7.61GB
If i remember correctly what i did was i shrank the sd card from 7.61GB to about 7.10GB...........which created approximately a second partition of 516MB or so.
Then i split that 516 in half so i had 2 partitions of 258MB.
Then i formatted the two 256MB partitions to ext2
***Important***
The fat32 partition (7.10GB) should be the first partition (must be on the left)
Then the other 2 partitions should come after the fat32 partition.
Failure to do this may cause the sd card to not be recognized in windows computer (i think)
Well I got it working with Paragon Partition Manager. I created two ext3 but I had to modify cluster size to 4.
Link2SD wouldn't recognize 2 cluster ext3 and it couldn't mount 8 cluster ext3.
Hey everyone,
I was curious to know what filesystem to use when I format an microSD card for my G2. I'm using Windows 7 and can either do NTFS, FAT32 or exFAT (FAT64). I'm curious to use exFAT, but I have no clue if it will work properly.
A friend told me I needed to use EXT3/4 but I'm not using linux so I can't format my card that way.
Thanks!
senser1080 said:
Hey everyone,
I was curious to know what filesystem to use when I format an microSD card for my G2. I'm using Windows 7 and can either do NTFS, FAT32 or exFAT (FAT64). I'm curious to use exFAT, but I have no clue if it will work properly.
A friend told me I needed to use EXT3/4 but I'm not using linux so I can't format my card that way.
Thanks!
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Use FAT32 and you will be fine.
Kirby
use fat32 for normal sdcard storage.. then if you want to use Apps to sd-ext you need to use Cwm to partition the card for ext2 then upgrade to ext3 or ext4.... also you could make a partition for linux-swap.... but your rom/kernel must support ext4 and/or swap for it to work.... so do some research.... and make a backup of every thing on the card before you format...
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Hi all thanks for any previous help I now have android on my sd. I have a small problem when I connect to usb lead that my phone shows as a drive but is greyed out can't access it? any ideas.
it's ok I sorted it.
How did you fix your problem as I can't access my phone through USB either.
Have the same problem.
Apparently the drive letter in Windows is attached to Ext2 partition and not FAT32.
I can't change the letters in Windows and can't activate FAT32 partition.
Any ideas?
It's interesting to see that I'm not the only one who's got the same problem.
@dindia2 How did you know that the partition that it was attached to was FAT32 and not EXT2 (I take it that's the main internal partition that you're referring to?)
borgmanjayce said:
It's interesting to see that I'm not the only one who's got the same problem.
@dindia2 How did you know that the partition that it was attached to was FAT32 and not EXT2 (I take it that's the main internal partition that you're referring to?)
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That's exactly the problem - in Windows EXT2 was attached - i figured that out when I tried to format it - it was only 1.5GB - the size of EXT2
I eventually used xRecovery to format it to 2GB ext2, 54MB swap and the rest of 32GB for fat 32
Sorry for delay, Danny
dindia2 said:
That's exactly the problem - in Windows EXT2 was attached - i figured that out when I tried to format it - it was only 1.5GB - the size of EXT2
I eventually used xRecovery to format it to 2GB ext2, 54MB swap and the rest of 32GB for fat 32
Sorry for delay, Danny
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So I take it the only way to fix this problem is to format the phone itself? If so, that sucks!