Wiping storage partition. - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Will preforming a wipe delete the phone storage partition?
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In wipe options it has one that says Wipe SD:ext partition. What does that exactly do, what does it wipe from SD? I don't understand that one.
dont worry. if you didnt manually create an ext partition using the partition sd option then, more than likely, you dont have one. it can be used as external cache basically.
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System wipe

Any way to format the internal storage via CWM?
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Not that i know, but you could just lock and unlock your bootloader to wipe everything.
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AZ FadeOut said:
Any way to format the internal storage via CWM?
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Flash stock recovery.
Factory reset device.
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AZ FadeOut said:
Any way to format the internal storage via CWM?
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You can. You just need a script that will do it. If you can't find one, I can make one up for you tomorrow.
The other suggestions made will certainly erase you data/settings, but not the rom.
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But formatting /system will erase the rom, but not the internal storage?
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But formatting /system will erase the rom, but not the internal storage?
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What do you want to erase? Just the data partition? You can easily do that either by locking and unlocking your bootloader or by doing a factory reset, as was mentioned. If you want to wipe your device, you have to do that with fastboot erase or via a script in CWM.
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Basically I just want to make sure that by erasing my system I won't wipe my storage
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Basically I just want to make sure that by erasing my system I won't wipe my storage
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Your rom is on the system partition (along with anything you install on the system partition via root). Your apps and settings and sdcard are stored on the userdata partition. Unlocking the bootloader erases the entire userdata partition. A factory rest in CWM erases the userdata partition EXCLUDING sdcard. A factory reset in the stock recovery erases the entire userdata partition.
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this worked for me:
-in recovery mount data and system
in adb shell type:
cd /sdcard
rm -rf directorynamehere
reboot

Wipe Data - SDcard space too?

Hey all, I'm new to the Galaxy Nexus. When you wipe data does that wipe your internal storage as well? As in the mnt/SDcard partition.
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No. Your content is in data/media
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In a custom recovery, no. I believe stock recovery will wipe everything.
3rdstring said:
In a custom recovery, no. I believe stock recovery will wipe everything.
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Yup if you're on stock recovery, it'll delete everything except things like ROM and kernel
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gmap516 said:
Hey all, I'm new to the Galaxy Nexus. When you wipe data does that wipe your internal storage as well? As in the mnt/SDcard partition.
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Just to add some detail:
When you wipe data (or factory reset) using a stock recovery, it wipes the entire userdata partition (which is mounted as /data in Android). The userdata partition is where all your data is stored included anything stored in /sdcard. [It does not touch any other partition. So if you have a custom ROM, doing a factory reset will not magically restore the stock ROM. Same thing for the other partitions.]
When you wipe data (factory reset) using a custom recovery, it deletes all files in /data except the files in /data/media (which is mounted as /sdcard in Android).

Formatting system

Noob question... What will happen when I format system. What will I lose and keep. Will my internal storage get lost? And will I have to push new rom back to phone via usb transfer. I do understand wiping data, both caches, and system, but what does formatting system do.?
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Your ROM is installed on /system. If you wipe system you wipe the os. It doesn't touch the data or internal storage.
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Yes,you have to push new rom back to phone via usb transfer!
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Yes,you have to push new rom back to phone via usb transfer!
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no. no you dont.
wiping /system just erases the /system partition.
Thanx guys... I think I'm good. System wipe/format system will not erase data. But a data format wipe you lose everything. That's what I thought but wanted to double check so I didn't lose important data.
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Clean up internal storage

Hello does somebody knows when you use cwm recovery and choose mount and storage and push mount unmount system/data/cache/sdcard and sd ext wil erase your backups? Becousse i have tried diffent roms on my lg optimus g e975 but i only have 13g left i would like to restart with cm10.2 with clean
Storage please help
Thanx in advance
Barry
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Just format the sdcard and you will have totally clean storage.
Bud will it delete my ROM i am on or only sdcard?
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Sdcard is the storage and only wipes that, if you format system you take away the rom tough.

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