Re: Formatting a 2Gb MicroSD card

[Sebastian Tennant]

Quoth Jim Meyering <address@hidden>:
> Sebastian Tennant <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I decided to format it with the one true disk partitioner and have done
>> so successfully but the capacity of the card now appears to be
>> approximately half what it was before.
>
> What command(s) did you use?

The usual... 'mklabel msdos', 'print', 'mkpartfs pri fat16 0 1016'.  I
tried 2032 but having created the new label (partition table) 1016 was
the maximum value parted would allow me to use.

> What version of parted?

1.7.1

> So there's a printed label that says it's a 2GB card?

Yup.

> Does cfdisk /dev/sdc show anything different?

Nope.

Thinking back I think the card must have already been formatted when I
bought it from the shop (for use with my phone).  Either way, my phone
formats it as a 1Gb card too now.

Apart from losing data, I now remember noticing some weirdness before
invoking 'parted mklabel msdos' on the card.  I would receive different
capacity information depending on whether I issued the command
'parted print /dev/sdc' or 'parted print /dev/sdc1', and IIRC only the
latter command indicated that there was 2Gb of capacity.

Sebastian

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