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Missing Space?? (partly link2sd related)

I don't understand this.
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(IMG tag doesn't seem to work so see this link instead) https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-...9bQ3HKvY/s800/possible%20Android%20bug-01.png
If you look at the image above, my sgy-data (fat32) partition totals 843.8MB but the system reports 928.4MB used. Where did the 84.6MB go? Now that's ignorable…
But for my sgy-ext (ext3) partition that is linkd with link2sd, the total size of all the files is 246.7MB but the system reports 686.6MB used. A total of 439.9MB is missing! And that is not ignorable anymore.
In fact, if you look at the second image, according to link2sd, my sgy-ext partition is using up 601MB (as compared to 686.6MB reported by Linux, a difference of 85.6MB still in the range of 'ignorable' missing space).
(IMG tag doesn't seem to work so see this link instead) https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-...Kh4pphYo/s800/possible%20Android%20bug-02.png
My questions are:
1) What's happening? and Why?
2) What's with Android OS as compared to Linux? Or putting it another way, why can't Linux see what Android 'supposedly' sees? Assuming that Android is seeing something that Linux can't, which could explain the missing MBs.
3) If it isn't normal at all, what is the best way to reclaim those missing MBs without resetting and starting from scratch? This is like the last resort if all else fails (although I don't mind since for some weird reason, everytime I plug-in my SGY to Linux, it reboots automatically).
Other info:
1) Using stock ROM
2) Using LA1
3) Samsung Galaxy Y
4) Rooted
5) I use Link2SD
6) regular SD card partition is FAT32
7) SD card partition for Link2SD is ext3
8) and a little bit of story, see next:
I rebooted after installing an app yesterday, and for some weird reason all of the installed apps that exists in Link2SD partition disappeared even though the said partition was mounted properly. I checked Link2SD and yes, it was mounted at boot, Link2SD can read the said partition. However, this is where it starts to get weird - Link2SD can not see any of the apps.
When I check the storage via Link2SD's, it reports that I have "used" space in the partition. True enough, the apps were not deleted, it was just that, Link2SD or maybe the phone itself failed to read those apps. Could this be a Link2SD bug and not Android related?
I tried rebooting, remounting, soft restart, all to no avail. I ended up reinstalling everything. Then trying the relink lib and relink cache. Some successfully relinked, the rest did not.
Then rebooted to see if anything changed. Works fine. However nothing changed. Finally I cleared the "trash", those files that lost its connection to its respective apps (via Link2SD's options). Nope nothing, because as Link2SD reported, these trash files have a total of 0kB! All empty files.
I rebooted once more. And then the problem repeated again. Then I rebooted again, and the problem stopped… finally.
However, the missing space are still there.
As you can see in my screenshots above, I have "all hidden files shown" enabled. The total size of all files is too low compared to the "used" size, which I can not reconcile anyway I looked at it.
And that's where I need help or an explanation… Android, Link2SD, possible bug?
Or is this another case of base-10 and base-2 space naming? My Linux OS uses base-10, is Android and Link2SD using base-2? (ie MB vs. MiB)
Thank you very much.

Same Problem have you found a solution?
I am having this same problem now... except I'm missing 1.90GB after a botched install and i know it's there on the sd cause link2sd is showing that it's being used even though I haven't linked anything to it yet after a fresh install of everything even wiping my sd and recreating the fat32 and the ext2 the missing GB are still gone.
Has anyone figured out what is happening or how we can get it back?

[MOD][HTC One SV] Swap your internal and external memory (sd card)

Here is something from our russian friends. With this mod you can swap your internal & external memory (= SD card) to get more space for example apps to install.
Pictures:
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Notice:
I tested this myself on a european non-lte phone (codename: k2_u) and it works. But as always bricks can happen and i am not responsible if your phone is dead afterwards.
Don't do this, if you are not experienced enough!
This files are for flashing in recovery.
Credits:
- radarga @ 4pda.ru for creating
- pictures from Rexxxster @ android-hilfe.de
How to install:
Make a Backup over recovery!
And make a backup of your data before you try.
Download the zip file wich is for your Android version, htc_one_sv_fstab_JB.zip for JB or htc_one_sv_fstab_ICS.zip for ICS from attachment and flash it in recovery.
If you wanna go back, flash the htc_one_sv_fstab_orig_JB.zip for JB or the htc_one_sv_fstab_orig_JB.zip for ICS in recovery.

We do not need to be S-OFF , do we??
Thanks

S-OFF is not needed. Maybe the russian kernel but you can try it first without.

is the data gonna be moved to the new location automagicly?

Mine was empty, so i can not say. I copied all to my PC to get sure to keep all data.
Make a backup before you try.

old.splatterhand said:
Mine was empty, so i can not say. I copied all to my PC to get sure to keep all data.
Make a backup before you try.
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I looked into the zip and it probably wont do that.
Code:
dev_mount sdcard2 /storage/sdcard0/ext_sd emmc /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.1/mmc_host
dev_mount sdcard /storage/sdcard0 auto /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.3/mmc_host
thats whats in there.
so probably the way to go, i think, is to copy all the stuff from /storage/sdcard0 to /storage/sdcard0/ext_sd before flashing.

