Regardless of what kernel or rom I use, i get 0 bytes free of internal storage. How can i fix this? Using a R800i model
wishindo said:
Regardless of what kernel or rom I use, i get 0 bytes free of internal storage. How can i fix this? Using a R800i model
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Fixed. Had to explicitly flash a data partition in flashtool. Must've not had a data partition on the nand.
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Hi,
I wondered if there was any way to see the other partition I made with rommanager.
I did the following:
Ext Size:
512MB
Swap Size:
256MB
But I can't find anything about this on my phone.
It only says the total capacity is 3GB now instead of 4GB.
Is there also a way to undo this partition?
Thanks in advance!
Burrid said:
Hi,
I wondered if there was any way to see the other partition I made with rommanager.
I did the following:
Ext Size:
512MB
Swap Size:
256MB
But I can't find anything about this on my phone.
It only says the total capacity is 3GB now instead of 4GB.
Is there also a way to undo this partition?
Thanks in advance!
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you can undo the partition by setting ext2 and swap to 0
AndroHero said:
you can undo the partition by setting ext2 and swap to 0
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Oh, thanks a lot for that comment, that's one mystery solved
Hi guys, today im here to discuss, or to know about internal space.
I saw in SE Website, it says that Xperia Arc have 1GB Internal Storage but only up to 380MB free.
Why?
What is 620MB? Android isn't it.
Velcis Ribeiro said:
Hi guys, today im here to discuss, or to know about internal space.
I saw in SE Website, it says that Xperia Arc have 1GB Internal Storage but only up to 380MB free.
Why?
What is 620MB? Android isn't it.
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Other storage space is allocated in different partitions e.g. /system, /cache etc.
380 MB is user available storage.
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zangetsu2188 said:
Other storage space is allocated in different partitions e.g. /system, /cache etc.
380 MB is user available storage.
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Hmm, thanks very much
hey guys i wanna fix my low on space error and for that i would have to make a partition on my sd card
i just wanna know if its possible to make it from recovery and how so?
thanks
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JunaidZaka said:
hey guys i wanna fix my low on space error and for that i would have to make a partition on my sd card
i just wanna know if its possible to make it from recovery and how so?
thanks
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In CWM or PX recovery there is option to make partition on sd card. Search it, perhaps it is in advenced options
Before making a partition: Copy all files from you sd-card to your computer, then partition the sdcard, after partition, restore all the files again
iok1 said:
Before making a partition: Copy all files from you sd-card to your computer, then partition the sdcard, after partition, restore all the files again
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Oh, yeah, i forget to write this. Making partitions via recovery deletes all your files from sd-card. About two weeks ago I did it -,-
But making partition via PC is safy
After creating a partition on your sdcard download link2sd from market and create ext4 partition and restart your device
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so hoe much size do i have to choose for the partition
and after itd partitioned
what should i do yo transfer apps to sd?
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JunaidZaka said:
so hoe much size do i have to choose for the partition
and after itd partitioned
what should i do yo transfer apps to sd?
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For me 256 MB is fine. Then use S2E, for example, to move system apps on sd-card
wojtek267 said:
For me 256 MB is fine. Then use S2E, for example, to move system apps on sd-card
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No, dalvik cache and user apps are better in my opinion
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is 512 mb fine ?
and how to configure A2SD
just partition and then move apps to sd ?
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It's better to make partition size not more than by 10% of your sd-card.
Like if you have 8gb sd-card then you should make around 750-780mb to be on safe side
Just installed CM 11 which is about 210MB (as a zip file).
According to my phone, the internal storage is only 5.41GB. I would have expected something like 8GB-5%. I dont know wthether it's always been like this...
Any ideas, explanation etc?
It's because of the partitons of your phone
It's still the same as stock the advantage is that you can put more mods or apps into /system
System partition is 1.5gb mine with all gapps installed is 800mb free
that's where yoor missing space is
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Hello,
many users complain that since lollipop their system partition size doesn't reflect the actual system of the block device. Therefore, they can not install some extra in this partition( busybox, big gapps packages,etc.).
This is due to the system image size specified when building the rom:
One of the parameter of your system partition(which has been hardcoded in some config file, I.e. BoardConfig) is its size, but if the block device(i.e. the part of your internal storage that will be mounted for the system partition)'s size that is mounted is larger than the system partition's size than you will loose some space.
TWRP has included this feature into their recovery from 2.8.7.0 and onwards ! You don't need to get my flashable package if you got a newer version than this.
Fortunately resize2fs executable allows to modify an ext2,ext3,ext4 partition size:
linux man page said:
The resize2fs program will resize ext2, ext3, or ext4 file systems. It can be used to enlarge or shrink an unmounted file system located on device. If the filesystem is mounted, it can be used to expand the size of the mounted filesystem, assuming the kernel supports on-line resizing. (As of this writing, the Linux 2.6 kernel supports on-line resize for filesystems mounted using ext3 only.).
