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Using a Second SD Card

Important: Read this before you proceed!

If you want to use a second SD card, we strongly recommend to read the PortMaster and exFAT section before you proceed. This way, you can make an informed choice on formatting before you set up your second SD card.

Migrating to a dual SD card setup

This section is meant for users who are working on their inital KNULLI setup. If you already started setting up KNULLI on a single SD card and want to migrate to a dual SD card setup, you might want to take a look at our Dual SD Card Migration Guide instead.

If you use KNULLI on a device which has a second SD card slot, you may use the second slot for a secondary SD card, which can be used instead of the SHARE partition of the primary SD card.

Understand that it is not possible to use SD 1 and SD 2 as game storage at the same time. You can use either SD 1 or SD 2 - but not both at the same time! If you want to learn more about this, please have a look at the Game Storage section.

Using a dual SD card setup still has a lot of advantages:

  • In case of a breaking update, it is sometimes required to re-flash the entire CFW. With a dual SD card setup, you can simply re-flash SD 1 while your data storage will not be deleted because it is safely stored on SD 2.
  • If you have more than one device, it is possible to use the same data storage SD card on multiple devices.
  • Creating backups of your data might be easier since you can simply duplicate the entire SD 2, e.g. by drawing an image and flashing it onto another SD card.

Setting up a second SD Card

  • Shut down your KNULLI device (if it is currently turned on).
  • Insert the second SD card into the second SD card slot while the device is turned off.
  • Boot KNULLI, open the main menu by pressing the Start button and choose System settings.
  • Find the Storage section where you can choose your Storage device.
    • Switch fom Internal (the "internal" storage is the SHARE partition of your KNULLI SD card) to the name of your second SD card, e.g., SHARE - 25.6G.
  • Reboot KNULLI to apply the changes by pressing the Start button and choosing Restart system in the Quit section.
  • If your secondary SD card is not yet formatted to the file system of your choice
    • follow instructions in the Formatting section to format your SD card with the built-in KNULLI formatter.
    • make sure to reboot once more to apply the formatting.
  • During reboot, KNULLI will automatically populate the second SD card with all the required folders and files you would usually find in the userdata folder/SHARE partition.
  • If your second SD card is formatted to exFAT, you can now shut down your device and take the card out. You can put the card in your computer to access it and populate it with your data.