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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I didn't know a2 only started at 64GB. There's no A2 32GB.
What I suggest is that if you do have a spare 64GB microSDXC card, try that in the mini and if it works, get a Sandisk A2 64GB card.
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I had two Sandisk A2 64GB microSD cards on hand. After using “dd” to clone the original 2GB card, I used Gparted to resize the partition (dd clones everything exactly—2 Linux and the FAT32 Kobo partitions, including their original partition sizes). I copied my Mini’s backup files onto the KOBOeReader partition, put it back into the SD card slot, then booted it up. Voilà!
It took a bit to boot, but it got there in the end, and I repaired my Kobo account to get rid of any corruptions.
It *is* faster than the 8GB Kingston microSD card that I had, but it’s not turbo charged. After all, it’s formatted FAT32, not exFAT, so it can’t take advantage of all the "new" speed enhancements. Still, though, it’s a nice hack for the Kobo Mini which originally shipped with just a 2GB drive. Things are snappy again AND I have plenty of room to grow.
Next I’ll stick more than 32GB of ebooks on it to see if things still work when storage exceeds the original 32GB microSD card limitation. It that works, I might consider a larger microSD card upgrade in the future.
Thank you, everyone, for your input.
Update: I’ve used up over half of the storage now, and the Mini is still zippy and responsive. At this point, I would recommend upgrading your internal microSD card to a Sandisk A2 64GB microSDXC card. If I see a good sale on 128GB or higher SDXC cards in the future, I may play around with them and report back here.