Since i used on My Samsung Galaxy Note 3 only EXT4 Formates Card and My Main OS is Linux.
I Prefer to use it on my Tablet too.
But i cant use those Cards on my Tablet since it says Not Supportet.
I Know there is ParagonNTFS but NTFS is Windows and not my Favorite.
Has Someone Found a Way to Patch the System to get EXT3 and/or EXT4 running.
Should'nt be hard since the Internal Card is Running on EXT4
And Yes my Tablet is Rooted because i Want to Put Isos for OS installations on the Card.
And the DriveDroid as Software to get the PC's Bootin from it.
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Hello
Sometimes i want to move file that's bigger then 4G to a sd-cart. Unfortunately FAT32 don't support this
So I asked google and google didn't know eather, but he gave me interesting project. Android-x86
Android-x86 supports NTFS as file system.
So i was wandering, if in kernel i turn module ntfs on, will i be possible to convert fat32 partition to ntfs?
will it work then?
[edit] I know I can change fat32 to ext3/4 but will it be mounted to /sd-cart/ so i'll be able to write/read it from the phone?[/edit]
really interesting any news about this???
anyway some notice about other platform??? how is it possible that still today don't exist an operative system for smartphone with filesystem support more than old fat32 4gb data??? this has no sense for me
confiq said:
[edit] I know I can change fat32 to ext3/4 but will it be mounted to /sd-cart/ so i'll be able to write/read it from the phone?[/edit]
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I realise I'm replying to an old post but as there's been recent activity on this thread...
I'd just use an ext2 partition. If you're running A2SD you probably have one already. I run MCR 3.2 on my Hero & this partition is mounted (as a result of A2SD) on /system/sd & is obviously read/write. Max filesize under ext2/3 is 16GB for a 1KB blocksize.
anything happen with this? with the wealth of tablets coming out with the ability to mount host powered usb harddrives it would be great to be able to read/write (or even just read) ntfs natively within Android. formatting to Ext3 is the only option at the moment and is a bit of a ballache if i want to use the drive for anything else or take it to a friends etc.
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anything happen with this? with the wealth of tablets coming out with the ability to mount host powered usb harddrives it would be great to be able to read/write (or even just read) ntfs natively within Android. formatting to Ext3 is the only option at the moment and is a bit of a ballache if i want to use the drive for anything else or take it to a friends etc.
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Havent heard anything yet. But you can use the EXT2/3 FS driver for windows to make your life a little easier. I use it when I pull hdds out of my NAS.
http://www.fs-driver.org/
Update: The SD card I'm using for this is brand new and it is showing corruption sometimes. I think that the SD card is broken but I'm not sure. While I am debugging this I will not give more details to avoid other's damage. In the meantime, if someone is interested and wants to take the risk, please PM me.
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In summary, this is a method to mount from the PC a sd-ext formatted partition on the SD card inside the phone.
The linux kernel inside Android can potentially understand ext2/3/4, NTFS and other advanced filesystems, but you have to mount them manually to see their data within the phone. That is a hassle, but it can be solved if you are root. However, if you connect your phone to your PC with this setup the alternative filesystems in the external SD card cannot be seen from the PC.
I did not find in Internet how to solve the latter issue, but I figured it out. So here I will explain how:
see the ext4 partition within the phone <-- this is not new!!
see the ext4 partition by connecting the phone to a Linux PC <-- these are the news!!
I do not have a lot of time now to explain the steps in detail. I will update the post later, but basically:
- Using Ubuntu and gparted, I formatted my external SD card with 2 partitions: first one small (32MiB) FAT to satisfy Android and second one big (~16GiB) ext4 where my data remains. This assures that the FAT filesystem cannot grow above the 32MiB limit.
- Then, with Ubuntu and fdisk I deleted (yeah!) the partition table and created a new partition table that says that the FAT filesystem occupies the entire SD card space. This step is the important, it means that the whole card will be exported from the phone when connected to a PC (since the partition table says that there is only one big partition for the whole SD card). However, due to the small size format in the first step the FAT partition cannot grow above the 32MiB mark (where the ext4 filesystem still resides).
- With this setup you can still access the ext4 data (it will not be touched by FAT accesses!!) using mount and the loop device, both from within the phone and from a PC with Linux (if you have another OS, maybe you can use a VM with Linux).
More or less, that's all without the details. I'll update this post later with a step-by-step guide.
