[Q] Data2SD with ext4 more than 2GB? - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all,
I have this experience. Yesterday I flashed StarBurst followed by Data2SD to my Desire. Before that, I partitioned my 8 GB microSD to 3 GB FAT32 and 5 GB ext4. After flashed Data2SD and rebooted, everything worked properly.
Then I had a second thought, and re-partitioned my microSD to 5 GB FAT32 and 3 GB ext4, followed by flashing StarBurst and Data2SD. But afterwards I had these problem:
- Can't read/write SMS. Error message: "Unable to manage your messages
because your storage is full".
- Can't install any app from Market. The system says that there's not enough
space.
I checked the internal memory, and it's around 3 GB (as I partitioned it).
So I googled around, and found out that the maximum size for the ext4 partition is 2 GB. Then I re-partitioned my microSD accordingly, and now it works.
What confuses me is, why did it work with 3 GB FAT32 and 5 GB ext4?
Any comment from the experts here? I post this in the Q&A since I can't post in the Development forum.
Thanks!

Seems after 2gb can be unstable plus with data2sd it is best with class 6+ sd card

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SD card usage?

Noobish question, I'm afraid:
I'm running Modaco's 3.2 rom with A2SD+ with an 8gb memory card. Previously, I had used a regular A2SD 3.2 rom.
I formatted my sd card to have 32 mb swap, and 512 mb for ext2 (which I immediately upgraded to ext3). How big should the dev cache be?
When I check the size of my card under settings, it shows 7 gb now.
I would understand 7.5, but 7 doesn't seem to make sense.
Did I miss a step in card formatting/reformatting, or is this normal?
TIA.
shotten99 said:
Noobish question, I'm afraid:
I'm running Modaco's 3.2 rom with A2SD+ with an 8gb memory card. Previously, I had used a regular A2SD 3.2 rom.
I formatted my sd card to have 32 mb swap, and 512 mb for ext2 (which I immediately upgraded to ext3). How big should the dev cache be?
When I check the size of my card under settings, it shows 7 gb now.
I would understand 7.5, but 7 doesn't seem to make sense.
Did I miss a step in card formatting/reformatting, or is this normal?
TIA.
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if you have a 8 gig sd card, i doubt you had much more than 7.5 gig of space to start with, just cuz its an 8 gig card you only get about 7.6 gig of space on it you know
shotten99 said:
Noobish question, I'm afraid:
I'm running Modaco's 3.2 rom with A2SD+ with an 8gb memory card. Previously, I had used a regular A2SD 3.2 rom.
I formatted my sd card to have 32 mb swap, and 512 mb for ext2 (which I immediately upgraded to ext3). How big should the dev cache be?
When I check the size of my card under settings, it shows 7 gb now.
I would understand 7.5, but 7 doesn't seem to make sense.
Did I miss a step in card formatting/reformatting, or is this normal?
TIA.
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Just to add, i would suggest that you do not use a swap and set it to 0 Mb. Your phone has 578 MB of RAM - a portion of this is used for running android OS and after the substraction for radio, GPU use, it still should be around 400MB. Using a swap size of 32 Mb would just slow down your phone.
This might be of no relevance, esp. considering how SD cards often have slightly less than stated capacity, but just to note that using Linux deleting files off the SD card while connected via usb does -not- delete them, rather it appears that the file is deleted but space had not been freed up. You need to empty your waste basket/recycle bin to actually delete the file.
I've gotten used to this on ubuntu derived distros but may be true of linux in general perhaps.
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[Q] Desire only recognize limited memory

Ok so this is my problem:
I have a 16 Gig MicroSD class 6 card.
I've partitioned it with ROM manager and then manualy changed the partitions sizes, I've increased the ext3 and the swap partitions sizes with gparted.
Later on I've inserted the card back to my Device and Flashed a fresh copy of the ROM.
The device still can only see 147 Mb or free space whereas I've partitioned it to be about 1 Gig of size.
Any one knows any way to make more space on the card then ~150Mb?
Do a search on data2ext and data2sd.
Good luck.
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ilAlejandro said:
Ok so this is my problem:
I have a 16 Gig MicroSD class 6 card.
I've partitioned it with ROM manager and then manualy changed the partitions sizes, I've increased the ext3 and the swap partitions sizes with gparted.
Later on I've inserted the card back to my Device and Flashed a fresh copy of the ROM.
The device still can only see 147 Mb or free space whereas I've partitioned it to be about 1 Gig of size.
Any one knows any way to make more space on the card then ~150Mb?
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I take it your using a normal app2sd rom, not the newer data2sd or data2ext.
where are you looking to find your stats? if its in settings/sd & phone storage these wont show the amount of the app2sd partition, but they will show the amount of a data2sd or data2ext partition, because the latter two fools the phone in to thinking its internal storage, the former just moves parts of an app to the ext partition on the sd card so isnt classed as internal storage.
If you download an app from the market called quick system info it will show you the size of your app2sd partition to see if its worked

