Thread: Format 8GB SDHC card
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mwiktowy is offline mwiktowy
2007-03-21 , 15:54
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Originally Posted by johsua View Post
I did that when I was trying various things last night, but it still only formated to 2GB with a 7.5GB partition set up. I'll double check though tonight just in case I am mis-remembering what I did exactly.
Maybe it is just in issue with the free space indicator. I have seen that in old (and not so old) Windows systems. The partition will be big and formatted correctly to the full capacity but the free space will be reported incorrectly ... only up to some max. Try nearly filling up the partition with stuff and see if it will take it and if the free space is reported correctly below 2 GB. Know that FAT32 can have only <2GB per file so you will need a few separate big files to fill it up.

Doing:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/mmc1/bigfileofzeros1 bs=1M count=2000

a few times with incrementing names of "of=" should do the trick
... or just cart over a pile of movies and such via USB.

You should consider reporting a bug on this to the maemo bugzilla regardless.