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How to Partition your Sd Card??

How to partition your SD Card for us Newbies.
how can i do that? Ext2 , Ext3
i have a 8 gb sd card class 6. someone guide me please with a link
Thnx

acronis disk manager can do that but the card wouldnt boot in my phone, so i used the phones internal boot up manager to do it, unlocker.com has a video guide. i only been doing this my self passed 3 days and its been really confusing so good luck

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oMaRcO said:
How to partition your SD Card for us Newbies.
Thnx
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Introductory Remarks:
- Ext Partition is only needed if your rom uses App2SD+ (Froyo app2sd works with basic Fat32 partition)
- "Install apps to sd" (ext) must sometimes be configured in your ROM, check the thread for your rom for infos...
- Backup your SD card before you start ! The following steps will wipe the contents !
- Ext partitions are only visible in Linux = Windows can't see it.
- Swap Partitions are no longer useful.
- You can check if you have a working ext partition with Quick system info (in app market)
- On first reboot after partition, android will move some apps to the SD, this will take a lot of time. Some people have reported a bootloop on green HTC Screen, one reported a need to Battery pull 4 times before it finally worked), so be patient!!!!
- If the device is plugged into a PC when you try to boot with the partitioned SDCard it never gets past the white HTC sceen & logo.
Now the tutorials:
A. Easiest way is to install Rom Manager:
1) install rom manager
2) choose partition sd card
- 512mb ext
- 0 swap
3) let RM do the rest... ;-)
- I believe Rom Manager (as of end of July) creates an ext2 partition, therefore if you want ext3 or 4, easiest is to go through Gparted, or if you have amonRa Recovery, I believe this function is present.
B. Another one is using Gparted:
(copied this from http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Apps2SD)
You can use a livecd of GParted, or use it from within Ubuntu (vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVK-t...eature=related)
+ You can do this using your phone to mount the SD card or a Card adapter directly connected to your computer.
1) Connect your phone to your computer (or use an SD Card adapter...., in this case skip to 4))
2) Pull down the notification bar and mount the phone
3) Start Gparted
4) Gparted will search available drives. (Your phone should show up as a USB drive, and will be something like /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdc1, etc..)
Warning: double-check you've not selected a hdd by mistake!
5) In the upper right corner, select the correct USB device for your phone. (i.e. check to make sure it is correct size for your SD card)
6) Right click on each partition and select 'unmount'
7) Right click on each partition and select 'delete'
If you know what you are doing, you can re-size the partitions and add a new 2nd partition formatted as ext2/3/4
8) Right click on the big gray bar (should say unallocated x.xx gb) and click 'new'
9) Enter configurations
Free Space preceding = 0
Create as = Primary
New size = [don't touch]
File system = fat32
Free Space Following = 512 (or whatever you want)
10) Click add
11) Right click on the big gray bar (should say unallocated x.xx gb) and click 'new'
12) Enter configurations
Free Space preceding = 0
Create as = Primary
New size = [don't touch]
File system = ext3 or 4 (recommend ext4)
Free Space Following = 0
Click add
13) [CHECK AGAIN you are working on your SD card and not your Hard Drive!!!!] Click edit, then 'Apply All Operations' to write changes to disk
14) Quit GParted
15) Unmount your SD Card
16) Reboot your phone and wait (see introductory remarks)
C. Recovery Images
Some Recovery Images also have a option to format your SD card from the recovery screen. (see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=721792).
I have not tried that.
As long as you have an ext2/3/4 partition and the ROM you're flashing has A2SD support (check before you download the ROM), you are not required to do anything more.
D. How to check if it worked?
To check whether A2SD is working once you've flashed your ROM,
1)Download Quick System Info from the Market, and check under A2SD Storage, it should give you enough informations.
2)download the Android Terminal Emulator app from the market and use the following commands
Code:
su
ls -l /data
You should see your app directory pointing to /system/sd/app and app-private pointing to /system/sd/app-private (courtesy of ikkokusenkin)
E. Further Infos
See: http://geeks.pirillo.com/profiles/blogs/how-to-partition-an-sd-card or :
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f...rtition-14232/ or:
http://theunlockr.com/2009/10/15/ho...-android-when-using-swap-hero-and-or-apps2sd/ (With Rav Recovery...) or:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534714 (most complicated way.... )
related thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731432&page=2
F. Open Questions:
What I don't know:
- If the size of the ext partition matters (if you have to choose 256/512 or 1024, and can't have 600mb for example?
- What ROMs require ext partitions? (all with app2sd+, basic froyo app2sd doesn't require ext partition).
- If Class 6 SD cards really are that important (some webpages say that class 2 cards are not able to handle ext2 partitions and end up bricked.
- How to manage the contents in the ext partition when changing SD Cards... (do you need any management of your ext partition?) or you have to reinstall those apps????) See here.
- How to check if you bricked your sd card...
- etc...
Good Luck

