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** [GUIDE] How to format SD-Card to EXT 3 **

I have noticed that some people have problems with EXT3 formatting.
So I've put together a small HowTo guide!
In this case it's a 1gb (1024MB) partition, but simply change it to 512MB if desired.
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1. Start downloading MiniTool Partition Wizard here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10479085&postcount=82
or here
[RS] http://rapidshare.com/files/442996416/pwhe52.rar
and install it.
2. Best thing is to start up with a fresh format of your SD-card to FAT32 (MUST be primary partition)
- Start MiniTool Partition
- Find your SD card partition and rightclick it.
- Select Move/Resize
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3. Pull back the bar untill you reach 1024MB. Or simply type it in, down at the bottom
4. Rightclick the unallocated partition and select Create.
- You will get a warning. Press YES to continue
5. VERY IMPORTANT: Select Primary and EXT3
6. Rightclick the ext3 partition and select Format.
- Set File System as Ext3
- Set Cluster Size to 4KB
7. Now press Apply and confirm with YES
The changes will be applied, and you are ready to go!
- Just to point out: BOTH partitions (FAT32 & Ext3) has to be set to Primary!!
Hope this guide was usefull..
PoingDK

Hey, Thanks for this guide. I followed all the steps but after booting the phone is says sd card is damaged. Did I do something wrong?

meaxx88 said:
Hey, Thanks for this guide. I followed all the steps but after booting the phone is says sd card is damaged. Did I do something wrong?
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If you followed the guide everything should work!
Maybe the SD-card really is damaged ?
Have you tried formatting it with Panasonic SD Formatter ?
Take a look here:
http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/sd_formatter20.html

my 4gb class 2 sd card is broken too i tried with phone mass storage,mgldr massstorage and cardreader,but its really broken.
i bought a 8gb class 4 sd card and had problems, tried around the solution was i forgot step 6, format ext3 partion again seems to be important

I got this message: Failed to apply of pending changes operations abort.

mgarciar said:
I got this message: Failed to apply of pending changes operations abort.
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Hmm, haven't seen that before!
Did you format the card to FAT32 first?

poingdk said:
Hmm, haven't seen that before!
Did you format the card to FAT32 first?
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yes, I get that too.. On every program around the globe.
I tried everything, all formats, all programs say the same; they can't devide my SD into partitions.

Same problem here. I format my SD-card in mass storage modus on another phone(my dad's) Windows recognizes it, and after making ext3 partition it doesn't. I tried also every program and it never works.
Either I have internal storage and no SD-card memory, or nothing at all.
I'm really getting annoyed by this stupid Ext3.
EDIT: OKAY GUYS! VERY IMPORTANT! Do everything this man says, but also:
FAT32 MUST BE PRIMARY TOO! It worked for me. First remove everything and only make a FAT32 primary partition, then do everything he tells you.

Done so far. But how do I get things copied to that partition if I can't see it?

Sloeber94 said:
Same problem here. I format my SD-card in mass storage modus on another phone(my dad's) Windows recognizes it, and after making ext3 partition it doesn't. I tried also every program and it never works.
Either I have internal storage and no SD-card memory, or nothing at all.
I'm really getting annoyed by this stupid Ext3.
EDIT: OKAY GUSY! VERY IMPORTANT! Do everything this man says, but also:
FAT32 MUST BE PRIMARY TOO! It worked for me. First remove everything and only make a FAT32 primary partition, then do everything he tells you.
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Yep both partitions have to be primary!
I have added info to the Guide!!

no memory
I HAVE a 32gb kingston sd card and i have been repeating this process over and over and over and over again for almost a week.
Even if I set the partition to 1gb when i turn on the phone there is no memory; why doest the phone detect EXT3 as internal memory????....

gothikserpent said:
I HAVE a 32gb kingston sd card and i have been repeating this process over and over and over and over again for almost a week.
Even if I set the partition to 1gb when i turn on the phone there is no memory; why doest the phone detect EXT3 as internal memory????....
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Do everything in the tutorial but first:
Format your whole SD-card as a FAT32 partition in PRIMARY!
Then resize etc. to ext3 partition, also primary. Then it should work.
Thanks button if it helped you out!

Thanks for the suggestions but I figured out the issue but don't know how to solve it ,whenever I create the ext 3 portion and I formAt and save,the partition turns to "other" and Not ext3.
it works with my 8 gb but not the 32gb Kingston ,How can I fix this
Thank u

omg I tried another time and now my pc doesn't even recognise my card anymore

HectiQ said:
omg I tried another time and now my pc doesn't even recognise my card anymore
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Have you tried PANASONIC SD formatter ?

