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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

Unable to flash HD Roms

Hi all, I am able to flash many roms from the devs section (rooted with Amon Ra recovery). However I have tried to flash 3 different HD roms from dev section and I always get the same error in recovery
"E:\Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 (or /dev/block/mckblk0)
(No such device)
E:Can't mount SD EXT:
E:Failure at line 11 (or 7 depending on rom)
copy_dir PACKAGE:sdext SDEXT:
Installation aborted
The SD is partitioned using amon ra, also tried EXT3 and 4.
Anybody know how to fix this?

Ok, so you have 2 partitions on your SD card, first 1 is fat32 and second is ext4 at least 512mb?

i have two partitions but i don't know which is first or second. I use amonra recovery to create the partitions. I always use recovery to create the partitions for a2sd for other desire roms (non hd) and it always seems to work...

I think it is better to arrange the partitions using gparted, partition wizard, fdisk, etc.
I am using partition wizard and it works for HD ROMs (RCmixHD and rotating Z).

Hi...well this is kinda strange but me n my freind with same SD cards, same partition Fat32 and Ext2...he is able to flash all/any ROM but i cannot...i am currently using LeeDroid 2.3D and its working just fine....the only difference he is having HTC WWE ROM and i m having O2 UK ROM..please suggest/help
thanx in advance

I'm using BNZ 1.8C(a DHD ROM), i use recovery RA2.0.1 for partition my sdcard.With swap=0, EXT=1G, everything is ok, i also can flash ReflexTsense HD ROM. Hopes make a little help.

[Q] Troubles with sd-ext / sd card mounting

Hey @ all,
ive got a HTC Desire with these specs:
ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.2.0
HBOOT 6.93.1002
Radio 5.11.05.27
rooted, s-off
I tried ICS Beta with an ext4 partition for about 2-3 months, the performance was too slow, so i decided to get a faster GB-Rom. I did a full wipe and formatted my sd-card with Panasonic SD Formatter (Full Erase).
Then i tried to create a new ext4 partition with Mini Partition Tool Wizard.... (1. Move/Resize, 2. 2048MB of unallocated space - so i got a fat32 partition with 6GB and the 2nd unallocated partition will be turned into a EXT4 Primary Drive with 4kb Clusters) 3. Mini Partition Tool tells me that everything is done and without failure.
Then i boot in my Recovery and go to (mounts and storage/mount usb storage) win7 tells me that a new drive was found with 6GB (8GB SD Card - 2GB ext4). I copy my choise of ROM on it (in my example RSK bravo 7.4.3) - everything works.
Then i unmount USB storage and go to install zip from sdcard/choose zip from sdcard) and then a failure appears: Can´t mount /sdcard/
If i format the SDcard once again (without ext4) it works, i can install .zip´s and i can mount the sd-card.
Im really mad, cause i tried this 100times without success. Also tried a other card, same thing.
Could this be an sd-brick? (But everything works fine without ext4). Is it a problem of partitioning? Or can i solve this problem with another software or what would you try?
Sorry for my bad english
Please help me

Oh and maybe it helps to discover the issues... when i power on my desire it starts the revolutionary boot loader, without pressing the VOL- button...
Anyone got a idea what i could try? Im so

hello friend , this problem was also occur with me
Solution: run gparted and remove all partitons and create new fat32 partition then apply, your problem solved

If i format the SDcard once again (without ext4) it works, i can install .zip´s and i can mount the sd-card.
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Thx for your awnser but it also works without gparted (but just with a fat32 partition, without ext4). Have you created ext4 also with gparted and it worked?

I solved it
Tryed to format and partition with the sd card in my girlfriends unrooted desire z.
1st the desire z cant read the sd card and i thought it wouldn´t work again, but after formatting, partitioning i inserted the sdcard again in my desire - and then i go to install from sd-card, and see there: i could choose the rom
Maybe the unmounted usb from recovery was the reason, i dont know but im really happy that it worked

ClockworkMod Touch 5.8.1.5 doesn't backup sd-ext (ext3) (CyanogenMod 7.2)

Hi guys!
I've just created an sd-ext partition to copy there my apps but i've noticed that ClockworkMod Touch 5.8.1.5 can't backup it (via Nandroid); it just says "No sd-ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext".
The sd-ext partition is on ext3 format and i've created it using Ubuntu (and Disk Utility).
The phone recognize the sd-ext without any problem. I've mounted and configured it using S2E.
I can even mount the sd-ext using Ubuntu.
I don't have a "mount /sd-ext" option under Clockworkmod.
I'm using CyanogenMod 7.2 on a HTC Desire HD.
I've googled a lot and seen that some people has the same problem but i haven't find a solution; usually they have an ext4 partition that isn't recognized.
Could it be because i've formatted using Ubuntu and not using ClockworkMod itself?
Thank you!

