Re: Android and the 64 billion bytes question.

2013-10-10 Thread shimi
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:54 AM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/10/2013 9:48 AM, shimi wrote: > >> >> Flashback from the past: Problems in sector 0 on floppies :) >> > > I guess Peter Norton isn't Jewish. Or as a less obscure reference, the > Norton Utilities to r

Re: Android and the 64 billion bytes question.

2013-10-09 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 10/10/2013 9:48 AM, shimi wrote: Flashback from the past: Problems in sector 0 on floppies :) I guess Peter Norton isn't Jewish. Or as a less obscure reference, the Norton Utilities to read the SECOND FAT did not make it to Israel. Like a backup superblock, DOS has a backup FAT. Geoff.

Re: Android and the 64 billion bytes question.

2013-10-09 Thread shimi
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:35 AM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 10/10/2013 8:50 AM, Ira Abramov wrote: > >> I also thought splitting the card into two 32G partitions could save me >> from loosing more than one partition at once, if anything bad happens. >> > > Unle

Re: Android and the 64 billion bytes question.

2013-10-09 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 10/10/2013 8:50 AM, Ira Abramov wrote: I also thought splitting the card into two 32G partitions could save me from loosing more than one partition at once, if anything bad happens. Unless it is a software error, it is unlikely that if one partition goes on the card, the other will survive.

Re: Android and the 64 billion bytes question.

2013-10-09 Thread Ira Abramov
Like I said, ExFAT is not an issue with my desktop, only with my CWM recovery. it seems CyanogenMod have a CWM fused into their kernel, so if I try to install a newer CWM or TWRP, I still get the older CWM that won't support ExFAT. I also thought splitting the card into two 32G partitions could sa

Re: Android and the 64 billion bytes question.

2013-10-09 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Yes, there is, but just like with FAT, FAT32, NTFS, SMB etc - you won't see Microsoft chasing Ubuntu, CentOS or Red Hat for royalties. MS is asking royalties from the hardware vendors, not from you or your favorite distribution. BTW: Both Fedora and Ubuntu already support exfat. תודה, *חץ בן חמו

Re: Android and the 64 billion bytes question.

2013-10-09 Thread Udi Finkelstein
Weren't there any patent issues with exFAT? Udi On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi, > > The ExFAT was invented by Microsoft specifically for such a removable > storage and support for flash cards with this sizes (it supports up to 64 > ZB). Its fully supported under An

Re: Android and the 64 billion bytes question.

2013-10-09 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, The ExFAT was invented by Microsoft specifically for such a removable storage and support for flash cards with this sizes (it supports up to 64 ZB). Its fully supported under Android (Samsung wrote the kernel module, so there's a native support for it), and you can grab the kernel module from

Android and the 64 billion bytes question.

2013-10-09 Thread Ira Abramov
Now do you format a 64GB SDXC card to use with Android? the opinions on the web are all over the place. some say it's OK to keep ExFat (it came formatted) since it's pretty stable in FUSE and the Cyanogenmod supports it. others say one should partition it down to two 32GB parts of Fat32 for compati