Thanks to share that information...
You are welcome. It is a pity that my SD card is not working properly with my phone (it works Ok in the PC). I think that it is a kernel (Froyo) problem so I planned to upgrade to Gingerbread before doing more tests. But right now I have no time...
Hi,
I just wondering if someone did something similar to what i want?
I had a HTC incredible S (unrooted) with 8 GB sd card and Viewsonic V7 tablet rooted with 16SD (2 partition ext4 & Fat32). I planning to swap the SD card since i used/carry regurly the phone. My question is does simple copy and paste to the laptop/external HD all the files both SD card will work. I dont have a 3rd sdcard so i need a third storage device. I mean backup all the files using simple file explorer copy/paste and swap restore, will it work. Im a linux user so im wondering if maybe there some low level feature in the SD like boot on UUID or something similiar. im concern since my rooted tablet has a link2sd and some but not all program installed/link to the 16gb sdcard maybe will cause a problem like inode,hardlink etc problem related. My concern is the ext4 partition since all link apps installed in that partition.
How about a low level backup swap restore like DD/ddrescue or or similar imaging backup or simple rsync all files including hidden files.
(simple image DD the 8 GB and 16 gb and swap and restore the image).
Hope can someone did some similar task and share some info before i start this kind of process..
Hello all.
Phone, OS and Problem Description
I have some problems with my klte, always running a fairly recent Lineeage OS 14.x ersion. Sometimes when taking photos or having other write access to my external sd card, my phone reboots. It just crashes and the picture taken is not being saved properly. If I mount the sdcard using a microsd-to-sd adapter on my linux machine, I can see the corrupted file.
I them have to put the sd card into a Windows PC (i don't own one, but others in my household luckily do) to clean up the exFAT partition. This is a no go and often very annoying when travelling or being at work. Even TWRP won’t do.
Perhaps the sd card is broken, it's a Transcend Premium 64GiB Class 10 UHS-1 microsd card.
Anyway. I'd like to use ext4 (w/o journal), btrfs or f2fs or any other FS on my external sdcard as the only partition. I can mount and fsck that on my linux and in TWRP.
So, what did I do so far?
I tried f2fs.
Sadly, if i write a folder to such a partition in LOS14 using FX file explorer, it will belong to u1_a12 and the very same app won't even be able to list files in that directory. Yes, the execute bit is missing on that folder. So this won't work.
I tried ext4
Same as above
btrfs perhaps?
I didn’t try it so far.
Does this work with Resurrection Remix, Slim or crDroid? Are there any other options? I loved SlimBean on my Galaxy Nexus, but there isn’t a current official release for klte, sadly.
Any recommendations? I’m open to switching my rom, I had ResurrectionRemix Marshmallow for a year or so on my S5. Also, I’d be open for other ideas how to check my sdcard more thoroughly. Perhaps using badblocks or F3.
Thanks in advance for your opinion and input!
Any progress on this?
Hello, I was unable to find any threads on this so I am making my own. I am running a 2017 Shield TV 16 GB. My OS is the Developer only 7.2.1 image with unlocked bootloader, and Magisk root (I don't have TWRP yet as I am waiting on an updated version that'll work with 7.2.1). My issue is this. I've never had a problem linking/moving apps to an SD card on a rooted phone via mounting a second partition. I have an external 128GB SSD I've added to my Shield. First I partitioned the SSD with two nearly equal size partitions with exFAT file systems, both primary. Once the drive is plugged in I have two options. One is to make the drive adoptable storage which forces me to format to one exFAT partition. So from there I used the app App2SD Pro which has a partitioning tool built in. Every time I use it it would say it was successful and reboot. However, upon reboot I was always back to square one. I also tried the app Aparted but it would force close every time I tried to open it because its not made for android TV I suppose. So I started over with option 2. Keeping the drive as removable storage with the two exFAT partitions instead of making it adopted storage. I tried three different apps: App2SD Pro, AppMgr lll, and Link2SD. All of these couldn't see the second partition! I tried remounting and everything. I even SSH-ed into my shield with WinSCP on my laptop and tried to manually move the apps to no avail. I have a terminal emulator on my Shield but as I understand gparted can't run on an android terminal, so I can't manually partition the drive while plugged into the shield. I am straight up stumped at this point. Any help would be appreciated.
Thread closed as per OP's request.