Use Rom Manager
Completely painless, took less that 2 mins to do mine
PS - It may appear to stuck at the HTC white screen after completion, I just left it and
it booted up normally after about 3 mins
50 apps installed and 132MB spare!!

The first time round the Rom manager worked for me. But I again formatted the card thinking i had not followed the right partitioning so i tried again but i get stuck on a black screen with SU request written forever which needs to be force closed.
Please advise. thanks

I recently bought a 32gb sandisk and want to get that working heres what I have done with no luck:
I inserted the new memory card and it picked up fine on the phone then I went to rom manager to partition the card, 512mb and 0 swap it reboots but only stays in clockwork mod, from here I dont know what to do.
If I connect the phone to the computer with the card mounted it displays the card as raw not fat32 but music files drag and drop and easily play.
I could format it from the computer to fat32 but I'll wait and see what you guys say.

Chan_B said:
I recently bought a 32gb sandisk and want to get that working heres what I have done with no luck:
I inserted the new memory card and it picked up fine on the phone then I went to rom manager to partition the card, 512mb and 0 swap it reboots but only stays in clockwork mod, from here I dont know what to do.
If I connect the phone to the computer with the card mounted it displays the card as raw not fat32 but music files drag and drop and easily play.
I could format it from the computer to fat32 but I'll wait and see what you guys say.
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Try to format the card back to fat32 using:
http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/index.html
Then check out the Windows way of using parted to partition
http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-manually-partition-your-sd-card-for-android-apps2sd/
After partitioning I use clockworkmod to upgrade ext2 to 3.
And you can't always set a linux swap of 0 so calculate 1MB for that part.

I got it to fat32 but then the windows way of using parted to partition seems difficult. How can I tell if I have partitioned my card successfully? How can I partition using clockworkmod only, when I go to partitions menu it only says mount or format, this is frustrating...

Chan_B said:
I got it to fat32 but then the windows way of using parted to partition seems difficult. How can I tell if I have partitioned my card successfully? How can I partition using clockworkmod only, when I go to partitions menu it only says mount or format, this is frustrating...
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gparted has a live cd to partition your sd card
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

Hi, i see you all set swap as 0 does that mean its using phone internal storage as swap how fast is read/write of phone ram ? i have class2 32gb card i used the phone boot with the r5 windows.bat to get into it and i set 256 swap/512 ext2/ rest 32bit all seems to work fine.
i note that writing to the sd card is about 2MBps and read is 10MBps.
i have a class4 8gb that writes at 10MBps reads about 17MBps i have had both in the phone and i cant say that i notice lag on the 32GB but i havent had it more than a few days and coming from xda orbit its a big difference.
if i use the card as storage the phone becomes very lag but maybe thats cause in that mode it would have no swap file? might change that when i finally flash to froyo.
gparted kept saying it was unformatted when windows said it was formatted so i gave up with it.

gianton said:
gparted has a live cd to partition your sd card
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Thanks, but I think I sorted it. Fingers crossed.

