OK there is one last thing and I'm done. How can I stop my phone from repartitioning istself after I partition the way I want it and when I put the SD back in my phone it repartitions it. When I take it back out and put it in my CPU it shows differently and its done the same way eveytime.I partition it at 5gig fat32 and 10gig ext3.when I put it in my phone it automaticly repartitions it to 10 gig fat32 and 3gig ext3 and adds linuxs swap to it.
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Try partitioning in recovery rather than pc.
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I did but its not enough space, only up to 4009 mb
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thre3aces said:
Hi all.
I have created an ext2 partition on my sdcard it is workinghone now shows 198mb of rom which is about 90mb higher than the phone's internal memory. BUT, my ext2 partition is nearly 300mb. I'm completely baffled by why this has happened since it happens on every rom I try: miui, ice and fire, cm7,froyomod...
I thought I would like to put this post here because I'm certain that other people may have similar issues.
Hope someone can help
Charlie
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P.S I tried all the different types of ext like ext2,3 and 4 but I get the same result no matter how big the partition is
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Phone is always showing how much internal memory it has. It will not show you space of your ext partition on sd card. Don't worry about it, it's normal.
You can check your free space of ext partition by typing in terminal 'df -h', line with '/sd-ext' will be your ext partition.
android roms will not show you your ext partition size.Custom roms might.To see your partition and the folders,i use root explorer.Great app
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I can see what you mean when u say that the phone doesn't always show all of the ext2 because in open recovery it shows how much ext2 is left but since the phone doesn't recognise the internal memory I can't install more apps. It just says not enuff internal memory.
Also on my friends htc desire he has a 1gb ext3 partition and on his phone it shows that he has 1gb internal memory.
On a slightly unrlated subject do u know of any build.prop fixes to show all market apps on the milestone (I'm using iceandfire 2.8 if that makess a difference)
Thanks for the help so far
Charlie
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Cache and Gmail takes up internal storage space
U might have moved all your apps to SD or Ext 2/3/4 but what about caches for your application....the cache is taking up your internal storage space.
Also what about Gmail? I supposed Gmail is also using the internal storage space to store your emails.
Actually I just realised something. On my 1st post I had 30mb free. Now I have 80mb internal storage and I haven't done anything either my phone is automatically moving app to SD or they are being transferred to my ext2 partition
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thre3aces said:
Actually I just realised something. On my 1st post I had 30mb free. Now I have 80mb internal storage and I haven't done anything either my phone is automatically moving app to SD or they are being transferred to my ext2 partition
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Looking back on myself... I looked like such a spak then :L
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is there a version of cwm recovery that will remove the ext partition and the swap partition if the card is formatted with those partitions?
Just power down the phone. Pull the SD card, backup to your PC. Then reformat and reinstall. Power up and you should be good to go.
It doesn't get rid of the ext or swap partitions. I think I just have to put it back in my old hero and use ra recovery to set those to 0 MB
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alright... ended up having to put the card in the computer and using disk management to delete the partitions then reformatting
res06q2b said:
alright... ended up having to put the card in the computer and using disk management to delete the partitions then reformatting
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I thought that's what I said .
I may have misunderstood... Thank you
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No problem . Here to help. I should've been clearer.
What is partition sd card for and how to use it I have a 16gb card and I try this in voodoo and it drop it to 10gb if its not need it how do I put it back to 16gb
Glorious+Overdose+V2+-+PDTsk4g
I take it that no one knows about this
Glorious+Overdose+V2+-+PDTsk4g
to hold roms or other mis items i believe
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some people put swap partitions on their sd cards to add to the physical memory, works ok at best and you have to have a script to enable it. Others put an ext4 partition to install programs to. Once again works ok, but Android has native installation to sd cards so it isn't as helpful as out once was.
Imho you are better off having one big fat 32 partition and not messing with all the rest.
