Partitioning SD-Card

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How to format/partition SD card?

I want to partition SD-Card to use the Link2SD on android based mobile phone. I should make two partitions.

• first a Fat partition for the user data
• second an ext4 for the applications

How can I do this?

Answer 1

There are many ways of doing it. I am assuming that you have a card reader.

Start gparted and make the partitions.

You can do it from the terminal.

List all disks

sudo fdisk -l

You need to figure out which disk is your card; it's usually something like /dev/sdc. I will use "xxx".

sudo fdisk /dev/xxx

Some fdisk commands:

• d: delete partition
• n: create a partition
• l: list types
• t: set type (c for fat32. 83 for Linux)
• w: save
• q: quit without making any changes

Then you create filesystems with a command:

sudo mkfs -t vfat -F 32 /dev/xxx1
sudo mkfs -t ext4 /def/xxx2