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[Q] Problems creating Ext partition

Hi all,
I have a big problem with my desire well my class 6 32gb kingston card I should say.
I don't seem to be able to create an ext partition, I tried rom manager, but it doesn't work because it doesn't create it. It actually creates a partition which can't be recognized by my pc, rom, clockword or amon recovery, neither clockword recovery no amon's recovery seem to be able to create a working one at the moment.
Then, I tried to do it via adb and parted but it says parted not found, I pushed parted to sbin via adb and i tried to do it there, it works fine for creating fat32 partitions but when it comes to ext3 it goes until the end and then says some bug has been found in parted.
Then, I used gparted, I created a fat32 partition and then a ext3 partition, it shows clearly that the partitions are there but neither my leodroid rom nor either of the recoveries can see it, when I try to wipe it, it says unable to format (file exists).
Then, I used minitools partition wizard but with no avail, neither the rom nor the recovery can read the ext partition.
Any help is appriciated.

shav4life said:
Hi all,
I have a big problem with my desire well my class 6 32gb kingston card I should say.
I don't seem to be able to create an ext partition, I tried rom manager, but it doesn't work because it doesn't create it. It actually creates a partition which can't be recognized by my pc, rom, clockword or amon recovery, neither clockword recovery no amon's recovery seem to be able to create a working one at the moment.
Then, I tried to do it via adb and parted but it says parted not found, I pushed parted to sbin via adb and i tried to do it there, it works fine for creating fat32 partitions but when it comes to ext3 it goes until the end and then says some bug has been found in parted.
Then, I used gparted, I created a fat32 partition and then a ext3 partition, it shows clearly that the partitions are there but neither my leodroid rom nor either of the recoveries can see it, when I try to wipe it, it says unable to format (file exists).
Then, I used minitools partition wizard but with no avail, neither the rom nor the recovery can read the ext partition.
Any help is appriciated.
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are you creating an ext 4 partition with gparted? i had the same problem with clockworkmod, the file exists error, so i tried with the unbuntu live cd (ext 4) and got the same error, i deleted the partition and this time created an ext 3 instead and all worked fine, maybe theres a problem with clockwork and ext 4 partitions

believe me i have tried 4, 3 and 2 and none of them seem to be readable. It's driving my crazy. Any idea why parted is not on my rom? or is it just my particular device having this issue?
Thanks,

I am having a similar problem, would appreciate if someone can help
in my case I tried to partition the stock 4 GB SD card that comes with the Desire into 480 MB EXT2 partition and the rest into FAT32, for this i tried:
- ROM Manager but if failed to create the partition after going to recovery
- used EASUS partition manager from my Windows Vista laptop, and it seemed that the partition were correctly created
Then I proceeded to try to flash a couple of ROMS that are using A2SD (Leedroid 2.2e and 2.2f , Modaco R9) and in each time I got stuck in splash screen. I tried for many times then I decided to try with a ROM not using A2SD (pre-rooted stock HTC Froyo) and my Desire came back to life again.
The problem is that after that point my SD card was not recognisable at all by the phone although I could use it on the Windows laptop
I wonder if someone can explain in details the best way to format a SD card to be able to work with A2SD or A2SD+, preferrably from the phone itself (clockwork recovery) or from Windows PC application
Thanks
Gam

gamgoum said:
I am having a similar problem, would appreciate if someone can help
in my case I tried to partition the stock 4 GB SD card that comes with the Desire into 480 MB EXT2 partition and the rest into FAT32, for this i tried:
- ROM Manager but if failed to create the partition after going to recovery
- used EASUS partition manager from my Windows Vista laptop, and it seemed that the partition were correctly created
Then I proceeded to try to flash a couple of ROMS that are using A2SD (Leedroid 2.2e and 2.2f , Modaco R9) and in each time I got stuck in splash screen. I tried for many times then I decided to try with a ROM not using A2SD (pre-rooted stock HTC Froyo) and my Desire came back to life again.
The problem is that after that point my SD card was not recognisable at all by the phone although I could use it on the Windows laptop
I wonder if someone can explain in details the best way to format a SD card to be able to work with A2SD or A2SD+, preferrably from the phone itself (clockwork recovery) or from Windows PC application
Thanks
Gam
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I have the same problem, can any one help??? I gave lots of money to buy that sd card but I cant use it the way I want :S

Take a Usb-stick.
! YOUR DATA FROM YOUR STICK WILL BE LOST, BACKUP BEFOR GPARTED INSTALL!
! BACKUP YOUR DATA FROM YOUR DESIRE SD-CARD, ALL DATA WIL BE LOST USING THIS METHOD!
Download gparted, install it using unetbootin.
start gparted form your usb-stick.
Remove all partitions in GParted from your desire sd-card.
create a new partition form about 1Gb ext-4.
then create a new partition (fat-32) that fils the rest of your sd-card.
Note: the ext-4 partition needs to be in front of the fat-32 partition.
restore your desire sd-card data.
I hope this helps!

