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sorry if im being ignorant with this post guys!
im looking for a tutorial on how to partition my sd card for my magic. i know how to do a basic partition but not ext2/3 etc etc.
i noticed alot of roms lately require this to work properly. also for compcache and apps2sd and stuff.
if anybody could help id appreciate it. thanks
download paragon partition manager 9.
its smooth sailing from there
another question - do i format the sd before or after the rom flash? i format the sd through my rav recovery then windows does not recognise it????
thanks for the help
anybody? no? come on!
if you have Amon_Ra's recovery image on your phone, you can do the partitioning with one click, and it will do fat32+ext2+swap for you.
Start asking your questions in the right sub-forum (Q&A) (Theme) or even in (General), or i will be forced to ban you for 3 days or till you learn.
Thanks
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Dev question since u 2 built the rom and kernel.
Curious as to changeng the fstab and recovery.fstab for the sd cart from vfat to ext 4 and formating the card as ext 4 and remounting. Is there support in the file system for this? Just curious as to trying to find ways to get ext 4 sd card support on boot for the instant mount's and no more scanning sd cards
and this seems to be the most logical way to add sd card ext4 support without the need of programs are makeing 2 partitions.
like adding and or changeing to
/dev/sdb1 /media/sd ext4 users,iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 0
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/dev/sdb1 /media/sd ext4 auto,exec,rw,async,user 0 0
for mount speed increase for asynchronous writing
RaverX3X said:
Dev question since u 2 built the rom and kernel.
Curious as to changeng the fstab and recovery.fstab for the sd cart from vfat to ext 4 and formating the card as ext 4 and remounting. Is there support in the file system for this? Just curious as to trying to find ways to get ext 4 sd card support on boot for the instant mount's and no more scanning sd cards
and this seems to be the most logical way to add sd card ext4 support without the need of programs are makeing 2 partitions.
like adding and or changeing to
/dev/sdb1 /media/sd ext4 rw,user,auto 0 0
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PM not good enough?
Dr. Hook? edit is in order. lol
fknfocused said:
PM not good enough?
Dr. Hook? edit is in order. lol
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ya i made a few entry errors lol.
and i guesss i wanted to get there input cause if they say it should be possable i would just i guess use this thread once i edited the entries and posted them for people with errors with it.
i guess i could have pmed them shesh sorry.....
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and i guesss i wanted to get there input cause if they say it should be possable i would just i guess use this thread once i edited the entries and posted them for people with errors with it.
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didnt mean to sound like a d***, if thats what your intentions are disregard my post.
fknfocused said:
didnt mean to sound like a d***, if thats what your intentions are disregard my post.
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That would be the idea IF this is actually possable without risking killing the card and or phone or both. It opens up alot of possablies hummm swap files ram disks bla bla bla.. Or just really fast file system without the damm limitations of fat 32
I just dont have access to my linux box for a bit so i cant test this at home Or I would do it myself and post results.
It will break your usb mount if you convert sdcard to ext4
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drhonk said:
It will break your usb mount if you convert sdcard to ext4
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Thanks but if i personally dont care about hooking the device to a pc at all im more curious of the phone ramificatons.
unless im totally mistakeing what you are saying
RaverX3X said:
Thanks but if i personally dont care about hooking the device to a pc at all im more curious of the phone ramificatons.
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We dev have to consider the general users not one.
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drhonk said:
We dev have to consider the general users not one.
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true my bad sorry if i came off wrong. Well off to test then ty ill post results. Humm but wouldnt the phone still be readable under linux via usb and windows with the program to read ext 4?
damm cant test no linux box grrrrrrrrrrrr..... cry... well ty for the info im going to dive deeper into this and post results here when i can but ty so much with your reply it helps...
It gives me some ideas n hope i can do it without breaking usb support. or at least re adding it back
I have spare 8gb card ...ill try and let you know what's up...
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This has been untested, and I'm not to sure of the results. You would have to edit the vold.fstab, and the recovery.fstab
ty for the info soon as i get a linux box running on this laptop will test it. thanks for your reply.
How do i find out if i have ext 3 or 4, and where do i find ext 4 to flash if i need?
thanks
An easy way to tell would be to install 4EXT Recovery to replace CWM Recovery. It will show you exactly what your partitions are in recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1161710
If you want to change your partitions to Ext4 then you can go to the first page of the Android Revolution HD thread in development and download and run Mike1986's superwipe script, which is on the first page. Flash superwipe in recovery. It will format your partitions as Ext4. Make a back up of your phone data because it will delete all of your data. It will not delete anything on your external sd card. Also make sure you have a rom on your sd card to flash after using a wipe script.
Wolf_2 said:
An easy way to tell would be to install 4EXT Recovery to replace CWM Recovery. It will show you exactly what your partitions are in recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1161710
If you want to change your partitions to Ext4 then you can go to the first page of the Android Revolution HD thread in development and download and run Mike1986's superwipe script, which is on the first page. Flash superwipe in recovery. It will format your partitions as Ext4. Make a back up of your phone data because it will delete all of your data. It will not delete anything on your external sd card. Also make sure you have a rom on your sd card to flash after using a wipe script.
