Hi, I have already partitioned my 8gb SD card. I made 1 FAT32 Partition with 1.3gb of unused space, while i used the left memory to make a EXT4 partition with around 6.5gb.... My question is, why the second partition is invisible in windows, and where should i put my music and stuff...... Also, Link2SD says that it can't mount the script because of an invalid argument... Please help me fix this..... I'm using HenseMod6 by the way
Around 1-2 GB of Ext partition is enough. Ext* partitions are linux filesystems and cannot be read by windows. Your music and photos should go on the fat partition.
Your rom may not support ext4, try reformatting it to ext3
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Hi,
When i first tried a2sd, i created the ext3 partition for storage, and 256mb partition for swap. Now i want to remove the swap parition. I don't really want to format my card, so is it possible to just connect my sd card to windows, and delete the swap partition in windows' disk management? i don't mind leaving 256mb unuse.
Thanks,
Glen
Hi there,
I have a little problem with a2sd.
I partitioned my 16 GB sd-card to 15GB Fat32 and 1 GB ext3.
My actual rom is AuraxTSense-8.1.1. Everything is fine ... the Desire says
640 MB ram left for applications ... that's ok.
Same when I flash MIUI. All is ok ... ok MIUI is not my favorite rom, so I want to flash the new AuraxTSense_8.4_Official_OTA_2.2_FRF91_A2SD+.zip, but there is
the problem. This rom did not notice my ext3 partition for apps, although it is an A2SD+. Same with LeeDrOiD_V2.4_A2SD.zip. On all flashing session I did a full wipe.
Now I'm back to the AuraxTSense-8.1.1 with working A2SD.
I searched the inet and forum, but I didn't find any good clue. Only hints how
to partition the sd-card. And my partition seems to be ok.
Hmm ... anyone any hint for me? AuraxTSense-8.1.1 is a bit unstable, it reboot without any reason once a day, MIUI is not mine ... I love sense ...
Thanks for your help ....
TechZombie ...
Possibly wrongly partitioned?
Try to re-partition it.
Download Gnome Partition Editor (GParted Live) here on CD or USB.
Read the documentation at on GParted website ~ how to partition your drive? (Most answers of your questions are there).
Backup your SD card data to PC before start partitioning.
Boot into GParted Live on CD or USB (Make sure that your motherboard first boot is either CD or USB).
Follow onscreen instructions to get GParted Live loaded.
Note – select your SD card as the drive. DON’T select your hard drive.
Delete every partition on SD card.
First create a primary FAT32 partition.
Then create another primary ext(2,3 or 4) partition ~ 1GB or more.
Exit GParted Live and back to Windows.
Copy back your data to SD card.
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davebugyi said:
Possibly wrongly partitioned?
Try to re-partition it.
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please try this:
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.
Mount your sd-card in clockwork-recovery.
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
@davebugyi: This was the exact way I partitioned my sd-card ... strange ...
@Keon91: The ext4 partition before the fat32? I thought ext after fat ... ok let's give a try ... must it be ext4 or is ext3 ok? I heard ext4 reduces sd-card life?
Thanks ....
TechZombie ...
as I can remember I had my ext4 partition in front of my fat32 partition.
when I view my partions in gparted ext4 is in front of fat32.
fat32 has label : sba1.
ext4 has label : sba2.
I never heard ext4 would reduce sd-card life. In the insertcoin thread they recommend a ext4 partition.
Finnaly I solved it ...
First I tried ext4 in from of fat32. Problem: Windows didn't notice the fat32 partition.
@Keon91: The lables of your partitions show that in your configuration the fat32 is also in front of the ext partition.
After this, I partitioned again with gparted to 15gb fat32 and 1gb ext3 ... both primary ... and now ... i don't know why ... the ext3 is found by a2sd ...
Thanks to all ...
TechZombie ...
