I formatted the microSDHC card with Amon-Ra recovery to
512mb ext3 / 64mb swap. I reapplied CWM recovery and rebooted normal.
Used rom manager to do a nandriod backup and it did see the sd-ext partition.
what do I do to tell Android to setup and use swap partition, and should it help?
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Hi,
I'm looking for a way to backup and wipe the ext-partition. I'm using ClockWordMod and partitioned my SD with ROM Manager.
ClockWorkMod can't mount my ext-Partition - so there is no way to wipe it or back it up.
With other Recoverymods Restore didn't work at all. So I'm perfectly happy with ClockWorkMod as it's reliable - the only problem is, that I can't do anything with the ext-Partition...
Any suggestions?
Linux can read ext partitions and backup/wipe no problem, but if your a Windows user then you will have to try a different recovery such as AM Desire Recovery, he says he has ext wipe working
Eggcake said:
Hi,
I'm looking for a way to backup and wipe the ext-partition. I'm using ClockWordMod and partitioned my SD with ROM Manager.
ClockWorkMod can't mount my ext-Partition - so there is no way to wipe it or back it up.
With other Recoverymods Restore didn't work at all. So I'm perfectly happy with ClockWorkMod as it's reliable - the only problem is, that I can't do anything with the ext-Partition...
Any suggestions?
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i had the same problem then i flashed the permanent recovery (www.unrevoked.com/recovery) and problem solved!
Seems like ClockWork doesn't work with ext2 for me. Tried various versions, couldn't mount any ext2 partition (and that's what you get, when you partition your SD with ROM Manager).
I reformatted the partition to ext3 with Linux (I know there are also other Recoverys, but I find them too unreliable) and now everything works fine.
Strange that ClockWork can only mount ext3 but no ext2...
Of course this solves my original problem as I can wipe and backup the ext-partition with ClockWork now.
I have the same problem with my ext2 partition here.
If I run ext2 -> ext3 in Recovery, is my ext partition wiped after that? Or is anything running unchanged afterwards?
uTauro said:
I have the same problem with my ext2 partition here.
If I run ext2 -> ext3 in Recovery, is my ext partition wiped after that? Or is anything running unchanged afterwards?
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I tried this, partition didn't get wiped and I was able to do a nandroid incl ext after that.
uTauro said:
I have the same problem with my ext2 partition here.
If I run ext2 -> ext3 in Recovery, is my ext partition wiped after that? Or is anything running unchanged afterwards?
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Shouldn't get wiped, no.
I have an 8GB SanDisk MicroSD, it had a 500MB SD-EXT partition made using ROM Manager with 0MB of Swap. I was using OpenDesire, the latest version.
However I decided to change to Cynanogen 6.1.1, as it is more stable. I decided to Un-Mount and Format my SD Card, as I know this wont format my SD-Ext. After Formatting my SD Card wouldn't re-mount so I connected it to my computer, and formatted it again, by right clicking and clicking Format in My Computer.
After doing this it said I had 7.86 GB of Memory on my SD-Card. This is how much is left on the SD Card with no Partition's or data. After I installed Cynanogen, when wiping the user data, I noticed that it said there was no SD-Ext partiton, and so it couldn't format it. I immidiatley went back to ROM Manager to create one, however when it gets to the Clockwork MOD Part I just get a error about a signature or something? Can anyone please help - thanks!
Perhaps the format option under settings wiped the whole SD card and repartitioned it with a single FAT partition, therefore deleting the EXT partition. Format from within windows/linux in future. AFAIK, there would not be an ext on a stock rom and therefore no need for one, so the format option just goes ahead an obliterates.
If you've got a nandroid you could just repartition and restore.
Sounds like it just formatted the whole thing into a single partition. Just partition it back again as your really suppose to do when switching roms.
I have 8GB MicroSD card, when I try to partition it using GParted, and I partition it with:
FAT32: 6.5GB
EXT4: 1.00GB
It shows an error next to the EXT partition, and it happens with all EXT (ext2,3 and 4).
I read somewhere to partition the EXT first and it worked, my questions are:
1. How to move my data back to the FAT partition if I use windows? (as windows recognize the first partition only, and since it is ext, it won't recognize anything)
2. If question 1 was solved, will it work to use the partitioning that way? As I read that FAT should be first.
Thank you.
What you could do is boot into recovery and use the SD partitioning in there. That's ifyou have CWM version 3. Rom Manager will also do it. You could use that as a starting point and then just upgrade it to ext4.
Just use Rom Manager to format. Easiest way imho
I have a 32GB card. Was using CM7 with scripts mounted for 280 MB internal memory. Wanted to change ROM so.
1. Reflashed CWM (didn't flash the boot.zip before reflashing CWM)
2. Wiped everything
3. Installed another ROM (3 ROM's actually )
Now I just can't locate the ext3 and swap partition on any software including Paragon or Gparted. It's like the partition just got lost. Any help will be appreciated.
Have you partitions with unallocated space or is the sd card so big like it be? For example, that the SD-Card has 32 GB in gparted or paragorn?
I upgraded from the latest ClockworkMod Touch to 4EXT Recovery, backed up my system and re-partitioned the SD Card with a sd-ext of 2GB, sd-ext2 of 768MB and a SWAP of 256MB
However when I boot into the phone and check free-m I only see the 96MB data swap in the buffer area, and not the 96 + 256 combined.
Any particular reason for this? I'm using the ROM in the signature.
N/M I fixed it by reformatting the card in recovery and skipping sd-ext2, I guess the rom doesn't support more than one sd-ext partitions as such affects it finding the swap partition automatically.