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What wolf said lol. :-D.
Enjoy the ext4 recovery. Its a great piece of work. If you want to theme it check out the links in the op of that thread wolf directed you to. Many themers including myself are listed on there. Link in my sig as well.
I got your 10 char right here
Besides really liking the way 4EXT Recovery works, I really enjoy changing and using themes by Cwhitney24 and other themers. It is great to be able to theme recovery.
Wolf_2 said:
Besides really liking the way 4EXT Recovery works, I really enjoy changing and using themes by Cwhitney24 and other themers. It is great to be able to theme recovery.
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Well thanks! :-D
I got your 10 char right here
After reading the last 4 posts I feel the need to put my high boots on and install the newer recovery.
Agoattamer said:
After reading the last 4 posts I feel the need to put my high boots on and install the newer recovery.
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....yes do it!!!! Lol
I got your 10 char right here
It's all good now!
brettd750 said:
It's all good now!
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Good! :-D
I got your 10 char right here
brettd750 said:
I need 10 post to be able to post in the dev threads. Have some small potential faults with a custom rom.
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try the Q&A stickies
Pirateghost said:
try the Q&A stickies
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Someone finally found it and asked the question. Fixed and there is no flaw
The on screen personalize but was linked to fire up internet explorer. there was a tweak in setting to turn it off
**shudders at 'internet explorer'**
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**shudders at 'internet explorer'**
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+10 chars! Love it!
Are there any advantages of being ext4 over ext3? Im on the absolution rom so im not sure what ext it is. Sorry for thread jacking btw.
EXT is the Linux native filesystem. EXT was quickly replaced by EXT2 which was a good rock-solid FS for Linux and survived for a decade. It was eventually supplemented with a journal and became EXT3 even though the underlying filesystem was still EXT2. EXT4 is a journaling FS, but was redesigned from the ground up. It is designed to take advantage of very high-speed drives like 15K SCSI raid-arrays in high-end server farms, or for dealing with huge file sizes efficiently, neither of which is an advantage at all on an embedded device like a smart phone.
Most Androids used yaffs2 since it was fast and efficient on an embedded device with a serial MMC type storage system, but with the advent of multi-core smartphones, yaffs2 didn't handle multi-threaded access to the filesystem.
So, in short, EXT4 is really not an appropriate filesystem for an embedded device. Any journalling filesystem is going to be hard on the MMC as it causes much more read/write cycles and will eventually result in faster failure of the MMC. EXT3 is the choice of HTC on its newer eMMC devices and probably is the best fit for multi-core systems, but Google has hired the inventor of EXT4 so that's probably the direction Android will take regardless of EXT4's inappropriateness.
For more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4
I read that post without looking at the author and was thinking "this guy seems almost as smart as Gene".
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sorry for noob post but i havnt been able to understand all this with all the posts iv read
Iv been looking into installing apps on the external sd card and i came across "partitioning sd card" and a whole bunch of other vocabulary, so iv got a couple of questions.
1. can someone explain to me the basics of this?
2. define ext2, ext3, ext4, fat32, swap size, (there might be a bit more i jsut cant think of any right now)
3. do u reccomend doing this with cwm? iv come across a few posts where people have been saying thing could brick your phone
4. apperntly cwm has some built in partition? i dont really know..
5. how would I do this this with cwm?
Boot into recovery and look for partition sd option, follow instructions.
NVIDIA NEVER AGAIN!
fcisco13 said:
Boot into recovery and look for partition sd option, follow instructions.
NVIDIA NEVER AGAIN!
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thanks but is it safe? and what do i put for each option?
Make sure you backup your sdcard before you partition or you'll lose your important files.
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maxesxp said:
thanks but is it safe? and what do i put for each option?
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Is it safe?
Don't know i have 20 apps installed so dont need more space, it was safe on n1.
NVIDIA NEVER AGAIN!
d12unk13astard said:
Make sure you backup your sdcard before you partition or you'll lose your important files.
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yes iv already done that I just wanna know what the procedure is
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maxesxp said:
sorry for noob post but i havnt been able to understand all this with all the posts iv read
Iv been looking into installing apps on the external sd card and i came across "partitioning sd card" and a whole bunch of other vocabulary, so iv got a couple of questions.
1. can someone explain to me the basics of this?
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Try this link. Very simple.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=SD_card_partitioning
jcbofkc said:
Try this link. Very simple.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=SD_card_partitioning
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thank you but iv come across ext4? whats that? and what is swap? theres some vocabulary words in there i dont sorry for all the questions lol
maxesxp said:
thank you but iv come across ext4? whats that? and what is swap? theres some vocabulary words in there i dont sorry for all the questions lol
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EXT4 is the file system (like FAT or NTFS but for Linux based). Swap is the partition used sort of like ram (just slower) in the way that temporary files are stored there for quick access.
