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I'm wondering where all the free space is for the /data partition on the Speedy/Evo Shift.
On my T-Mobile G2 which I had before the Speedy (which is basically the same hardware, just GSM), it 2GB of ROM and /data was something like 1.2GB (I forget exactly how much, somewhere between 1.1-1.4GB), but on the Speedy, which also has 2GB of ROM, even on CyanogenMod, /data is only ~430MB.
I ran df in the terminal and came up with a total of 1067MB between /system, /data and /cache so i'm wondering where the other nearly 1GB of space is. I know there's a bit for recovery and a bit for the WiMAX keys, but that adds up to less than 100MB.
Any help/idea/thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks
JD
I dunno but I'd love to know the answer myself.
^ Shift Faced
Right, so I recently just heard of this thing that mounts(?) an ext partition of your sdcard to the /data partition, meaning, instead of a lousy 400 MB, I could have 8 or16 GB for apps and data, wouldn't that be amazing?
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KeiranFTW said:
Right, so I recently just heard of this thing that mounts(?) an ext partition of your sdcard to the /data partition, meaning, instead of a lousy 400 MB, I could have 8 or16 GB for apps and data, wouldn't that be amazing?
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random lol. but wouldn't it be slower?
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random lol. but wouldn't it be slower?
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Link2sd from the market is what i use. Only tried 1gb as second partion on my play, made it 16gb on my sony tablet. I think you gaim more ram and speed things up this way and i have not noticed any slow down becase of the card. It is really great
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I think what the OP is mentioning is Mounting the sd-ext AS the data partition. That way there's no 3rd party app to mess up (I've had Link2SD silently crash and accidentally get the low space warning twice). With sd-ext mounted as the data partition then you're not relying on an app running in the background monitoring app installs and then linking them to the sd card.
I believe it could be done, but I don't know the equivalent of fstab editing in android.
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I think what the OP is mentioning is Mounting the sd-ext AS the data partition. That way there's no 3rd party app to mess up (I've had Link2SD silently crash and accidentally get the low space warning twice). With sd-ext mounted as the data partition then you're not relying on an app running in the background monitoring app installs and then linking them to the sd card.
I believe it could be done, but I don't know the equivalent of fstab editing in android.
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bet its simple lol. HTC Desire has it.
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Yes, it's amazing and even better possible! I've achieved it on your DarkForest RC2 with DoomKernel.
- Partition your sdcard so that ext4 is the second primary partition
- Flash the zip in CWM.
- In a terminal emulator type: data2ext --enable
- With Root explorer go to system/etc/init.d and open 40data2ext
- Edit PATH=/system/xbin:/system/bin to PATH=/system/xbin:/system/bin:/sbin
- Reboot, you will have no signal
- Reboot in CWM and fix permissions.
- Now with signal enjoy your large internal memory.
The script was made for HTC Legend. Here the original thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=902395
Possible on a stock rom running DoomKernel?
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On the root of the device there's a fstab and a recovery.fstab.
fstab
/data yaffs2 userdata
/cache yaffs2 cache
recovery.fstab
# mount point fstype device [device2] fstype2
/cache yaffs2 cache
/data yaffs2 userdata
/system yaffs2 system
/sdcard vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
/sd-ext auto /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
Seems like if you can format the mmcblk0p2 to yaffs2 you can set data to it. I'd be hesitant to move the data partition unless I can format sd-ext to match. I'll try it sometime but my folks are in this weekend.
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I'm using the Link2SD as well. I just shrunk my FAT32 partition on my SD card, created an ext2 partition about 1gig. Link2SD mounted it up, and I'm able to "Link" the apps Data, Lib and Dex files to the new 1gig partition, or leave them local. I even moved Map and the 9mb from QuickOffice Pro that I couldn't move with the normal App2SD. I'm using the signed Sony Ericsson rom that is posted on these forums somewhere. I can't find the forum post to it lately. My boot loader is also locked but I am rooted. No updated kernel unless the Sony rom did it.
I'm looking for some input into what you fine folks think is the best partition scheme for the Kindle Fire. Share yours, constructively criticize others; this is a battle royale in which the winner will get my KF partitioned under his or her scheme.
6/7GB and then the rest for the OS. Only because yesterday I tried to transfer all my Amazon MP3 bought stuff using doubleTwist and 5GB wasn't enough and didn't give me room for anything else. :silly: 1GB is enough for the OS.
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6/7GB and then the rest for the OS. Only because yesterday I tried to transfer all my Amazon MP3 bought stuff using doubleTwist and 5GB wasn't enough and didn't give me room for anything else. :silly: 1GB is enough for the OS.
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Isn't this the default?
moore.bryan said:
Isn't this the default?
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I think that's his point.
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No, it's 5GB.
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So, it seems, the forum has answered one of two options:
the ROM's native partition is fine or
increase the sdcard partition by 1GB.
