Amount of storage space recognized by Android-x86

[Billy Thompson]

I have successfully installed the new Android-x86 4.4-RC2 release on a Lenovo S10 netbook with 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD. The process was very straightforward and the results are really more than I had hoped for. Dual boot to the original Windows XP Home Edition using Grub seems to work fine too.  So thank you very much to the authors and supporters of this program... great work indeed.

What I want to do though is make more storage show up as available to Android. I can change the size of the installation partition if needed, and there is an SD card slot available on this netbook. I installed into an NTFS logical partition of 67.10GB.  Under Android Settings/Storage, Internal Storage reports Total Space of 504MB.  There is an SD card section that contains Mount SD Card, and four USB Storage sections each containing Mount SD Card greyed-out.  Selecting the Mount SD Card in the SD card section does nothing.

So it appears to me that only 504MB are available to Android. Is there a way to make additional storage available either with a reinstall or through configuration settings?

Thanks for your help.  Billy

[mike r]

Install As R/W, I Have 15.9 Gigs And It shows 15.9 As My Totaly "SD Card Storage"

Got Almost 8 Gigs Worth Of Apps On It already....

Mike

[mike r]

On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 3:03:57 PM UTC-5, Billy Thompson wrote:

[Billy Thompson]

mike r, thanks for the quick reply and the screenshot.  That is exactly the result I am looking for and it sounds easy to accomplish.... I just don't recall a step in the installation where the selection of R/W could be made. How did you install as R/W?

Thanks... Billy

[Chih-Wei Huang]

2014-07-03 0:18 GMT+08:00 Billy Thompson <b.thomp...@gmail.com>:
> mike r, thanks for the quick reply and the screenshot. That is exactly the
> result I am looking for and it sounds easy to accomplish.... I just don't
> recall a step in the installation where the selection of R/W could be made.
> How did you install as R/W?

If you install android-x86 to an ntfs or vfat partition,
it can't be R/W. It's the limitation of the current installer.
I'm considering to improve it later.
But so far you just can't.
The limited size of internal storage is also
due to installation to ntfs or vfat.

So the suggestion is, create an ext3 partition to
install android-x86.

[mike r]

+1

[Billy Thompson]

That worked great -- formatting as ext3 r/w gave me the storage I expected. One thing though, I needed to boot to Windows and do the formatting from NTFS to ext3 with a partition utility from there for it to work. Just specifying to format to ext3 in the installer resulted in ERROR 17 on reboot. Works perfectly now, though. Thanks for the quick help. Billy Thompson