HectiQ said:
omg I tried another time and now my pc doesn't even recognise my card anymore
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I have this problem too. My card is death. Do you have any why try to help me to repair my card if have chance

Everytime this freaking tool, just makes my SD dead, even thouh it says successful when I partition everthing is ok. and then I reinsert the card and gone. Only way I managed to fix this is by using Clockwork Mod and going to Partition SD Card to show it back up again for me to use.
I tried at least 10 times same result.
useless.

I fix my sd card I just install Custom WM(Energy) and My phone detect the card. This method is only wich work for me. Sorry for my perfect English

hey iv got a problem in the finaly ext3 we just do finalization minitool partition (Apply) displayed error
failed to execute the following command
Resize Partition DiskIndex:1 New startingLba:32130
Error code :16
Disk I/Oerror.
please hepl

Thank you guy, thank you for the guide. Everything worked fine for me
But one noob question i have got, how is it possible after partitioning to format the complete sd from windows7 without "seeing" the partition only the Fat32... But what about the rest (ext3).. or will it be formatted automatically?
Help would be great thanks!

[Q] Internal storage

For several days I have the error message, that my internal storage is running out of space...
my tattoo's running with nFinityGB-0.93 and i've already moved as much apps as possible to sd-card... i cleared all cache-data with aCCleaner...
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is there any possibility to remove unused components of the rom? or any other way to reduce the data stored on internal storage?

Well, you could try Apps2Ext. It requires you to create two partitions on your SD card, one as Ext2 and the other as FAT.
You can repartition an SD card for apps2ext with ROM manager or clockworkmod recovery.
To use Apps2Ext, download Simple2Ext and run it. If the Memory card is properly set, it will move your apps and even your cache and data to the card ext partition freeing internal memory and allowing apps to run from the card.

sunitknandi said:
Well, you could try Apps2Ext. It requires you to create two partitions on your SD card, one as Ext2 and the other as FAT.
You can repartition an SD card for apps2ext with ROM manager or clockworkmod recovery.
To use Apps2Ext, download Simple2Ext and run it. If the Memory card is properly set, it will move your apps and even your cache and data to the card ext partition freeing internal memory and allowing apps to run from the card.
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Sounds great - thanks for the hint. I'll try it tonight, but I have one question left. I'm using the current nFinityGB, that also already provides the functionality to store apps2sd - is it the same or is it a different way of apps2sd?!
for me it sounds as if the difference is caused by the ext-partition?! currently i have no ext, so that only some data of the app can be stored on sd-card... with ext a deeper layer (osi) can be addressed?! is this correct?
thanks!

wormix500 said:
Sounds great - thanks for the hint. I'll try it tonight, but I have one question left. I'm using the current nFinityGB, that also already provides the functionality to store apps2sd - is it the same or is it a different way of apps2sd?!
for me it sounds as if the difference is caused by the ext-partition?! currently i have no ext, so that only some data of the app can be stored on sd-card... with ext a deeper layer (osi) can be addressed?! is this correct?
thanks!
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The current apps2sd in CM 7 releases is called apps2fat. This allow you to move bulky programs (.apk) into an external FAT storage, keeping data and dalvik cache in the internal memory. The reason being everything cannot be moved are the limitations of the FAT file system. And many apps that are moved to SD, especially widgets stop working properly.
Now, ext (ext2/ext3/ext4) is a linux filesystem and it supports all the requirements for apps to run properly with right permissions. Apps2Ext has an advantage that apps, data, dalvik cache, or everything can be moved into the ext partition. The phone assumes the ext partition to be an internal memory and all apps seem to run without problems. Even widgets on the homescreen work fine.
The only drawback is that, if any app is running from the ext partition (even in background), you wont be able to unmount the sd card. And it can be risky to remove card without unmounting. If u mount the phone as usb storage, only the fat partition can be used by the PC.
Other than that, Apps2Ext is a great tool. That way, if you have a 8GB card and format it to 1GB ext and 7GB fat partition, your apps will install in that ext area without messing up your data in fat and wont exceed 1GB storage in your SD card without notifying you.
Finally, Apps2Ext was called apps2sd when android was in 1.5 and 1.6 versions. From 2.2 onwards, apps2fat was made apps2sd. But you can install Simple2Ext from market and give the old Apps2Ext a try.

great explanation - thanks!