SDCard 16GB - Gparted / Phone show 12GB

So.. i was installing RCMixHD Rom yesterday, i partitioned my card as follows (using Gparted in Ubuntu):
FAT32 14GB
EXT2 2GB
This Rom is awfully bad, it crashed few times and freezed that i couldnt even reboot so i had to remove battery when it was still running.
I decided going back to CM7 but i just realised that SD Card size is 12.84GB, and Gparted doesnt show any partitions on it, what the heck?
Use a card reader or connect the sd while in recovery and make sure all the partitions get mounted.
If android is booted the ext partition doesn't get mounted. Also if you created your ext partition while android was booted that probably messed up the ext partition and that's why the rom doesn't work right.
First of all a 16 GB cars is more likely 15 Gb in real life.
Moreover, the phone does not recognizes the ext partiton in the SD card menu (in settings), just the FAT32 one.
So 15GB-2GB-possibly some unpartitioned for data = 12.84 GB
That's OK.
Thanks, i think it's fixed now i got 14.8GB of space available again.
Is that a class 10 card? i am trying to figure out which card should i get for my desire, after bad experience with kingston 16gb class 10.
Its Class 4 Sandisk SD card.
if you want to partition the card try ext 3 for a2sd+
Minitool Partition manager is the way to go to create ext partitions on a sd card
free too..

[Q] Error Partitioning

Hi guys,
I have partitioned my SD card about 10 times now, either using ROM Manager or Gparted.
The problem is that after I do everything no extra memory appear on the internal memory.
It is a 8GB class 6 card.
Why is this happening?
Download quick system info to see the info about this partition.
It is showing as the partition exists.
Is it working?
Im using RCmix by the way. Maybe a bad SD card?
Just tried with the original SandDisk 4GB Class 2 and it did the same.
Any help please?
L.Bento said:
I have partitioned my SD card about 10 times now, either using ROM Manager or Gparted.
The problem is that after I do everything no extra memory appear on the internal memory.
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after you partitioned your card with gparted, what did you do, exactly? just turn the phone on? reinstall? what? what ROM are you using?
Do you have a2sd+ with your rom?
sounds like maybe you dont.
Did u create an ext3-Partion for App2SD? Correct partitioning should be like this:
0 MB SWAP (MUST!!)
512 MB - 1,5 GB for ext3-Partion (more than 1,5 GB can cause problems with downloading/installing apps)
Rest: FAT32
Try to partition your sd-card with your recovery-system. Maybe this helps.
after partition in terminal emulator on phone
a2sd reinstall
then let it finish

Problem with Ext Partitons

Hi there! Like many of us here i've come to realise that the 380mb of internal storage of my Arc S is insuficient!
So i've decided to try and partition my 16GB Sd card!
I've made a research and followed one of several guides here, basically, partition my sd on a FAT 32 partition and the other one Ext4 via MiniTools and then use Link2SD to move apps to SD Card!
I've unlocked bootloader and i was on a ICS Rom! But i decided to wipe it out and give a try some KitKat Roms like Carbon, CM11, Dark CM and others on Android Development Section and give it a try on Partition my SD!
The main problem here is that i'am having problems in maintaining the Ext 4 partition!
I leave 12GB to Fat32 and the other 4 on Ext4 partition! The problem is that in some roms, the memory is recognized and in internal memory it shows up 3 or 4 GB!
But after a few days of usage, and in 3 or 4 roms i've tried, i begin to experience random reboots and at some point the phone wont boot!! And i've have to do the all thing again!
On other Roms, i make the Ext partition but on phone it shows me internal memory 380MB free and not the 3 or 4 GB! I mean on Link2SD the 2nd partition shows up (on /data/sdext2) but not as internal memory!
What am i doing wrong here? I've even tried 2 and 3 Ext partitions! The results the same! Some times it works, other it doesn't! Am i giving too much GB to ext? I've tried with 2, 3 , 4GB and the same happens!
Is there any problem with KitKat roms and Arc S on this matter? I'am beginig to think on getting back to ICS!
Thanks!
I used 16GB memory card as well and also made 4GB Ext4 partition. I used Link2SD and never occurred a problem.
Did you use any other scripts in addition to Link2SD? I didn't check the internal memory in Settings that much, but I can't remember having seen more than 420MB in the settings.
Someguyfromhell said:
I used 16GB memory card as well and also made 4GB Ext4 partition. I used Link2SD and never occurred a problem.
Did you use any other scripts in addition to Link2SD? I didn't check the internal memory in Settings that much, but I can't remember having seen more than 420MB in the settings.
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but the objective here isn't that internal memory stays "linked" to the ext partition? becouse it did happen after i finish the process to check internal memory and showing up has 3 or 4GB.
Becouse otherwise whats the point of ext partition? And then, with only 420mb showing up i try install several apps, move them to sd card, and even then there's always some data that stays on internal and fills up quickly the 420mb!

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