Hello
I seem to be having a little trouble in understanding how to manually partition my SD card for Android Apps2SD. I have a rooted HTC Desire and I am keen to try out Cyanogenmod, I have installed a ext partition through ROM Manager, but I would like a ext2 as well.
Please can someone explain which recovery image I should use to partition my SD Card with some instruction.
Thanks very much
You can use 'busybox mkfs.ext2' to format and 'busybox fdisk' to create partitions.
Instructions:
http://linux.die.net/man/8/fdisk
http://linux.die.net/man/8/mkfs.ext2
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I need to partition my SD card and keep one of the partitions as ext3.
I resized the SD card, but i don't know how to change the unallocated space to ext3. I'm using MiniTool Partition Wizard.
Someone please help.
It might be just easier to redo from start using this guide: http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-hero-hero-modaco-com/293461/how-to-partition-sdcard/
Cant we just use CWM??
edit: nevermind I decided to test that and ended up deleting my whole SD card. F*ck me -______-
Hey guys I'm using an HTC Desire stock rooted 2.2 and I really need to create an SD partition to transfer all my apps to the SD card... I'm on a Macbook. I first used ROM manager to partition my SD but it didn't quite work
Please guide me
Hello,
I have secondary partition on my SD card with ext4 filesystem on it.
With help of Link2SD i can use this partition for installed apps.
So the question is, when i create a backup with 4EXT (currently installed) or CWM does it include links and actual files from the SD card?
Got also a ext and ext1 seems to be a strange mounting problem..
It works but s2e cannot find the ext patition..
orld said:
Hello,
I have secondary partition on my SD card with ext4 filesystem on it.
With help of Link2SD i can use this partition for installed apps.
So the question is, when i create a backup with 4EXT (currently installed) or CWM does it include links and actual files from the SD card?
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Hi,
4EXT nandroid backup takes a complete snapshot of your phone system,settings,data,and apps.
It does NOT make a backup of your sd card.
So, I would think that if you restored the backup,and you had not moved the apps in your ext4 partition,then they would match up again.
Why are you using an ext4 partition,anyway?
Isn't 1 GB of space on the phone enough for you?
software logic
well,
in linux filesystem, and in windows nowdays too, any storage can be mounted anywere, so if backup software differentiate external storage vs internal storage, it probably should follow symlinks and backup application from extended filesystem as well.
it could be a feature request
Hi all,
I have several questions concerning SD-EXT partition.
Is SD-EXT partition still useful in ICS?
I partitionned my SD card with 4EXT (recovery): one partition of 4GB in EXT3 format, and remaining space as FAT32. I tried several browser apps (ES Explorer, Astro and Root Explorer) but none of them shows "/SD-Ext" root directory, is there something to do to show it?
When I choose to move an application to SD Card, it seems that my application is moved to my FAT32 partition in "\.android_secure" directory with a "*.ASEC" file extension, so it seems that my SD-EXT partition is not used! How to move application to SD-EXT partition?
(optional) Is SD-EXT partition still available to OS when SD Card is mounted in USB with the computer (maybe a stupid question) ?
(optional) In 4EXT, what is the effect of mounting or unmounting "/cache", "/sdcard", "/sd-ext", etc. ?
Thank you in advance for your answers.
Kino101 said:
Hi all,
I have several questions concerning SD-EXT partition.
Is SD-EXT partition still useful in ICS?
I partitionned my SD card with 4EXT (recovery): one partition of 4GB in EXT3 format, and remaining space as FAT32. I tried several browser apps (ES Explorer, Astro and Root Explorer) but none of them shows "/SD-Ext" root directory, is there something to do to show it?
When I choose to move an application to SD Card, it seems that my application is moved to my FAT32 partition in "\.android_secure" directory with a "*.ASEC" file extension, so it seems that my SD-EXT partition is not used! How to move application to SD-EXT partition?
(optional) Is SD-EXT partition still available to OS when SD Card is mounted in USB with the computer (maybe a stupid question) ?
(optional) In 4EXT, what is the effect of mounting or unmounting "/cache", "/sdcard", "/sd-ext", etc. ?