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Think you a lot so how do I put it back to 16gb its at 10 now
Glorious+Overdose+V2+-+PDTsk4g
wipe the sd card i think
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wiping the card doesn't change the partitions.
partitioning the sd card just splits it up into separate filesystems. you choose the type of filesystem (fat, ntfs, ext, reiser, etc) you want for each partition.
the ROM does not go anywhere on the sd card.
like wolfepakt said, you can put linux swap space onto a partition on the sd card, but for the sk4g i don't feel it's necessary. i think it was common to have on the g1, though.
i'm not completely clear why people use ext partitions on their sd cards. with ext3 and ext4, there's journaling, so i think there's added robustness against file corruption or whatever. i'm not clear on speed of ext vs fat, though. i think ext4 is faster than ext3, so the question would be fat32 vs ext4.
you can partition your card via cwm, but for some reason you can't choose 0 for your ext size, which is annoying. maybe that's only with the red cwm, though, which is what i have. the other thing you could do is use a card reader and plug it into your computer, which i assume runs windows, and then partition it via the disk manager: http://www.d-silence.com/feature.php?id=246
It's used to put apps on when using a low memory device also. IE: The G1, Mytouch 32b
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It's used to put apps on when using a low memory device also. IE: The G1, Mytouch 32b
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How can I put it back to 16gb its at 10 now
Glorious+Overdose+V2+-+PDTsk4g
Look two posts up.
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What's the best and most effective way to wipe and format a micro SD card, to be used with an Android phone??
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Best way is to let the phone itself format it. It will be in the right format.
Dixit
To build on the post above, this is done in settings and storage.
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Thank you... so doing on a PC is q waste of time and effort??
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It can be. If it formats it as they wrong partition type then they phone won't see them card and will ask to reformat it. Might as well let the phone put it in the right format to begin with. Then copy all your music, pictures, videos over.
Dixit
Hello all, i want to partition my 8gb sd card (class 4) but dunno how to do it perfectly coz diz my 1st time. Actually browsing XDA , i gone through tassadar's multirom. This is d need for partition !!
wat is the idle size of partition for 8gb ?? & wat is the process ??
Edit: m using clockwork recovery 5.0.2.7 touch.
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I was going to cr8 thread of same doubt.
I also waana partition my sd card. 8Gb class 4..1.5 gb space left.
And i also need pros and cons of partition.
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Me too I had looooooooooooots of doubts but after I partitioned it today regretted every moment without ext!!!!!!
So I partitioned it through CWM 256 ext and 32 swap and when using link2sd it's exactly like apps are in /data(widgets...)
I don't know about risks coz I didn't face any
PM me for any question I'm ready to help!
I too have a doubt when I partitioning my SD card all my data in it will gonna erase
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Yes, partitioning your SD card will format it and erase everything on it, so back it up first.
The point of an ext partition is to extend the internal memory, so you can load it up with apps and not run out of internal storage. This comes in handy on the ov which has very little internal memory to begin with. With an ext partition, you can use apps like link2sd to create symbolic links to your apps, so they can be on the sd card, but the "think" they are on the internal. This way you can move apps that can't be normally moved to the sd, or use widgets, which need to be on the internal memory. I, however like cronmod's ext scripts. They can be put in the init.d of some roms, and they will move your data partition, and/or dalvik, and/or data/apps to the ext. That way you don't have to manage apps like with link2sd. In a sense, it's like adding straight to the internal memory.
To partition your sd card, the easiest thing is to do it from a custom recovery. You won't get to choose the filesystem, but you can choose the size of the ext partition and swap. Keep swap at zero, as most phones here won't use it. Set your ext partition to ~10% of the size of the sd card.
If you want a different filesystem than your recovery gives you, you can use the minitool partition wizard on your pc with a card reader:
http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
Is swap partition really helpful for low ram devices and O1??
Do we need to use any script to use of swap memory or is it done automatically??!
Edit: Good info about swap partition.
hope this can help you!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2059900
rr0yy said:
Is swap partition really helpful for low ram devices and O1??
Do we need to use any script to use of swap memory or is it done automatically??!
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Actually swap is not needed for o1.Even on ics i have about 150-200 mb of free ram most of the time,and if u make swap partition u'll get even more free ram.But remember unused ram or free ram is nothing but waste of ram in linux,unlike windows.
Can make partion without formating sd card?
I don't have pc and can't even go to cyber or friends home till April
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virusshah1997 said:
Can make partion without formating sd card?
I don't have pc and can't even go to cyber or friends home till April
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Have 10th board exams?
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Finally my sd card partition with 512mb ext & 0mb swap formatted. Used cwm 5.0.2.7 touch recovery.(very easy) :beer:
Now m using GB as well as ICS via multiRom at 1 fone lg P500 (dual boot)
ITZ AWESOME !!
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akiratoriyama said:
Have 10th board exams?
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Yeah
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virusshah1997 said:
Yeah
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Me too
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Finally got it ,was trying for such a long time but wasn't able to..