White Demon
Sandy Wich's Boy
I received my GP2X and 2GB Sandisk SD card last week, no card reader at the time. So I hooked my GP2X up to my Linux box and proceeded to copy files to the card for use (didn't format it first).
Today I got my card reader, and wanting to upgrade the firmware, I formatted it to FAT32 under WinXP.
I checked the properties, and it was saying that my newly formatted FAT32 partition, with nothing on it, has 968MB used and 965MB free. Huh? I just formatted it, so there should be 2GB free. SO i tried another test - formatted it back to FAT16, and it displayed as 968 used/968 free.
What the hell?
So I popped the card into my GP2X, connected it all up to linux again and run mkfs.msdos -F 32 -I /dev/sda and after putting it back in my card reader, it showed up as FAT32, 4KB used/1.89GB free (as it should). But here's the kicker - I decided to try formatting it in my card reader again (in Windows) and Windows showed the same thing - 968 used/965 free when formatted as FAT32.
Explain that if you can. What the hell is going on?
Today I got my card reader, and wanting to upgrade the firmware, I formatted it to FAT32 under WinXP.
I checked the properties, and it was saying that my newly formatted FAT32 partition, with nothing on it, has 968MB used and 965MB free. Huh? I just formatted it, so there should be 2GB free. SO i tried another test - formatted it back to FAT16, and it displayed as 968 used/968 free.
What the hell?
So I popped the card into my GP2X, connected it all up to linux again and run mkfs.msdos -F 32 -I /dev/sda and after putting it back in my card reader, it showed up as FAT32, 4KB used/1.89GB free (as it should). But here's the kicker - I decided to try formatting it in my card reader again (in Windows) and Windows showed the same thing - 968 used/965 free when formatted as FAT32.
Explain that if you can. What the hell is going on?