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redmonke255 said:
EXT4 is the file system (like FAT or NTFS but for Linux based). Swap is the partition used sort of like ram (just slower) in the way that temporary files are stored there for quick access.
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Okay thanks can you give me a procedure to how to partition you sd card? Thanks in advance
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I think people mentioned to do it through clockword mod? I think I've seen an option down there.
I have no idea why you'd want to, though. I can't really see any benefit and it would only complicate things.
Only reason to partition sdcard to have an ext partition is for people like me that have way too many apps to install that normally wouldn't fit on the g2x's internal storage. Even putting apps to SD wouldn't allow my setup of over 600 apps to my phone without an app called link2sd, currently rocking a 12gb ext3 partition on my 32gb class 10 Lexar sdcard. Call me crazy but I love having all my apps available any time I need, my phone is a beast I tell ya, with all the stress I put in it its still blazingly quick!
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redmonke255 said:
I think people mentioned to do it through clockword mod? I think I've seen an option down there.
I have no idea why you'd want to, though. I can't really see any benefit and it would only complicate things.
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yupp thats what i wanted to do lol but it says swag size and stuff and i got confused... and ppl hav said clockworkmod is ddangourous when it comes to partitioning soo im a bit scared
d12unk13astard said:
Only reason to partition sdcard to have an ext partition is for people like me that have way too many apps to install that normally wouldn't fit on the g2x's internal storage. Even putting apps to SD wouldn't allow my setup of over 600 apps to my phone without an app called link2sd, currently rocking a 12gb ext3 partition on my 32gb class 10 Lexar sdcard. Call me crazy but I love having all my apps available any time I need, my phone is a beast I tell ya, with all the stress I put in it its still blazingly quick!
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yupp lol iv filled my sd card up so thats how i stumbles across this
I bought a new Kingston 32gb class10 microsdcard, because i decided to test Data2sd on my tf700.
I installed data2sd zip from recovery and when I booted up it said "Encryption unsuccessful", and I can only reset tablet.
I cant make a factory reset as it just reboots and displays "Encryption unsuccessful" again. I can go into recovery TWRP but all my files on my internal storage is gone, so I cant flash CROMI again.
So I copied the CROMI rom on my 32GB fat32 formatted card, but in TWRP console it says E: Unable to mount '/external_sdcard'
I should have never done this
Can anyone help please?
Apparently you didn't partition or format your card correctly - did you use gparted?
This indeed sounds like yo uare one of the many many, many that still used MiniTool, our warnings notwithstanding. Try Gparted.
Furthermore, if you can access any other storage partition in TWRP and would like to copy your backup(s) so you can reinstall you can do so with the AROMAFile Manager found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646108
Boot into recovery, flash the AFM zip file and it will start the file manager. It's a convenient option to have, but it does take a little getting used to.
I used minitool. Any gparted alternative on windows machines? I have ubuntu on my virtual machine but it cant see the internal card reader :/
TWRP couldnt recognize my Kingston 32gb, thats why it was unable to mount it. I used a old 512mb sd card and I have managed to install CROMI again. Awesome!
One thing I find confusing reading the Data2SD thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1962507)
I am confused as to whether I need 2 partitions or 1. I always transfer files between my tablet and computer via USB cable. So should I make one 32gb ext4 partition? Or make a small 8mb fat32 partition and the second as my ext4 partition?
Allright got my questions answered else where.
I am using the Gparted CD to boot up from and format my SD card.
To anyone else do not use MiniTool as it doesnt work!
Thanks guys.
r4yburn said:
Allright got my questions answered else where.
I am using the Gparted CD to boot up from and format my SD card.
To anyone else do not use MiniTool as it doesnt work!
Thanks guys.
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If I'd come ina bit sooner, I'd had advised youthe route you haven taken so props for your self-sufficiency. :victory:
I have already taken up the issue with MiniTool still being recommended with a senior moderator.
MartyHulskemper said:
If I'd come ina bit sooner, I'd had advised youthe route you haven taken so props for your self-sufficiency. :victory:
I have already taken up the issue with MiniTool still being recommended with a senior moderator.
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Yeah saw your post on Data2sd thread. The post Muffin has made should be edited, as ppl tend to read the first 3 posts from the op and not the replies... Oh well no harm other than many posts from users. For a second I thought I turned my tablet to a brick..
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Yeah saw your post on Data2sd thread. The post Muffin has made should be edited, as ppl tend to read the first 3 posts from the op and not the replies... Oh well no harm other than many posts from users. For a second I thought I turned my tablet to a brick..
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Yeah, the latter effect is what I'm trying to stop: I was in the same situation, with the added bonus of nobody having figured out how to recover. It took me an entire evening and a lot of stress to get back my microSD card after it stopped working altogether. Once a thread gets more than, say, 300 posts you can't really blame a new reader for not going through all of them -- the OP should be updated, however, when an issue is as clearly established as this one is.