Format SD Cards to Fat32 or NTFS

[D4damage]

What's the easiest way to format sd cards on the pandora ?


I've tried using gparted but it just ends up corrupting the cards.


I've followed the below post to set up a ext3 partition which worked fine, but I've lost compatibility with Windows systems:


When I first inserted the card it did nothing, didn't appear on the desktop. Opened up terminal and typed: sudo fdisk /dev/mmcblk0 (use mmcblk1 for the second slot)





't' then '83' to change the partition type to linux, then 'w' to save.





sudo mkfs.ext3 -m 0 /dev/mmcblk0p1





Then wait about 10 minutes while it formats.


Is there a similar command to the above I could run to set my cards as fat32 or ntfs ?

 

[sverm]

The "Panasonic SD format utility" (for Windows) has been reported to work well, as it did with me also. Mind you, I chose quick format only, not a full format, and selected FAT32.


Panasonic has it here on their site.

 

[WizardStan]

To format on the Pandora, you need dosfstools package

sudo opkg update

sudo opkg install dosfstools

Note that this will install some things to your NAND, possibly filling up another 30-40MB of space. After which you'll have "mkfs.msdos" which can create FAT32 paritions.


Or you can just format it on your desktop.

 

[D4damage]

To format on the Pandora, you need dosfstools package

sudo opkg update

sudo opkg install dosfstools

Note that this will install some things to your NAND, possibly filling up another 30-40MB of space. After which you'll have "mkfs.msdos" which can create FAT32 paritions.


Or you can just format it on your desktop.

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

 

[D4damage]

I tried that using:


sudo mkfs.msdos -m 0 /dev/mmcblk0p1


Unfortunatly this didn't format the card as expected. I couldn't browse to it from some applications. What would be the command for putting at fat32 or ntfs file system on it ?

 

[D4damage]

Anyone ?

 

[Vitel]

Open up a terminal and type: sudo fdisk /dev/mmcblk0 (use mmcblk1 for the second slot)


't' then 'b' to change the partition type to FAT32, then 'w' to save.


sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/mmcblk0p1