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How do I tell if I partitioned my SD card right?

I prepared my 8gb SD card (that came with the Desire) to receive LeeDroid's well-loved Froyo ROM, using ROM Manager. I specified 512mb for the EXT and 0mb for the swap. Windows shows 6.92GB free. I understand it can't see the Linux part, but the Quick Info app and HTC sees 6.92gb. Shouldn't they see about 7.5gb? Where did the 512mb go? How can I even check if RM put a 512mb EXT3 partition on the card (oh... I don't do Linux!).
Should I go ahead with the A2SD LeeDroid install or worry some more?
(Btw... my username is for sale. But if anyone wants it to name a ROM they created... I give it for you gratuit ).

Cyanoid said:
I prepared my 8gb SD card (that came with the Desire) to receive LeeDroid's well-loved Froyo ROM, using ROM Manager. I specified 512mb for the EXT and 0mb for the swap. Windows shows 6.92GB free. I understand it can't see the Linux part, but the Quick Info app and HTC sees 6.92gb. Shouldn't they see about 7.5gb? Where did the 512mb go? How can I even check if RM put a 512mb EXT3 partition on the card (oh... I don't do Linux!).
Should I go ahead with the A2SD LeeDroid install or worry some more?
(Btw... my username is for sale. But if anyone wants it to name a ROM they created... I give it for you gratuit ).
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An 8GB SD card only really has 7.456GB of usable space
Quick System Info, the phone and Windows all see the FAT partition of the card, so when they report 6.92GB it's accurate
That 512mb missing shows that the ext3 partition was successfully made, it should be reported as 512MB free in the A2SD storage bit in quick system info

viva.fidel said:
An 8GB SD card only really has 7.456GB of usable space
Quick System Info, the phone and Windows all see the FAT partition of the card, so when they report 6.92GB it's accurate
That 512mb missing shows that the ext3 partition was successfully made, it should be reported as 512MB free in the A2SD storage bit in quick system info
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Thanks. In A2SD storage in QI it says "Information not available". But could that be because I have not yet installed the LeeDroid ROM, and am still on the original Android 2.1 the phone came with?

Cyanoid said:
Thanks. In A2SD storage in QI it says "Information not available". But could that be because I have not yet installed the LeeDroid ROM, and am still on the original Android 2.1 the phone came with?
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Most likely yes, a custom ROM that supports A2SD+ creates symlinks between the internal storage and the sdcard, as these obviously aren't there in the stock Eclair rom then there is no link to the ext3 partition and free space isn't being calculated.

viva.fidel said:
An 8GB SD card only really has 7.456GB of usable space
Quick System Info, the phone and Windows all see the FAT partition of the card, so when they report 6.92GB it's accurate
That 512mb missing shows that the ext3 partition was successfully made, it should be reported as 512MB free in the A2SD storage bit in quick system info
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After partitioned my SD card, Quick system info shows me that A2SD storage only have 113MB. I checked with Windows 7 disk manager and see that there is a 488MB linux partition. So where is the rest space? Could any one help me out?

You want something that can read sd-ext like root explorer and that will tell you. A2SD is weird and it depends on how the scripts and stuff are done and installed. Sometimes you can look in storage settings and it will tell you there, sometimes you use an app like Quick System Info, and sometimes it is just useless and won't tell you. If you have an SD card partitioned with a primary FAT32 partition first, then a primary ext3/4 partition second, it will work.

[Q] SD Card Partition help, expand internal memory,A2SD+ ,GParted , ?,

Hey Guys , I need some help with SD card partition.
I'm using HTC desire 16 GB SD card , my device is rooted and I have been all over this tutorial :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016084
which means that I have S-Off Precedure With Alpharev too.
I have partition my Sd Card With Gparted.
I have logged to unix , created a 3 partitions ,first one is the fat32 12 gb , second ext3 2GB, and about 200MB of swap partition....
In addition I have installed new room, the : [ROM] LeeDrOiD 2.4.1 A2SD
The thing is , that after partitions my sd card I have expected to have about 2 GB of available internal memory (setting -> sd & phone storage -> Available space )
I have expected to observe about the size of my ext3 partition size in the available space . - in the internal phone storage.
It's seems to be the the phone is unable to recognize the ext3 partition, and locate in as an internal memory.
What shall I do in order to expand my (virtual) internal memory ?
( I have look over most tutorial in the forum )
(I went through the partitions tutorial , specially this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V64S6cEkGw&feature=player_embedded
but it's seems to have no effect over the memory )
BTW, I have tried GParted , and rom manager as well , both gave me the same results.
Cheers
Shahar
I'd like to know how to create