Keon91 said:
Take a Usb-stick.
! YOUR DATA FROM YOUR STICK WILL BE LOST, BACKUP BEFOR GPARTED INSTALL!
! BACKUP YOUR DATA FROM YOUR DESIRE SD-CARD, ALL DATA WIL BE LOST USING THIS METHOD!
Download gparted, install it using unetbootin.
start gparted form your usb-stick.
Remove all partitions in GParted from your desire sd-card.
create a new partition form about 1Gb ext-4.
then create a new partition (fat-32) that fils the rest of your sd-card.
Note: the ext-4 partition needs to be in front of the fat-32 partition.
restore your desire sd-card data.
I hope this helps!
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Thank you Keon91. Gonna try this cos been having mega probs.

duryard said:
Thank you Keon91. Gonna try this cos been having mega probs.
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Have you got it working?

Yes Thanks. All sorted now

[Q] Help! partitioning ext3 / installing amonra

Hi all!
As a last resort i'll be asking my question here.
I'm currently running the stock 2.2 rom with root access and clockworkmod recovery. I've had this setup for a long time now. Today i got my 8gb class6 card and i thought i'd change to a Desire HD rom for a change.
So far (5 hours into the process), i've only managed to what seemed the easyest: ..partition my sd card!
I currently have the following:
7gb fat32
1gb ext2
32mb swap
I have tried everything i could find but i simply cannot get this thing to upgrade to ext3 and then ext4. I do not have a card reader at hand so i'll have to do it within the phone.
The problems i'm facing after struggling for 2 hours to get parted working:
- no upgrade_fs script.
- tune2fs giving a unknown command error
I've been playing arround with this for about an hour when i switched to trying to install AmonRA recovery as i read this could upgrade your ext partition aswell. Problems i faced when trying to flash this were:
- unrevoked: internal error, unable to unlock nand.
- flash recovery app: error running command.
- flash_image commands: whole bunch of write errors and in the end a no space left error.
- rom manager: alternate recovery's greyed out, even after countless reinstalls and 'flash clockworkmod first' -tricks.
- fastboot: remote: vertification error.
- terminal app: flash_image not found.
And probably a bunch more i forgot..
I'm thinking of simply installing a RUU and do the whole rooting process again, and then installing amonra. For now i've recovered a clockworkmod backup i made and put back my old sdcard.
I hope there's someone that can help me!
Kind regards,
Jeroen

Use something like gparted or Easus or what ever it's called to partition the SD card.

GoogleJelly said:
Use something like gparted or Easus or what ever it's called to partition the SD card.
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Done this, but gparted only allows creation of ext2. The problem im having is upgrading it to ext3!

GParted allows to create all kind of EXT partition (including EXT3). Use the latest LIVE CD or USB version. I upgraded my EXT3 to 4 via GParted.
Sent from my customized HTC Desire using TTP

Oh i did not know that, i thought it only allowed up to ext2.
But dont you need a cardreader for that? Because i dont have one at hand right now

No, don't need a card reader. Best way is to boot into recovery and mount the SD Card. You can try via the Disk Drive option, but it gave me wrong readings (since the EXT partition was in use by the system), so not recommended.
Sent from my customized HTC Desire using TTP

Thank you!!!
I feel so stupid for struggling for hours yesterday. Only took me 5 minutes with GParted USB. Running the HD rom now!

I partitioned my SD with Amon Ra then selected ext2 to ext3, but it failed. When I moved the log to the SD card and read it on my PC it said there was no ext. I redid the partition, again with Amon Ra, then selected ext2 to ext3 and it worked. Just figured I'd let people know the ole try again method could work if you get here.

LostNomad311 said:
I partitioned my SD with Amon Ra then selected ext2 to ext3, but it failed. When I moved the log to the SD card and read it on my PC it said there was no ext. I redid the partition, again with Amon Ra, then selected ext2 to ext3 and it worked. Just figured I'd let people know the ole try again method could work if you get here.
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In a couple of weeks, you will be posting about ext not working properly.
Only partition your sd-card with 4ext recovery or Gparted.

[SOLVED!] Cannot flash ROM using CWM on new MiniSD!

Hello all,
Okay, am definitely a noob, although have been able to root and make some major changes to my Desire with the help of this great forum since the last one year. Tried to look this up in the noob post and others, tried a lot of things folks suggested in other posts but not working.
Ran into a major problem this week when I tried to move to Leedroid's Gingerbread ROM using a brand new minisd I bought (Sandisk 8GB). Was running Leedroid's v2.5.0 earlier. Here are the steps I followed for the new card>
1. Backedup my stock MiniSD data (and formatted it)
2. Downloaded Easeus and partitioned my new MiniSD (using card reader) with first 7gigs of FAT32 and secondly with 500 MB of EXT3. (Cant seem to find an option for the swap)
3. Copied ROM and Radio into the new MiniSD
4. Booted into recovery through CWM v2.5.0.1 - wiped clean, tried to flash the ROM. Success message. Radio flash - Success message.
5. Reboot phone - stuck at HTC logo whitescreen!
Went into partitions menu on recovery and checked the mount, and I see this error:
E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 (File exists)
Error mounting /sd-ext/!
I know this error can occur for a lot of reasons, but what I am more worried about is - did I just brick my desire? Am I just using an outdated CWM version? How do I upgrade now?
Thank you for any help..really appreciated.