Thank you in advance for your answers.
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Hi,
Sensation has 1 GB of internal space.
There is no longer any need for ext 3 or 4 partitions on the sd card.
Format the card to FAT 32,and enjoy ALL of the space for music,films,pictures,backups,etc.
c'est bien ça.
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I don't understand why do you need ext partition for sensation. It has enough memory for most of the app you needed. All games u can install to sd card. No need for ext at all. I tried to use ext before had lots of problems so would recommend just don't use.
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Thanks all, it seems that you all agree to say that SD-EXT is useless with "Sensation", so I'll probably give up with this feature...
As I like to understand things in general, it would be great if an expert could explain why I don't see my SD-EXT partition (created with 4EXT) with any of the most known browser, and how to move Apps to SD-EXT instead of "\.android_secure" of my FAT32 partition...
I am NOT an expert ,hope you don't mind , but this is how I install apps to my sd card. I believe you have the ability to control there destination with this app. there are SEVERAL applications in the play store for rooted devices to move applications to sd card. I prefer one called links to SD because it does batch installations or un installations if need be to the SD card. It's very easy to use. I love it when changing over to a new SD card . I can simply batch install ALL the applications I want to my SD card in one step. Hope this helps. Best wishes .
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realsis said:
I am NOT an expert ,hope you don't mind , but this is how I install apps to my sd card. I believe you have the ability to control there destination with this app. there are SEVERAL applications in the play store for rooted devices to move applications to sd card. I prefer one called links to SD because it does batch installations or un installations if need be to the SD card. It's very easy to use. I love it when changing over to a new SD card . I can simply batch install ALL the applications I want to my SD card in one step. Hope this helps. Best wishes .
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using xda premium
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Thanks for your reply but just for your information, I also tried some apps from the Play Store (APP2SD, APP 2 SD), but they all do the same action as the built-in function "move to SD" that can be found in "Settings=>Applications" that's to say move the app to "\.android_secure" and not to my SD-EXT partition.
Best wishes.
I am trying to put NexusHD2-JellyBean-4.1.2-CM10 V1.1 on my HTC HD2 via Native SD. I can't figure out what exactly to do once I get to the partitioning of my sd card. This thread [26 SEP 2012][DEV]NativeSD Rom Boot Script for HD2 said what to put the 4ext size at but not the swap or any of that. I am new to doing this and I would greatly appreciate any help. What do I do?
There are so many instructions. Please copy/paste the instructions you're following, so we can better help you
You probably don't need swap.
post-mortem said:
There are so many instructions. Please copy/paste the instructions you're following, so we can better help you
You probably don't need swap.
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Sdcard for NativeSD:
Code:
1. First make sure you have at least 1 Fat32 partition and 1 EXT4 partition on your sdcard
2. If you don't have these partitions ?? backup your sdcard , because everything will be wiped from your sdcard when you create partitions and format them !
3a Use the provided 4EXT recovery (NAND or SD version) to create the partitions and format them.
3b If you rather use a computer for creating and formatting partitions keep in mind that both partitions must be primary partitions (not logical)
4. The recommended size of your EXT4 partition is depending on how many roms and apps you are going to install.. 512M is the minimal size..
5. Restore/move the sdcard contents back to the Fat32 partition
6. (WP7 users) make sure the EXT4 partition is located @ /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
To check this mount your sd-ext partition in 4EXT recovery and use adb shell or QtADB shell and type df
7. Your sdcard is now ready for NativeSD usage..
What steps have you completed, and what part is troubling you? Have you partitioned your SD card?
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What steps have you completed, and what part is troubling you? Have you partitioned your SD card?
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Once it gets to 4 where it says the minimal size is 512 mb. On the recovery on my phone, it asks me for primary ext, secondary ext, and then swap. What do I do here?
Choose primary, ext3 or ext4. You don't need swap.
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Choose primary, ext3 or ext4. You don't need swap.
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Okay, so then I should put maybe 1024 mb, instead of 512, since it's a 16 gb memory card?
Go for it.
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Go for it.
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Alright, hopefully everything goes swimmingly. Will post if I have any other problems.