That is not how a2sd+ works, your internal memory won't increase. It just goes down slower. Use titanium backup to see if your ext is recognised.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA Premium App

Tea because ext isn't internal storage. Its on your SD card so its classed as external storage, thus the size wont change. There are a couple, if that, just 1 rom that actually changes it but other than that, it doesnt change.
You also don't need swap. Especially the 200mb of swap will greatly slow down your phone as TheGhost said. Remove it and have about 1GB or ext and you will be fine. When you flash a rom, install a few apps and see of they're installing to ext.
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Thanks
TheGhost1233 said:
That is not how a2sd+ works, your internal memory won't increase. It just goes down slower. Use titanium backup to see if your ext is recognised.
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Hey TheGhost1233
And thanks for your help
I was watching a friend of mine from school , the guy using the same phone (HTC Desire) , and he were able to change his internal memory to 1.33 Gb !!! (I was so impressed) ,
Do you know how has he done that ?
I remember the mentioned running a script from xda .... (I was searching the forum all over)
Is there any way to change my internal memory storage to 1.333 GB, as a virtual memory over my SD card storage.
Cheers
Shahar

Maybe your friend uses a rom with data2sd script from sibere (Starburst ROM uses it see here)

Meaple said:
Tea because ext isn't internal storage. Its on your SD card so its classed as external storage, thus the size wont change. There are a couple, if that, just 1 rom that actually changes it but other than that, it doesnt change.
You also don't need swap. Especially the 200mb of swap will greatly slow down your phone as TheGhost said. Remove it and have about 1GB or ext and you will be fine. When you flash a rom, install a few apps and see of they're installing to ext.
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Thanks for your help
Are you sure about the swap partitions ? I'm familiar with the unix platform, and a swap partition is very essential.
do you know which rom changes the internal memory ?
And I have spotted my partition using titanium backup ....
What kind of things I can do with that partition ?
Thanks
Shahar

CyanogenMod website has a good explaination for this topic:
As I'm not yet allowed to post outside links go to cyanogenmod website -> community -> wiki -> Swap and Compcache
Hope you will find it...

Hey guys
I have finally made it !!!
Manage to have 2 GB at my internal memory
Using the Gparted partition and the http://starburstrom.wordpress.com/ roms
Thanks for the help !!
~ Closed .....

shaharsar said:
Hey guys
I have finally made it !!!
Manage to have 2 GB at my internal memory
Using the Gparted partition and the http://starburstrom.wordpress.com/ roms
Thanks for the help !!
~ Closed .....
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I want to ask if the starburstrom has built-in Data2SD or I have to run the script seperately ???

It's not built in. But on Starburst website (mentioned above) you get all you need to activate it. It's easy. Just follow the instructions on the site.

vi.p said:
It's not built in. But on Starburst website (mentioned above) you get all you need to activate it. It's easy. Just follow the instructions on the site.
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Do I need to s-off my desire firstly for using Data2SD ?

Not at all!

I found that the Data2Sd installer has different series: X, W and Tiny series.
Which one should I need to use?....thx

[Q] partitioning sd card

hey everyone
i have rooted my phone and installed cyanongen mod7, the fact is that i followed the noobprrof tutorial, and as he stated i partitioned my sd card, i left 1 gb ( its a 4gb memory now its divided to 3 and 1 ), but i didnt know where did it go and why i did partition my sd card, i thought it would add up to internal memory but it didnt...
please can anyone tell me whats the purpose of paritioning it ?? and how can i let apps get installed on this paritioned part if its purpose is so...
i have also realised in the video that as he entered to phone storage, theres a part at the end name personal data that is not appearing in my phone... does this have to do anything with wut im asking ??
thanks in advance

making sd-ext is for ROMs which uses A2SD and it installs apps directly to that sd-ext. it's on sd card don't worry and those partitions are not visible in windows, only in linux.

thank u ferencz1
ok so most of the time when i move apps to sdcard the 3gb partition's free space decreases and not the 1gb partition...
1gb partition is the ext4
3gb is the fat32
isnt it supposed that the 1gb partition that decreases in free space ??

