I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge in which I put a 400GB SanDisk micro-SD card to expand its storage space. Seems that didn't work though. The space is not available to me. And I can't really figure out why or how I can make this space available.
When I inserted the SD card, I selected that this SD card needs to be adopted as internal storage (I don't intend to take it out any time soon). And I had Android reformat it as it likes. However the storage app seems to be confused or the partitions messed up.
Bottom line, I'm not able to take more photos or transfer more music onto the phone because it's running out of storage.
Here's what the "Storage Settings" settings menu says about my disk usage:
- 367GB total used of 728GB
- Internal shared storage: 366GB used of 367GB
- Apps: 845MB
- Images: 483MB
- Videos: 0
- Audio: 19.50GB
- System: 342GB
- Other: 3.17GB
- Cached data: 112MB
- SanDisk SD Card: 0.96GB used of 361GB
- Apps: 2.71GB
- Cached data: 40.42MB
Bold is my highlight. I don't understand why System is using 342GB or why it's counting the SD card double (the phone itself comes with 32GB built-in storage). Why is it not letting me store these files on the SD card?
I have Termux installed and here's the output of the df command:
Filesystem
1K-blocks
Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs
1680128
4560
1675568
1% /
tmpfs
1816220
448
1815772
1% /dev
tmpfs
1816220
0
1816220
0% /mnt
/dev/block/dm-0 378585556 1006608 377562564
1% /mnt/expand/612126b2-7bab-4bf8-8a24-ebacec5b0c23
/dev/block/sda14
4233152 1095448
3121320 26% /system
/dev/block/sda15
197472
188
193188
1% /cache
/dev/block/sda18 25772320 25243840
512096 99% /data
/data/media
25772320 25243840
512096 99% /storage/emulated
So I understand that this /storage/emulated is the one that's full, but somehow in this /dev/block/dm-0 there is this 377.6GB of space being unused. How can I make that space available to me? I've got ADB installed on my computer if necessary. It seems that the only thing saved on the SD card is several apps.