Just rooted my htc desire and used rom manager to partition my sd card (the one I got when I bought the phone). Everything fine.
then I bought a new Transcend micro sdhc 8GB... this memory card is not recognize by windows if using card reader. So..:
- I inserted into blackberry and connected using usb cable. My windows (Windows xp) can see and access it.
- formatted the new memory card to Fat32
- copy Open Desire and and Official Sense Froyo ROMs, both by Adam
- flashed to Sense Froyo ROM, and when it rebooted, it freezed.. cant get into the system
- flashed to OpenDesire, it worked.
- Download ROM Manager
- choose "Partition SD Card"
- Swap 0, Ext 512mb
- ERROR...
what should I do?

Did you download Clockworkmod recovery through ROM Manager before that?

If you create a partition using rom manager do you lose all your apps and settings that you already have in use.
thanks

jankos said:
Did you download Clockworkmod recovery through ROM Manager before that?
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yes.. cos when i clicked partition sd card, it asked me to download clockworkmod first.
it goes to recovery screen but with "unsucsessfull" message. cant find sdcard/cache/update.zip ...
the funny thing is, if I copied update.zip from my old memory card into new one. and run update.zip from recovery screen... then it worked.
but when I checked with quick system info, app2sd only shows around 400mb. is that rite?

aoisora said:
yes.. cos when i clicked partition sd card, it asked me to download clockworkmod first.
it goes to recovery screen but with "unsucsessfull" message. cant find sdcard/cache/update.zip ...
the funny thing is, if I copied update.zip from my old memory card into new one. and run update.zip from recovery screen... then it worked.
but when I checked with quick system info, app2sd only shows around 400mb. is that rite?
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Its showing around 400mb for me aswell, but how exactly can I tell if it is working. If I go to manage applications and click on sd card I have a couple that I moved over i.e rom manager but some apps are unmovable to sd card. Are these apps unmovable by design. I hope I haven't done it wrong.
BTW neophyte is the best rom I've used yet.

I made partition with Rom Manager.
Do I need now to "swap" ext2 to ext3?
If so, how do I do it?!

mattan said:
I made partition with Rom Manager.
Do I need now to "swap" ext2 to ext3?
If so, how do I do it?!
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I think rom manager does that as ext3.

mattan said:
I made partition with Rom Manager.
Do I need now to "swap" ext2 to ext3?
If so, how do I do it?!
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ROM Manager makes directly ext3 format. Do not worry about that

jankos said:
ROM Manager makes directly ext3 format. Do not worry about that
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No it doesn't it makes a ext2 partition, you have to format to ext3... I have used gparted live cd to do this.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

[Q]How to ext partition a formatted SD card?

Hi,
Im having this problem for a couple of days-
I bought a new 16gb micro sdhc card and dying to use it.
Unfortunately- RCMixHD rom uses the ext partition as it loads, and i dont have that kind of partition in my new 16gb card so the device wont even load!
Ive tried some ways to create the ext partition-
Tried formatting it via the clockwork from the HBOOT-
it tells me that the a2sd doesnt show or something.
Tried to flash the amnora recovery- cant get that to work yet:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9644805#post9644805
Is there any way to do that via windows?
Why is that so hard?
Thanks ahead...

I think it's best with gparted or some other linux distro.
You also have more control on the process.
You can download a live cd from here.
Backup your SD card before you start.
chrysochire said:
1) Connect your phone to your computer (or use an SD Card adapter...., in this case skip to 4))
2) Pull down the notification bar and mount the phone
3) Start Gparted
4) Gparted will search available drives. (Your phone should show up as a USB drive, and will be something like /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdc1, etc..)
Warning: double-check you've not selected a hdd by mistake!
5) In the upper right corner, select the correct USB device for your phone. (i.e. check to make sure it is correct size for your SD card)
6) Right click on each partition and select 'unmount'
7) Right click on each partition and select 'delete'
If you know what you are doing, you can re-size the partitions and add a new 2nd partition formatted as ext2/3/4
8) Right click on the big gray bar (should say unallocated x.xx gb) and click 'new'
9) Enter configurations
Free Space preceding = 0
Create as = Primary
New size = [don't touch]
File system = fat32
Free Space Following = 512 (or whatever you want)
10) Click add
11) Right click on the big gray bar (should say unallocated x.xx gb) and click 'new'
12) Enter configurations
Free Space preceding = 0
Create as = Primary
New size = [don't touch]
File system = ext3 or 4 (recommend ext4)
Free Space Following = 0
Click add
13) [CHECK AGAIN you are working on your SD card and not your Hard Drive!!!!] Click edit, then 'Apply All Operations' to write changes to disk
14) Quit GParted
15) Unmount your SD Card
16) Reboot your phone and wait (On first reboot after partition, android will move some apps to the SD, this will take a lot of time. Some people have reported a bootloop on green HTC Screen, one reported a need to Battery pull 4 times before it finally worked), so be patient!
As long as you have an ext2/3/4 partition and the ROM you're flashing has A2SD support (check before you download the ROM), you are not required to do anything more.
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If you need a more detailed guide you can find many with google but they are more complicated and you'll have to read more.