I can't access my SD card

Hi,I can't access my SD card when I in android platform.
I must enter MAGLDR for this and choose USB Mass Storage.
How do I fix it?
Thanks.

in android go to settings --> Storage and click on mount SD card ...
then connect your device to the pc
and click on the notifications and choose usb connected then click on turn on usb storage ...

I did it.
No help.
I try two ROMs:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050645
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=908528
anyone?

so you plug in the device what thecomes up? you should get a prompy to use what usb mode

you did format your sd card as fat32 for one of the partitions, right man ?

yep.I format my sd card as fat32 and 1GB ext3...

make sure Both partitions are primary. not logical.

Test another SD card
Did you test with another SD card?
I already heard some incompatibilties with some cards.
But if you SD card worked with previous version, it should not be the problem.

Dr.Move said:
make sure Both partitions are primary. not logical.
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yep.they are both are primary.
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mariegalante55 said:
Did you test with another SD card?
I already heard some incompatibilties with some cards.
But if you SD card worked with previous version, it should not be the problem.
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yep,but still I can't access my SD card when I in android platform.
How do I solve this issue?
Thanks.

If you really need that unallocated space, move it to the end of the disk. that means having FAT32 as first partition. EXT3 as second, and the unallocated space as third partition.
I'd recommend formatting using SD formatter, repartitioning it like I said then try it again. but repartitioning without format might work.

I don't need that unallocated space,I don't created it.
How do I move and arrange these partitions?
Do you recommended this app:https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/support/jp/sd/sdfv2003.exe
?
Thanks.

http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
I think they're the same though
it's made partially by panasonic I think.

You can't access it as in connect to your computer or while using your phone? Because any file manager will be able to access the SD files. If its not connecting it's probably the rom
Sent from my HD2 using XDA App

^ some ROMs can't access the card unless it has a FAT32 partition that is first and primary.

Now I can't access the SD card also when I'm in MAGLDR...
I think that this app MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition had ruined the USB access in my phone.
Because after the first time I partition my SD card through this app.
I won't be able to access my SD card when I'm in android platform.
Yesterday I re-partition my SD card through that app and now I can't access
my SD card also when I'm in MAGLDR.
When I'm in android platform and connect my phone to pc,I get the message of USB Storage in my phone.I turn it ON.
But the response in my computer is that my android phone cannot start. (Code 10)
I see this message in Devices and Printers .
When I'm in MAGLDR(choose 4.USB MasssStg) and connect my phone to pc.
I get the same message...
How can I solve this issue?
Thanks.

any response?

ayosopov said:
any response?
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I had a problem like this when I had corrupt drivers

How do I fix my drivers?

if you have an external card reader use it.
MiniTool is good, I used it before a lot.
1-use an external card reader,
2-backup your data if you can access your SD, if not, try to back your data up using minitool.
3-try to expand the FAT32 partition over that unallocated space using minitool, 4-try the card again on your phone, if it works you're all set, but formatting and repartitioning is still better

ayosopov said:
Now I can't access the SD card also when I'm in MAGLDR...
I think that this app MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition had ruined the USB access in my phone.
Because after the first time I partition my SD card through this app.
I won't be able to access my SD card when I'm in android platform.
Yesterday I re-partition my SD card through that app and now I can't access
my SD card also when I'm in MAGLDR.
When I'm in android platform and connect my phone to pc,I get the message of USB Storage in my phone.I turn it ON.
But the response in my computer is that my android phone cannot start. (Code 10)
I see this message in Devices and Printers .
When I'm in MAGLDR(choose 4.USB MasssStg) and connect my phone to pc.
I get the same message...
How can I solve this issue?
Thanks.
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Dr.Move said:
if you have an external card reader use it.
MiniTool is good, I used it before a lot.
1-use an external card reader,
2-backup your data if you can access your SD, if not, try to back your data up using minitool.
3-try to expand the FAT32 partition over that unallocated space using minitool, 4-try the card again on your phone, if it works you're all set, but formatting and repartitioning is still better
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I don't think that this SD problem,I used another SD card and same problem.
I posted in my previous post that I used minitool and I think this app harmed my phone.
Any help?

[Q] Nook wont recognize my SD card

I have a 16GB SD card that I am trying to use in my Nook and for some reason when I go to storage the card is not showing up. When I reboot the Nook I see the SD card come up in the bottom left hand corner for a second and then it is gone. Does it need to be formatted to work in the Nook?