Hello
I am trying to align my FAT32 partition on my SD card as per:
dubdubdub.patriotmemory.com/forums/showthread.php?3696-HOWTO-Increase-write-speed-by-aligning-FAT32
I'm having issues completing the process because my SD card has a FAT32 partition followed by an EXT4 one, whereas the guide formats the entire SD as FAT32. I've tried heaps of different things to get it working, even doing it successfully on a 4GB flash drive which was fully FAT32, but I'm convinced having the EXT4 partition after is causing problems.
When I go to (W)rite the heads/sector changes to the partition I get this error:
WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 22: Invalid argument.
The kernel still uses the old table.
The new table will be used at the next reboot.
Syncing disks.
No changes are made, not even after rebooting Linux.
Has anyone else had success with aligning their FAT32 partition with an EXT4 following it? I could try doing the entire SD card as FAT32, align it, resize it, and create an EXT4 after aligning it, but wasn't sure if this would work. I'll give it a try and see how I go.
I know its not helpful, but I was planning on doing this next time I flash a new ROM but haven't got around to it yet...
However, the link above which is clickable is here: http://www.patriotmemory.com/forums/showthread.php?3696-HOWTO-Increase-write-speed-by-aligning-FAT32
I imagine you need to change this bit:
Create a new partition that starts at cylinder 1 and ends at the end of the disk
to
Create a new partition that starts at cylinder 1 and ends at x from the end of the disk
where x is the size of the EXT partition you want to create
sadly it doesnt give the commands and i can't read the help here at work at the moment
I don't believe in such alignment.
Remove all partitions from gparted or windows disk management.
Download SD Formater utility from SD Card Association. And format your card. Full format.
Boot into gparted and shrink fat32 partition. Take note that there is 4MB in front of fat partition. Make sure it stay that way. In free space create ext partition. Use MB alignment in gparted.
That's all.
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Use MB alignment in gparted.
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I don't remember seeing that option?
what about the flashable ext alignment zip's?
Hello.
I'm having a big problem with ext4 fromatting partion.
I have using GParted program (bootable cd), and everything was great, program created 2,79 GB FAT32, and 1 GB ext4, like in the video tutorial on your site http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016084 (step five).
And I noticed, on the end of the video, when the guy is checking on htc desire space (about 2:40 min on youtube) he had 13,92 GB on FAT32 of 14,92 GB. But I have full 3,92 GB FAT32, which is the same sioze a micro sd. I dont know where I am doing wrong?
Then, I tried ROM manager, but after restart, I have blue android and triangle with !...and says that on disk e: something goes wrong ABORTED!
Do you have some idea, what can I do?
Thank you very much.
You did something wrong with gParted, delete all partitions, make one FAT32 partition and format the SD.
Then try making EXT partition in recovery, if you know how to you should change recovery to the 1 in my signature, it works flawlessly.
Nope, I formated fat32 and ext4, and when I connect htc desire to pc, and put Insertcoin.zip, its blank sd card. And then I see notification on htc, that is my sd card blank, and unsupported filesystem...
I will try and third way, that ext4recvery...
or you can try MiniTool Partition (@k3lcior yes I remember what you said).
Note: Some say that you can get errors when partitioning with windows, but I've never had any problems. Up to you.
Gparted is an awesome tool to use ??? I don't see what your doing wrong ...
Format card - New Partition - Fat 32- 2.79 gb -
Then new partition - create Ext 4 at the end 1gb....
I have done a lot of searching and i cant seem to find out how to remove the ext2 partition and get all my space back to fat32. I've tried every partition tool under the sun. Acronis, sd formatter, partition wizard, from windows, from recovery all of them. I can only see the fat32 i have and not the ext2 i made. None of the programs see this partition so cant remove it. Any idea what i can do about this
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I have done a lot of searching and i cant seem to find out how to remove the ext2 partition and get all my space back to fat32. I've tried every partition tool under the sun. Acronis, sd formatter, partition wizard, from windows, from recovery all of them. I can only see the fat32 i have and not the ext2 i made. None of the programs see this partition so cant remove it. Any idea what i can do about this
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Can do it with amonra recovery