confusion... android partioning and sd card.

[Guest swys]

Ok so I have a standard 2gb MSD card in my zte blade I have booted into clockwork recovery and made a 1gb partition with 0 swap size which leaves me with an unused 1gb of space. I mount the sd card with usb and it appears in windows explorer size 1gb, but where is the other 1gb ok so I thought I will make another partition so I go to manage disk management and I can see the other 1gb unallocated space but can do nothing with it? so my question is what is this 1gb unused space for? and why can't I have that as an extra drive? Why don't I just create a full 2gb partition and have full 2gb? why should I partition in first place?

am confused lol

Edited April 19, 2012 by swys

[Guest ColdEmbrace]

I'll start with answering your last question first. If you don't know why you should partition then you probably shouldn't do it at all.

[Guest swys]

I'll start with answering your last question first. If you don't know why you should partition then you probably shouldn't do it at all.

I understand about microsoft windows partitioning I just don't understand how the android storage works?

[Guest swys]

Am I right in thinking the other storage space that isn't accessible is Linux and used for the android to install apps etc... on?

[Guest swys]

Ok I read about it and not really something that is worth while I won't be wanting to install tons and tons of apps etc... plus i don't have an ext sd card reader so aho!