3722 said:
I think it's best with gparted or some other linux distro.
You also have more control on the process.
You can download a live cd from here.
Backup your SD card before you start.
If you need a more detailed guide you can find many with google but they are more complicated and you'll have to read more.
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Many many thanks!

AmonRA can format/partition with no issues, I always use it

3722 said:
I think it's best with gparted or some other linux distro.
You also have more control on the process.
You can download a live cd from here.
Backup your SD card before you start.
If you need a more detailed guide you can find many with google but they are more complicated and you'll have to read more.
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Im really new at linux and just finding my feet. Do i need an ext2/3 and 4 partitions ?
I have 8gb card 6gb fat32 1gb ext3 and 1gb ext 4
should i make a 2/3/4 partition with 1gb each and 5gb fat32 ?
sorry for the daft questions but I have just installed linux for the 1st time

You should only have one ext partition (ext3 type I recommend) and the other should be FAT32.
FAT32 should be the first and ext3 the second.
1GB ext3 should be okay for you.
Just follow the instructions above and you'll be alright .

Thanks so it should look like this ?

sorry duff pic

I've not done it with the native utility but from what I can see it looks okay.
Just backup your stuff and try it.

3722 said:
I've not done it with the native utility but from what I can see it looks okay.
Just backup your stuff and try it.
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i cant find gpart or is it something i need to d/load and install?
ok found it lol love this linux already better than windows

3722 said:
I think it's best with gparted or some other linux distro.
You also have more control on the process.
You can download a live cd from here.
Backup your SD card before you start.
If you need a more detailed guide you can find many with google but they are more complicated and you'll have to read more.
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thank you very much

[Q] Acer Iconia A101 Stock Rom (problem)

Hi, I'm Nicola, from Italy.
Sorry for my english....
I have a problem.
My acer A101 has a stock ROM type ACER AV041_A101_1.014.00_WW_GEN1.
I downloaded the Acer_A101_2.518.01_041.103.02_COM_GEN1H which I think is more recent.
Reading various guides online I'm able to install this stock rom.
I'm using TWRP 2.2.1 as recovery and I know that our tab recognizes the internal memory as SDCARD and the micro sd as EXTERNAL_SD ( in my case is a Sandisk 32GB class 4 (first 5GB Ext2 partition , FAT32 second 26 Gb FAT32 ).
- I did copy and paste 1000 times between SD and EXT_SD, including root and so on.
- I unpacked the archive with the name mentioned above in order to find 3 files: update.zip; Amss.zip; Acer_A101_2.518.01_041.103.02_COM_GEN1H.txt (empty text).
- I tried to decrypt the update.Zip with classic tool by THOR but does not work (it says corrupted archive). Tried also with the java terminal (as described here: forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php? P = 14204276 # post14204276 but archive damaged).
When I go into recovery for flashing ROM the message always returns : STATUS 7 (flashing error ..... "various path" / update.zip).
Who can help me?
Thank you!