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This package simply resizes your system size to match the size of your block device size.
It does not alter your partitions table just reclaim the unmounted space.
Instructions:
Boot on a twrp 2.8.x.y TWRP recovery
flash the package
Download :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9kxrJw-dzUmNG12QkdaU3R4Ujg/view
Credits :
@m11kkaa from whom I took the idea
Lets see if I understood this correctly. Currently in Lollipop the system partition is smaller than the block where the partition resides? And if the partition size doesn't match the block size, you will loose the remaining space on the block? The remaining space on the block is not available to any other partition?
That's correct. Your system partition is mounted with am 800 mb allocated space. Depending on your ROM ypou might loose some space.
Here I got 437 mb of free space .
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Tried it and my system partition went from 643.7MB to 787.9MB in size on Lollipopalooza. That definetily helps with installing gapps as last time I had to leave off quite a few apps to get it to fit. So just to make sure, this extra space isn't taken from any other partition? It just made the system partition use the unallocated free space on the block?
Which app do you use to see partition sizes? How can I see what it is vs what it should be? Thanks.
CazeW said:
Tried it and my system partition went from 643.7MB to 787.9MB in size on Lollipopalooza. That definetily helps with installing gapps as last time I had to leave off quite a few apps to get it to fit. So just to make sure, this extra space isn't taken from any other partition? It just made the system partition use the unallocated free space on the block?
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Exactly.it corrects some internal ext4's variables that represents the size of fs to match the block's
lepa71 said:
Which app do you use to see partition sizes? How can I see what it is vs what it should be? Thanks.
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There are plenty out there . I use fx embedded filesystem's analysis
Excellent! I have one more question. As we know, modifying the system partition means that otas will fail. So if before I had to uninstall say Play Movies to make room for busybox, then I'd have had to reinstall it if I wanted to flash an OTA. With this method, the md5 signature of system isn't altered, and therefore otas wont fail, right?
You are on aosp ?
Khaon said:
You are on aosp ?
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Stock factory image + root, uninstalled Play Movies to make room for busybox
Do I need to do anything?
You used my mod right ?
Best way is either issue
df in a terminal console or install this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cls.partition
It will display the actual filesystem size .disk info display the size of your ssd
Sent from my nexus 10.
Khaon said:
You used my mod right ?
Best way is either issue
df in a terminal console or install this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cls.partition
It will display the actual filesystem size .disk info display the size of your ssd
Sent from my nexus 10.
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Thank you very much for your mod.
I want to try it but I'm a little bit afraid. Do I lose any data? Will this affect the installation of other ROMs? I'm on stock now but I want to try some custom ROMs to decide. Do I have to use your mod every time I install a new ROM?
Thanks in advance!
You won't loose any data it will adjust the size of ext4 fs to the actual physical size of your partition.
Flashing a new lollipop ROM flashes a new system image which specifies the image size.
Our device system image size is defined here https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_samsung_manta/blob/cm-12.0/BoardConfig.mk#L64
685768704 is 654 megabyte but your mmcblk0p8 partition mounted on /system is 800 mb.
Until this is fixed. Will open a ticket to increase this value but there are maybe few reason google chose 654.
And yes you must reflash it each to flash
Sent from my nexus 10.
If you replying to my question then I didn't do anything. I'm asking I should do it.
Is this only for CM based roms?
Thanks
Khaon said:
You used my mod right ?
Best way is either issue
df in a terminal console or install this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cls.partition
It will display the actual filesystem size .disk info display the size of your ssd
Sent from my nexus 10.
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lepa71 said:
If you replying to my question then I didn't do anything. I'm asking I should do it.
Is this only for CM based roms?
Thanks
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any roms
Khaon said:
any roms
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I installed the app you said, but I didn't see any unclaimed space. Is your mod for stock ROM as well? I seem to have 644MB of space on the /system partition.
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_Raziel666 said:
I installed the app you said, but I didn't see any unclaimed space. Is your mod for stock ROM as well? I seem to have 644MB of space on the /system partition.
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Well the maximum space you system partition can get is 800mb. The system of je partition number 8.
Thus you are looking space.
The resizes just fixes that
Read this post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=59016220
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So mine shows 800 for system partition. Does this mean I don't have to do anything? Thanks
Khaon said:
You used my mod right ?
Best way is either issue
df in a terminal console or install this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cls.partition
It will display the actual filesystem size .disk info display the size of your ssd
Sent from my nexus 10.
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Don't use disk info but rather one of tje two over here.
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lepa71 said:
So mine shows 800 for system partition. Does this mean I don't have to do anything? Thanks
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Yes, if your system partition is already 800MB in size then you're already using the whole block.