The question implies that the card is not formatted. Yes. It needs to be formatted to work at all. What brand is it?

The card is a Sandisk, should I format it with any certain format? If I put the card in my computer I can put stuff in it no problem but the Nook is not seeing it for some reason.

Raydee35 said:
The card is a Sandisk, should I format it with any certain format? If I put the card in my computer I can put stuff in it no problem but the Nook is not seeing it for some reason.
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You were the one asking about your SD installed system and having problems and wanted to upgrade to a sandisk. So now you have your new card and you are having problems. You need to tell us more about what you are trying to do. Are you having trouble after you have burned a new SD image to it, or are you having trouble seeing the virgin card when booting to whatever system you have on emmc? Which is what system by the way? Stock or CM or something else?
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk

Ok I originally put CM7 on a older 16gb SD card so I could boot from the card but I found the performance to be slow. I then decided to wipe the Nook and start over but this time I installed CM7 right to the Nook instead of on the SD card. So now CM7 is running on my Nook as the only ROM. I then took that original 16gb card and wiped and formatted it so it was blank and decided to use it for extra storage on the Nook. The problem I am having is the Nook cannot read the card. When I put the card in my computer it shows it as a blank removable drive so I am a little stumped as to why the Nook won't read it.

Raydee35 said:
Ok I originally put CM7 on a older 16gb SD card so I could boot from the card but I found the performance to be slow. I then decided to wipe the Nook and start over but this time I installed CM7 right to the Nook instead of on the SD card. So now CM7 is running on my Nook as the only ROM. I then took that original 16gb card and wiped and formatted it so it was blank and decided to use it for extra storage on the Nook. The problem I am having is the Nook cannot read the card. When I put the card in my computer it shows it as a blank removable drive so I am a little stumped as to why the Nook won't read it.
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And you wiped and formatted with your PC which is running Windows? Which version?
You really should format it with the Nook, but if it is not seeing the card, I'm not sure it can do it. Go to storage and see if you can. If not try formatting on your PC with a card formatting program (from sandisk which I think you can get on the web) or another PC.
Since your original card was already sandisk and you were having trouble running the SD install on it, I suspect something is wrong with it. It may be defective. But maybe the formatting software from sandisk can revive it.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk

I assume the nook is finding the card, since it looks like the mounting notification occurs. What does it say in the storage settings exactly? No sdcard or the wrong storage space?
If the sdcard install was working, even if you found it slow, then mounting the card doesn't sound like the issue.You can format the card in CWM if you believe that the formatting is wrong.
If it says the wrong amount of storage, you may have checked the swap emmc/sdcard option.

Did you format the card as FAT32 or ntfs? It needs to be FAT32.

leapinlar said:
And you wiped and formatted with your PC which is running Windows? Which version?
I am using Windows 7 64bit home edition
You really should format it with the Nook, but if it is not seeing the card, I'm not sure it can do it. Go to storage and see if you can. If not try formatting on your PC with a card formatting program (from sandisk which I think you can get on the web) or another PC.
I will try that and see what happens.
Since your original card was already sandisk and you were having trouble running the SD install on it, I suspect something is wrong with it. It may be defective. But maybe the formatting software from sandisk can revive it.
I have a smaller 2gb card that I am going to try also.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
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mateorod said:
I assume the nook is finding the card, since it looks like the mounting notification occurs. What does it say in the storage settings exactly? No sdcard or the wrong storage space?
It says Unavailable.
If the sdcard install was working, even if you found it slow, then mounting the card doesn't sound like the issue.You can format the card in CWM if you believe that the formatting is wrong.
If it says the wrong amount of storage, you may have checked the swap emmc/sdcard option.
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MISRy said:
Did you format the card as FAT32 or ntfs? It needs to be FAT32.
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I formatted the card using FAT32.

When you insert the uSD in the PC, how much of storage does PC recognize? all 16GB?
Either way, try to format it with MiniTool Wizard

Ok It looks like it is only showing 14.9GB. I tried formatting it in Mini Tool and this is what I have after.
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Raydee35 said:
Ok It looks like it is only showing 14.9GB. I tried formatting it in Mini Tool and this is what I have after.
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Try deleting the partition and creating a new fat32 partition using the whole SD.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk

What does the android settings/storage say when you put in the sdcard? You said it doesn't recognize it, but it sounds like it is mounting.

leapinlar said:
Try deleting the partition and creating a new fat32 partition using the whole SD.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
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I just remembered some problems I was having a while back trying to make a larger boot image for the agnostic SD installer. If the partition image was not just right the nook would not see it. It has to do with how the Master Boot Record (MBR) was written to the card. I think if you restart with mini-tool and create a whole new partition, it may revive the card. That empty space before the partition looks fishy to me.
Sent from my Nook Color using ICS and Tapatalk

Also... if you're using a computer's internal card reader it may cause you problems... try an el cheapo USB card reader/writer.