SOLVED!
Upgraded CWM Recovery. Instead of EXT3, I re-formatted into EXT2, reloaded the ROM and Radio. Flashed!
Reboot successful.

well since it works already try with EXT3 or EXT4
they are faster than EXT2, you will see the diffrence

[Q] My SD partition is not picked up by A2SD+

Hey,
Recently I've partitioned an 8GB SD-card through RA Recovery v2.0.1 to have a 1024MB EXT4 partition without swap (later I tried EXT2, EXT3 and an aligned EXT4 as well).
After installing a ROM said to be compatible with A2SD, the latest Supernova 2.4.0.1, it did not show the additional storage room that should be available from the SD partition.
Also when using a terminal emulator app, after granting it Superuser permission, I could not get any evidence on my phone being able to see the SD partition. "a2sd" and "app2sd" commands are not recognized and the "busybox df -h" and some other command did not return any evidence on an SD partition being present.
Other ROMs I've tried installing were the latest Cool3D RunnyMede and the Runnymede&Bliss.Mix ROMs. Both froze at their boot screens (due to not being able to access SD partition?).
Some (additional) information on my HTC Desire:
- GSM
- Stock HBOOT
- Stock radio
- RA Recovery v2.0.1
So yeah, I was wondering if you guys could help me on getting my SD partition to function Thanks in advance!

I've got the _exact_ same problem. I hope someone at XDA can help, because I'm eager to try Chrome Beta on my Desire with ICS.
Sent from my G100W using XDA

Try redo it with gparted or flash 4ext recovery if s-off
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio using XDA Premium App

Thanks for the reply!
But sadly I won't be able to confirm whether that would've fixed my problem. I switched to MildWild's CM 3.8 ROM and that alone had my SD partition working for me.
Although it initially didn't appear to have the extra storage room (it displayed around 120MB in the Applications and Storage menus), I soon noticed that after installing a new app, that amount would first drop but then rise back to ~120MB again.
Typing the "busybox df -h" command in the Terminal Emulator confirmed that there was indeed a 1GB partition present from something called "sd-ext"...which would be the partition I made!
But could it be that I have to install A2SD+ separately for certain ROMs and is included in others?

Some like CM need this setup - mostly run AOSP roms myself but boot loops point to issue with the SD-ext partition. As was said earlier Gparted is the way to go to partition, and will align perfectly as well - if it were me I'd nandroid including sd-ext if separate in AmonRa (I use 4EXT Touch Recovery myself), copy sd contents to PC as back up, and re-do partitioning in Gparted.

/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 - sde-ext error!

Hi, I've got a problem on my HTC Desire.
When i try to clean delvik or wipe sd-ext, i have an error like this:
Code:
E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
(File exists)
Error mounting /sd-ext/!
I've tried to format SD card (made ext3 as primary), but no dice - still can;t mount sd-ext.
It is possible now to install ROM (LeeDroid), but ut freezes on bootscreen.
HELP!

What did u use to partition ur sdcard?
Sent from my non-Jelly & Icecream HTC Desire

Why is the ext primary the fat partition needs to be the first partition on sd card.

Same Problem With Me!
i have the same problem. partitioned my SD card for ext4 512MB n rest FAT32. i used Gparted Linux OS for this as described in Android Development Post: [Video Tutorial] Noob Proof Everything Desire Guide UPDATED [04/04/11][Video Tut]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016084
followed each n every step. using ICS 4.0.4 by Sandvold.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1355660
when i try to use ext4 it says:
E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
(File exists)
Error mounting /sd-ext/!
plzzzzzzzz help! using HTC Desire!

Like colin says Fat32 first then ext partition second. Try using 4ext recovery to partition sdcard, it does the job perfect
Sent from my non - JB HTC Desire

jmcclue said:
What did u use to partition ur sdcard?
Sent from my non-Jelly & Icecream HTC Desire
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Mini tool partition wizard HE.
I've found the info, that both partitions have to be set as "primary".
I had FAT 32 as primary, and ext3 as logical, but it didn't work either.
I will try to set ext4 instead of ext3, maybe that would work. I'll let you know in the evening CET.

thats ur problem, minitool, it creates bad partitions and dont align them properly. use 4ext recovery, works perfect.
Sent from my HTC Desire

4ext recovery failed to solve the problem!
jmcclue said:
thats ur problem, minitool, it creates bad partitions and dont align them properly. use 4ext recovery, works perfect.
Sent from my HTC Desire
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i used 4ext recovery.... but still same problem!
can u suggest something different or step by step?
i used both ext4 n ext3.... but didnt helped!

What he means is, use the recovery named 4EXTRecovery. Search for the recovery image here in xda or google it, then flash it via fastboot OR download the 4EXTRecovery Updater from here if your current rom is rooted. (you can also use the updater to just download the recovery image in case your current rom ist not rooted). Then boot into recovery and partition your sd, first partition fat32, second 4ext.
BTW primary in this context doesn't mean first partition, but means that the partition type is primary (as opposed to logical).