Missing SD Card Space

[abshole765]

Can anyone help me figure out why my computer is reading my SD card & saying it's a 2GB, even though the actual storage is 4GB? I've used this card in the past for xbian/rasbmc/rasbian, but I've never had this issue before.

No matter how many times I format it, erase it, delete partitions, etc., I always end up with a ~2GB partition. I've played around with it in Ubuntu & OSX.

 

[Mr. Retrofire]

Can anyone help me figure out why my computer is reading my SD card & saying it's a 2GB, even though the actual storage is 4GB?

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No matter how many times I format it, erase it, delete partitions, etc., I always end up with a ~2GB partition. I've played around with it in Ubuntu & OSX.

Check the partition/volume information (the file system format) in Apple Disk Utility. If Disk Utility shows a file system format which is not HFS+ (and variants thereof) or NTFS, then it is probably a limitation of the file system (for example FAT-16). See also:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/118335

You can format the SD card under OS X (HFS+, ...) or Windows (NTFS, FAT-32). This should solve your problem, if your problem is not hardware related.

 

[abshole765]

Formatting it to osx journaled still results in a 2gb partition.