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[FIX][TUT]Free some space to install apps on CM10 new layout

Hi,
I know everyone is facing the problem of low internal space after the change of layout......but if you notice the speed of processing has changed a lot.....BUTTERY SMOOTH.....
Remember this thread is indeed referring to external sd card and not the internal sd card which is glued to our motherboard........so please read this...
So here's a fix......
Step 1:
Remove your external sd card from the slot and put it in a card reader....Putting it in a card reader is the only way...You cannot partition the external sd card if it's inserted in the TAB....Connect the card reader to the PC
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Step 2:
Download the Home edition from this site( This tool is used for creating partitions.....we will create ext4 partition by using this on our external sdcard
http://www.partitionwizard.com/download.html
Install it
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FORMAT YOUR EXTERNAL SD CARD
Step 3:
Open the partitioning tool and then you will see some disk 1, disk 2, disk 3, and more depending on number of things you have attached to pc...Select the disk which resembles your external sd card( Do not select wrong disk as it can cause serious trouble to your computer)Well you can easily make out which one's the external sdcard by the memory space info....
I'm Partitioning my pen drive so that you can understand
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1. Right click on that disk and click Move/Resize....( a dialog box like this appears)
Move the slider from the right to left and choose the space you want as the unallocated space(This place is which 'link2sd' will use to store apps....)Then click ok....You will see that the two partitions are created
Primary
Logical( the unallocated space)
2.Right click on the unallocated space and click on create..........A dialog box will open.........Select the settings as same as in this picture(Size and location may differ)
Click OK...
3. Apply the changes by clicking apply button and let it complete the process and then a successful message will come and Voila It's done!!!!!
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Step 4:
Remove your sd card from card reader and put it in your TAB...Go to settings>>>>>storage and check whether the size of the external sd card has been reduced.....If yes....you have successfully done it!!!!
Open Link2sd app in phone>>>>>A dialog box will appear asking you for the partition>>>>>select ext4>>>>>Then select any big app>>>>click on create link and let it complete the process...
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Link2sd Google play

Hi if I already installed tbe apps will.this still work? Or do I have to reinstall all the apps for link2sd to work amd transfer the data to ext4?
Thanks
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Remove your external sd card from the slot and put it in a card reader....Putting it in a card reader is the only way...You cannot partition the external sd card if it's inserted in the TAB....Connect the card reader to the PC
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How VERY true. Sad for those who can't access to micro SD on the PC. My adaptor should be somewhere in an unknown drawer.
Seriously, I tried to mess with this procedure to get the additional partitions on the INTERNAL SD. Here, Microtool allows you to delete all Partitions, but when you apply the changes, they are simply ignored. Well, not quite, the content of the SDCard are gone. Fortunately this is not a problem, because the relevant parts of the OS reside on the fast, invisible section of the internal storage, at least IF YOU ARE USING THE NEW CM10 memory layout. So you can recover, if you saved your data.
There is a second problem associated with internal SD partitioning. Apparently there are some instructions in INIT.RC which force the internal SD to "FAT32 only". On every reboot you will notice that your reformatted internal SD is just re-formatted to FAT32. While the details (see thread on SGT II) are pretty well documented , I found the same behaviour on my SGT7. I did not dare to mess with my P1000 CM10 for lack of documentation, if the fix works at all here, it would requiere reassembling zImage which can be very dangerous.

Thanks for the HOWTO.
Worth mentioning: configure your Links2SD to Auto Link, and default Install location to Internal. Worth reading their FAQ on their website.
After flashing a new ROM, Link2SD will ask you to recreat the mount scripts (warning in notification bar), and one more reboot and everything is working again.
I will get screenshots on my next flash.
You CANNOT partition your sdcards throught the Tab's USB mount. The USB mounts the FAT32 partitions, not the whole sdcard, so you don't actually see the partition tables for either internal or external sdcards.
That's why this procedure if for the EXTERNAL sdcard (very cheap on ebay. US$13 for a 16GB Class 10 sdcard, or just a couple bucks for an 8GB Class 4 sdcard).