Have you tried asking here? good luck

Or you could try 4ext recovery.

mateusm said:
Have you tried asking here? good luck
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Thank you! I'm going to post there too!
There are so many topics here that's not so easy to orientate
Edit: It seems like i can't post there because i've less than 10 posts
Any other suggestion about where to post?
Or you could try 4ext recovery.
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A friend of mine suggested me that too. If i won't be able to fix the problem with ClockworkMod i'll give a try.
What i'm sorry about is that i've bought ClockworkMod Pro and ClockworkMod Revovery Touch too and i would like to keep using them...

What is the size of the partion you created

It's 2 Gb, with 256 Mb of swap.
Don't know if it matter but the order of partitions is: SdCard Fat32 - sd-ext ext3 - swap

As a conclusion, i've switched to 4EXT Recovery, that i've also used to re-format the sdcard and create an Ext4 sd-ext.
4EXT Recovery is able to backup my sd-ext without any problem!

I have noticed the same thing as well.
Its not only CWM that has the issue also the lastest 4EXT Lastest RC9 (RC8 doesn't have this issue) and TWRP has the same issue as well.

sdcard damaged after partition with Gparted or Partition Wizard

Hello everyone. I have searched several threads before I am doing this thread but since I am newbie to all rooting and partitioning it might I am not understanding the different methods. I have this HTC Desire rooted with Unrevoked 3.32. I have installed Cyanogenmod 7.2 and have a 16Gb Sdcard Sandisk Class 2. I have read that to partition with ROM Manager and Clockworkmod is risky, so I didnt went for it (maybe I misunderstood). So I went to use Gparted and also Partition Wizard but with same outcome. I partitioned it with FAT32 and EXT2 and even EXT3 but when I mount it on phone it says SDcard damaged and needs to format it. I know that there are several threads with this problem and I am sorry if I created another but maybe I am missing something. Any help please is appreciated.

Go here:
www.4ext.net
Download recovery updater and use it to flash 4ext recovery. Use it to repartition your sd card.
Sent from my HTC Desire using Flashes and Thunders

Did you just added the ext4 partition or reformated the card completely?
I think, that gparted you be sufficient....I did it with gparted too and witout problems...
if 4ext doesn't help, try to completery reformat your card, ie delete all partitions and create new table and recreate partitions. Remeber to make the first partition FAT32 and the second partition ext4 (in this order).
Don't make to ext4 partition bigger that 1.5GB

I used both Gparted and Partition Wizard. created fat32 and tried both ext2 and 3 but not 4 but same problem, partitions created but phone says that sdcard damaged and needs to format. 4ext is user friendly or is there any tutorials for it?
power10000 said:
Did you just added the ext4 partition or reformated the card completely?
I think, that gparted you be sufficient....I did it with gparted too and witout problems...
if 4ext doesn't help, try to completery reformat your card, ie delete all partitions and create new table and recreate partitions. Remeber to make the first partition FAT32 and the second partition ext4 (in this order).
Don't make to ext4 partition bigger that 1.5GB
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joetwila said:
I used both Gparted and Partition Wizard. created fat32 and tried both ext2 and 3 but not 4 but same problem, partitions created but phone says that sdcard damaged and needs to format. 4ext is user friendly or is there any tutorials for it?
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http://4ext.net/
just download the updater app and flash recovery from within the app
Sent from my HTC Desire

jmcclue said:
http://4ext.net/
just download the updater app and flash recovery from within the app
Sent from my HTC Desire
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Don't bother, people don't want to listen.
Sent from my HTC Desire using Flashes and Thunders

thanks to all. Will have to S-off first it seems. Will do and try the apps 4ext