Use stock recovery to install stock Roms or you get those issues.
Tapatalked from my HTC DNA

Various: Internal storage single partition, SD CARD EXT4, Recovery for NEWMAN K1

Hi guys,
I reached this thread due no section available for Newman phones.
I purchased a Newman K1 and i have a question (which are almost general questions)
1) I want to put MKV files (big files more than 4 gb) on the SD Card, which is automatically formatted to FAT32 only by android... i need ntfs (but it's not read by android) or ext4 (but the phone doesn't format in ext4). What can i do?
2) I want to merge all internal memory (4gb) in a single partition, and not apps+space, cause i'll use the external SD as the only data+files partition and i want big app single partition for the internal memory, but i dunno how i can repartition.
3) I have Super SU already installed, so the phone should be rooted, however ROM Manager doesn't seem to be able to install the recovery, it says it's already there but says that anyway and anyhow he cannot get supersu access.
4) How do i enter in recovery mode on a newman K1?
Regards

Problem on flashing CronMod

Hi there,
I am using CM11 by Olivier, CWM v6. I am trying to flash CronMod INT2EXTV2+ to increase internal storage. Unfortunately, I experienced Installation aborted every time. I tried to download from phone directly and PC, but still can't solve the problem. Can anyone help me?

try CronMod-INT2EXT4+,
View attachment CronMod-INT2EXT4+_signed.zip

ivanto0115 said:
Hi there,
I am using CM11 by Olivier, CWM v6. I am trying to flash CronMod INT2EXTV2+ to increase internal storage. Unfortunately, I experienced Installation aborted every time. I tried to download from phone directly and PC, but still can't solve the problem. Can anyone help me?
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Please answer the following questions to be able to help you better.
1. Do you have a working sdcard installed on your phone ? (silly, :silly: but important)
2. Have you made the appropriate partitions on your sdcard ? (usually 3 partitions are required; 1 fat,1 ext and 1 swap)
3. Does your kernel have init.d support?

cortezthekiller said:
Please answer the following questions to be able to help you better.
1. Do you have a working sdcard installed on your phone ? (silly, :silly: but important)
2. Have you made the appropriate partitions on your sdcard ? (usually 3 partitions are required; 1 fat,1 ext and 1 swap)
3. Does your kernel have init.d support?
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1. I have a working SanDisk 4GB sdcard.
2. What is that? I have no idea?
3. I didn't install any kernel.
Thx,

ivanto0115 said:
1. I have a working SanDisk 4GB sdcard.
2. What is that? I have no idea?
3. I didn't install any kernel.
Thx,
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Since you are using CM11 by Olivier, I believe it supports init.d. No issues there.
So, the reason CronMod script is not working for you is that you don't have appropriate partitions on your sdcard. CronMod script "increases" your internal memory by basically mounting the external sdcard partition as your internal memory. For this to be possible, sdcard should have a partition formatted as ext2/ext4 file system.
In simpler words, I would recommend you to create atleast two partitions on your sdcard both primary. One of them should have ext2 file system and the other fat32. (ext2 will be mounted as internal memory and fat32 will be your "normally" usable sdcard). Having a swap partition is optional.
I am running CronMod Int2ExtV2+ Script with following partition scheme on a 4GB sdcard.
Partition1- fat32 (2.5 GB)
Partition2- ext2 (1 GB)
Partition3- swap (512 MB)
**Please backup your data and start afresh with your ROM**
Here is a handy guide for creating partitions on your sdcard.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=SD_card_partitioning
Happy to help...
XDA has this really cool feature for acknowledging help, "THE THANKS BUTTON", use it.

cortezthekiller said:
Partition1- ext2 (1 GB)
Partition2- fat32 (2.5 GB)
Partition3- swap (512 MB)
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That's not right. The first partition have to be FAT32 for use as sdcard and the 2nd one will be ext2/3/4. Just reverse Partition 1 and 2.

aWFSuser said:
That's not right. The first partition have to be FAT32 for use as sdcard and the 2nd one will be ext2/3/4. Just reverse Partition 1 and 2.
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Well, at the time of posting, I didn't mean that to be in any order. That's why I posted the link on how to create the partitions. But anyways, it can be confusing, so I changed it. Thanks.