Or copy to pc and back afterwards.

Hi.
I translated this tuto on a french forum, and someone tried it with ICS, it's possible that it doesn't work... Anyone still on ICS here who could try it ?
On JB, no problem though.

Matlevo12 said:
Hi.
I translated this tuto on a french forum, and someone tried it with ICS, it's possible that it doesn't work... Anyone still on ICS here who could try it ?
On JB, no problem though.
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He pm'ed me also, but as almost all people are on jb meanwhile, i don't think that there will be someone searching for a solution on ics.
And also as you know this mod is from another forum where it was downloaded. many times. I think, if it were faulty they had removed it.

swap
Hi, can it be done in stock recovery? i dont want to unlock or root it...

No.

Will this work on Boost mobile version running jb?
Sent from my C525c using Tapatalk 2

Mikessv said:
Will this work on Boost mobile version running jb?
Sent from my C525c using Tapatalk 2
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You can try. Stock files are the same.
Backup everything.
But i would change them manually, cause i don't know, if it flashes on the right partition for boost.
Edit:
Should also be flashable for you.

I'm a little scared I might brick my new jb install ..I should get the new working cwm installed first.
Sent from my C525c using Taptalk

Mikessv said:
I'm a little scared I might brick my new jb install ..I should get the new working cwm installed first.
Sent from my C525c using Taptalk
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If you don't wanna flash:
First backup your data. Then you can copy the modded vold.fstab to a folder above and set the correct permission like the stock file has. Now copy it, go into the etc folder, rename the old file to vold.fstab.bak and copy immediately the modded one into the etc folder.
Then reboot and see whats happened.

Memory
Is it possible to repartition internal and external memory? I mean join external memory with internal and make sdcard as external memory?

Yep, just read what's after "if you wanna go back" in the 1st post.

two-way recording
Hello! I come from Taiwan, want to ask you, there is two-way recording or not?

Sorry, could you be more explicit ?

Matlevo12 said:
Sorry, could you be more explicit ?
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He wants a feature that must be activated in kernel (short version).
So he needs someone who can build kernels....

[Q] ghost files??

So as I went to update Facebook this morning, my phone alerted me I had insufficient storage. Apparently 9 gigs of "other" files are taking up a bunch of space yet I cannot find them, even with showing hidden files. I don't wanna just go deleting files that I'm unsure of. Any ideas?
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m4gkman said:
So as I went to update Facebook this morning, my phone alerted me I had insufficient storage. Apparently 9 gigs of "other" files are taking up a bunch of space yet I cannot find them, even with showing hidden files. I don't wanna just go deleting files that I'm unsure of. Any ideas?
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What rom are you on? If you've just recently moved to TW 4.3 or AOSP 4.2/4.3/4.4 then all of your TW 4.1.2 data is in /data/media. Pics, music, videos, nandroid backups are the biggest folders usually.

SlimSnoopOS said:
What rom are you on? If you've just recently moved to TW 4.3 or AOSP 4.2/4.3/4.4 then all of your TW 4.1.2 data is in /data/media. Pics, music, videos, nandroid backups are the biggest folders usually.
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I'm currently using the newest beanstalk 4.4 rom. its not my photos or anything though. I've been using a file manager to look around and its considered "other" i think its stuff somewhere deeper then the emulated sd card :/

m4gkman said:
I'm currently using the newest beanstalk 4.4 rom. its not my photos or anything though. I've been using a file manager to look around and its considered "other" i think its stuff somewhere deeper then the emulated sd card :/
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Well, if its not either of those three big names from my last post then you should backup any important data then wipe internal storage.

Get SD Maid from the play store. I use it to find duplicates, ghost files, and other stuff worthy if deletion.
Sent from my Last Ever Samsung Device.

I had a very similar question lately:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2610663
I was missing >50% or my 32gb storage to unknown/other. I tried everything on the market, used computer to delete data, file analysis, nothing helped.
I am running CM10.2 and used the CM setting's app to perform a factory reset (the clockworkmod factory reset does not remove all user data). Apparently this formats your data area, and in my case eliminated the unknown wasted space.

[Q] Why Just 1Gb Of Data Partition?

Hi Guys! I know this is a question that many of you wondered, if in specs sensation is mentioned with four Gigabytes why we just got one?
I used Z test and search for memory on it, and look a this
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I wanna anybody explain me this. Seriously. What are those 2.25 Gigabytes doing there? Nothing, are not sytstem storage, are not cache partition, then, what that? I'd appreciate know it and another question, is there any tool or method to get this space into data partition?
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migui0401 said:
Hi Guys! I know this is a question that many of you wondered, if in specs sensation is mentioned with four Gigabytes why we just got one?
I used Z test and search for memory on it, and look a this
I wanna anybody explain me this. Seriously. What are those 2.25 Gigabytes doing there? Nothing, are not sytstem storage, are not cache partition, then, what that? I'd appreciate know it and another question, is there any tool or method to get this space into data partition?
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2.25GB is devided by data,system,cache some other minor partitions..That app just sums them up in a stupid way.
Just forget about it, you got what you got and there is no way for you to change it!