Titanium backup shows you a split - system rom, internal, sd card, sd ext ....
Look at that to see if your ext is working properly - yes is should decrease!
No need to 'move' apps to sd - its auto
Does your rom suport ext 4?? if not start again with ext 3!

BigMrB said:
Titanium backup shows you a split - system rom, internal, sd card, sd ext ....
Look at that to see if your ext is working properly - yes is should decrease!
No need to 'move' apps to sd - its auto
Does your rom suport ext 4?? if not start again with ext 3!
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CM7 does support ext4 right, don't know i use IC, but what you said about titanium backup is wrong, sometimes it doesn't say how much ext. there's. Quick System Info does although

TopGear63z said:
CM7 does support ext4 right, don't know i use IC, but what you said about titanium backup is wrong, sometimes it doesn't say how much ext. there's. Quick System Info does although
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I use both... but titanium everyone has and to be fair always shows it for me

[Q] help cm7 sd ext partion

I would like to increase internal memory to 1gb .......I would like to use simple2ex or data2sd...I need full detail about SD partion..I have already flashed cm7..please help

not possible
kp.nikhil said:
I would like to increase internal memory to 1gb .......I would like to use simple2ex or data2sd...I need full detail about SD partion..I have already flashed cm7..please help
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You'd have to have a [custom] hboot that had partition info set up like you wanted [to change system partition information]. Not an easy task. Doubtful it would ever come to fruition. Besides our devices have 512 MB ROM, 512 MB RAM (418 MB user-available). So allocating that all to system would be unwise. Now SD card partitioning... our device supports up to 32 gigs Those two you mentioned or Darktremor's Apps2sd are great tools for moving your apps or even dalvic vm to your sd card. You can partition your sd as you wish with the unofficial cwm recovery (under advanced options). I will try to port another recovery [4ext] in the future which is great for sd partitioning (data aligns everything; supports ext4). CWM is not too shabby though; give it a whirl. Hope that helps.
Rob

I've tried to make sd-ext with Rom Manager -> Make partitions on SD. I've shoose 512Mb (of 16Gb miscroSD) and 32Mb swap file. But still have 178Mb internal memmory.
What is wrong?

I used Minitool Partition Wizard (free) to split my SD 16Gb on Fat32 & ext4 512Mb. Works Fine! Link2SD identify external partirion.

cool
congrats. Just a suggestion... change your OP from [Q] to [Answered] even though you answered your own question. May help someone else.
Rob

data2sd not installing for me after i install i get a boot loop..

you need Apps2sd or Data2sd not both
The rom has Apps2sd... You want Data2sd. You will have to remove apps2sd support, then add data2sd support. Can't have both.
Rob

[Q] Expand internal memory?

I just want to know wich is the best to do it. I though I had a ext partition aligned with the SD card to use it as internal memory... but know Im getting I have no space left. So I suppose I did something wrong.
Any help is appreciaded.
Thanks in advance !

Do you use any sd-ext scripts? I suggest you Mount2sd.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342387

Partiton
juanmanuelsanchez said:
I just want to know wich is the best to do it. I though I had a ext partition aligned with the SD card to use it as internal memory... but know Im getting I have no space left. So I suppose I did something wrong.
Any help is appreciaded.
Thanks in advance !
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hi dear
u have to explain how u made EXT partition , i think u went wrong way
tell me about Ur SD size ,and how many kb aligned for that

juanmanuelsanchez said:
I just want to know wich is the best to do it. I though I had a ext partition aligned with the SD card to use it as internal memory... but know Im getting I have no space left. So I suppose I did something wrong.
Any help is appreciaded.
Thanks in advance !
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You might also want to include details like which Rom,etc.

Im using Cool Droid V3 with a 8 GB SD Card
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1279016
I will reformat my SD Card and try everything again. If i do it right, should the internal memory change in size?
And wich should be the partition sizes?
Thanks in advance !

that depends on the hboot u are using. about ext4 partition, most roms require ext4 1gb - 1.5gb max
Sent from my HTC Desire