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Root Help with aligning FAT32

arkazain

arkazain

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Right, so I'm following this guide, which was recommended by baadnwz, but I'm having a little trouble, specifically this part:

Aligning FAT32 said:
You will need to perform the following steps in fdisk:
Delete the existing partition
Create a new partition that starts at cylinder 1 and ends at the end of the disk
Mark the partition as a FAT32 (LBA) partition type, which is hex type "0x0C".
Enter expert mode and change the beginning of data to sector 256. (Sector 256 x 512 bytes/sector = 128K (131,072 bytes)
Return from expert mode and write the changes to disk.
Press q to quit at any time while in fdisk before writing your changes if you feel uncomfortable or don't understand what you are doing.
I don't want to provide a step by step here, since it would be too easy to just blindly type it all in and mess something up. Read, learn and understand what you are doing before you jump in! Research fdisk (man fdisk) and get to know the program. It's easy, but it takes a little learning to grasp the concepts. The information above will guide you easily along once you know fdisk.
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I can't find any good guides, and I honestly have no idea of what to do, so if anyone can help me, or just point me to a good guide, that would be great!
 
When you load the GPartEd Live CD and connect your phone (I'd use a card reader personally) you'll see the current layout. You can either delete all partitions and start again or drag the EXT partition larger/smaller and convert to EXT4 if you want to. You can do anything!
 
arkazain said:
So I should just use Gparted as if this is my first time partitioning my SD card?
What will happen to the old partition?
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Deleting partitions will........ delete them! All data on those partitons will be lost so make back ups if you need to.

In Gparted just select the drive your working on, select the partition, select delete. If you have another patition to delete just reeat the step, then go to I think edit and apply, this will perform the selected actions. then select new partition, size, ntfs, fat32 etc. apply again.

Lecter or Hardon or someone who knows their stuff around here has a guide, have a look in some siggies.
 
InfernalByte said:
Deleting partitions will........ delete them! All data on those partitons will be lost so make back ups if you need to.

In Gparted just select the drive your working on, select the partition, select delete. If you have another patition to delete just reeat the step, then go to I think edit and apply, this will perform the selected actions. then select new partition, size, ntfs, fat32 etc. apply again.

Lecter or Hardon or someone who knows their stuff around here has a guide, have a look in some siggies.
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Yeah, it's in my sig.
 
This is its description:

"GParted uses libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables while several (optional) filesystem tools provide support for filesystems not included in libparted."

So basically, this would be GParted in an application instead of a live CD, so this should work right?
 
At 7:04 in your video, you put 1348, what should I put?
I have a 4 GB card.

Edit:
Should I put 3584?
4096-512=3584
 
arkazain said:
I'm at the part where I specify the size of the FAT32 partition.
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Well take 512 or 1024 (depending on what size ext you need) from 4096 and make the answer the size of your fat.

Well take it from 4000 as a 4GB card isn't actually 4GB
 
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