ivicask said:
2.25GB is devided by data,system,cache some other minor partitions..That app just sums them up in a stupid way.
Just forget about it, you got what you got and there is no way for you to change it!
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Is not just this app, i've seen it by other ways and that is not just data, sytem and cache partition. There are some others partition that app doesnt show apart of those 128 and 256 megabytes, if that MBs where doing something i would care about but are lost doing nothing.

migui0401 said:
Is not just this app, i've seen it by other ways and that is not just data, sytem and cache partition. There are some others partition that app doesnt show apart of those 128 and 256 megabytes, if that MBs where doing something i would care about but are lost doing nothing.
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if i remember well there is a fastboot command which shows you all partitions and their sizes
some partitions are completely empty

rzr86 said:
if i remember well there is a fastboot command which shows you all partitions and their sizes
some partitions are completely empty
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Yes, there are some partition lost that would give us some excellent extra space in our phone, the command is df and used in terminal in my phone and this is the result
This a big space lost, accepted or not. There is a proof.

migui0401 said:
Yes, there are some partition lost that would give us some excellent extra space in our phone, the command is df and used in terminal in my phone and this is the result
This a big space lost, accepted or not. There is a proof.
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AFAIK we can't repartition emmc as we want
i think it is impossible

migui0401 said:
Yes, there are some partition lost that would give us some excellent extra space in our phone, the command is df and used in terminal in my phone and this is the result
This a big space lost, accepted or not. There is a proof.
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There is NO space lost, those are "fake" partitions, just kernel mount points, try running same command when phone is not booted from recovery and it will show you real stats, also regardless of all of this we CANT re-partition Sensations nand even if we wanted...So discussion is pointless.

Fully Customization EBR Editor [Resize MediaTek Internal Storage from 1MB to 1TB]

Why share it :
I wrote this for my own MediaTek device because there were no EBR with 32GB internal storage nor there is any tool to achieve the goal.
How it works :
The program is simple as entering how much of space you need in your internal storage. The tool also let you know current size of your EBR partition size.
Why no full tutorial :
If you didn't know, there is also some tutorial on this forum to replace your EBR files. That's why I'm not discussing more off-topic.
Ok, I'm willing to use this tool :
Download and unzip the attachment and COPY your original EBR1/EBR2 files inside program folder and then start it.
Screenshot :
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I've had to edit EBR files on my old MTK phone, I just got another a couple of weeks ago. Old phone had phone 4GB phone memory, .99GB (internal storag) allocated for apps and the remaining was called phone storage. I was able to get 2.5GB to work on the 4GB phone. Funny thing, new phone is supposed to have 16GB phone memory, it also came with a very same space for apps, only .99 or .98 GB. I was able to experiment using your script, I was initially tried 12GB, everything seemed to sync up okay, but then after one day, services started to stop. I went back to 6GB and everything seems okay. One curious thing with my new phone, if I define 6GB or 12GB for the internal storage, the phone storage never changes. The phone is Cubot S308 with MTK6582 processor.

New revision EBR-Editor 1.0a
Small improvements
- Small comsetic changes
- Overwrite backup file by default
https://mega.co.nz/#!PAATzCwC!kBhIFpyTjwMlMecOYfVPsjghEGbVw0E_GRy3EYhsHts

bovirus said:
New revision EBR-Editor 1.0a
Small improvements
- Small comsetic changes
- Overwrite backup file by default
https://mega.co.nz/#!PAATzCwC!kBhIFpyTjwMlMecOYfVPsjghEGbVw0E_GRy3EYhsHts
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No more manual resizing!! Thanks bro :highfive:

Any way to resize the system partiton? Also your tool shows my current storage is 1gb, which is false, its actually 2gb. Whats up with that?

@-iHackerz-
Wht do you need to resize system partition?

Thank you very much
A million thanks for you...
I searched all over the internet for repartitioning my A210 and ended up in softbricking it...
I just thought I would end up being a noob....
With your EBR editor and a little knowledge about SP Flash Tools, I just achieved 7.37GB (created as 7.5GB using your editor and was 2.5GB before) of apps storage and 5.01GB of Internal Storage from my 16GB internal storage.
I already own a 32GB SD and so there is no space problem for me now.
I don't have any more words to thank you.
I really never thought that i could do this in a day.:angel:

bovirus said:
New revision EBR-Editor 1.0a
Small improvements
- Small comsetic changes
- Overwrite backup file by default
https://mega.co.nz/#!PAATzCwC!kBhIFpyTjwMlMecOYfVPsjghEGbVw0E_GRy3EYhsHts
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Link is dead. Can you reupload?

I suggest a (newer & more powerfull) alternative
EBR Changer by becar - http://www.needrom.com/download/ebr-changer/

-iHackerz- said:
Any way to resize the system partiton? Also your tool shows my current storage is 1gb, which is false, its actually 2gb. Whats up with that?
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To resize ur system partition u need flash any rom whith SpFlash Tool, modding the sccater.txt file
is the same for recovery, boot, cache, data partitions etc