About right?
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No, it's 5GB.
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It looks like I misunderstand the Fire's memory partitioning..
When I look at the partitioning my Fire running CM9 nightly's from Hashcode, I see its got 528mb for System ROM (281 free), 1.17Gb Internal (975 mb free) and 5.36Gb for the SDcard partition. I thought that layout was standard. That's more than 5Gb for the SDCard though, right ?
Adding that up I get only about 7Gb accounted for, so I am for sure missing something. Recovery partition for TWRP maybe ?
I got these numbers from Titanium Backup Pro, so maybe its not telling me stuff I don't need to know about.
You are saying you can increase the SDCard partition from 5.36Gb to 6Gb by reducing the size of the Internal partition ?
If so, would that limit the number and size of the programs you could install on your Fire, but give you more room for music and stuff ?
Thanks,
Glenn
glennj99 said:
It looks like I misunderstand the Fire's memory partitioning..
When I look at the partitioning my my Fire running CM9 nightly's from Hashcode, I see its got 528mb for System ROM (281 free), 1.17Gb Internal (975 mb free) and 5.36Gb for the SDcard partition. I thought that layout was standard. That's more than 5Gb for the SDCard though, right ?
Adding that up I get only about 7Gb accounted for, so I am for sure missing something. Recovery partition for TWRP maybe ?
I got these numbers from Titanium Backup Pro, so maybe its not telling me stuff I don't need to know about.
You are saying you can increase the SDCard partition from 5.36Gb to 6Gb by reducing the size of the Internal partition ?
If so, would that limit the number and size of the programs you could install on your Fire, but give you more room for music and stuff ?
Thanks,
Glenn
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I'm running Jelly Bean and it says my internal is 1.09GB, and then my internal SD is 5GB. I'm getting that from the Settings page...
It wouldn't limits the number of programs, but you'd probably have to push them to the SD card for storage (some apps already do that though). But yeah, it'd give you more space for media too.
Are you using this Jelly build?
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Are you using this Jelly build?
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Yep.
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Yep.
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I tried it, briefly, and jumped ship because it didn't auto-rotate from landscape to portrait. I check the thread, also briefly, but didn't see anyone reporting the same. Am I missing something?
Code:
Model: MMC MMC08G (sd/mmc)
Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 7818MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 131kB 262kB 131kB xloader
2 262kB 524kB 262kB bootloader
3 524kB 525kB 512B
4 525kB 525kB 512B
5 525kB 16.9MB 16.4MB recovery
6 16.9MB 16.9MB 512B
7 16.9MB 25.1MB 8191kB boot
8 25.1MB 25.1MB 512B
9 25.1MB 537MB 512MB ext4 system
10 537MB 1561MB 1024MB ext4 userdata
11 1561MB 1817MB 256MB ext4 cache
12 1817MB 2841MB 1024MB fat32 media msftres
13 2841MB 7818MB 4977MB ext4 linux
Of course I have nearly 5gb dedicated to linux, but that space can be used for media.
/thread
What makes you think this is the best way? Not being difficult, just trying to understand the inner workings...
Hello everyone and thank you for having me on your wonderful forum. I have learned so much in such a short time by reading everything I could whether I was intending to use it or not.
I got my 16gb Nexus on Monday and immediately prepped it for ROMs, settling on CM10.1 RC2, Prior to that I had an Optimus V running CM7. On my Optimus, after flashing CM7 for the long haul I was able to move all excess /system space back into /data using terminal emulator and the fdisk command, but I followed a guide of some sort that is long lost now.
Everything is fantastic so far except one thing, there seems to be quite a lot of space reserved in the /system and /cache partitions, and I am not sure if I am able to re-partition this space back to /data or how exactly to do this.
right now /system is reading at 395.8 / 827.8 MB used, and /cache is at 68.4 / 551.7 MB. I would like to repartition 200 MB away from /system and 300-400 MB away from /cache, and put it back into /data. This will leave me some space to integrate or convert a few apps to system apps, and enough cache space to be safe (why does it need 550 MB to begin with?) and give back another half gig of storage that I paid so much to have.
I have three issues with this, one being that I can find almost no information on this topic directly mentioning the NExus 4, and any relatable information from other devices talking about device specific toolkits to do the job.
The only thread I found on XDA about this is below, and it only gave me a vague "this is not possible"
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2248400
The second issue is I do not recall the command switches/flags that go with the fdisk command, only that I had to use some things to set file permissions or remount the partition or some such (I know, i'm a noob, forgive me).
Lastly, I am rather confused by the multiple partitions of /data and /storage/emulated all showing a partition size of 13231.8 MB. Obviously they are all the same physical space, but I am afraid to mess with the partitions and break what I assume are a ton of symlinks that trick apps into believing there is an external SD card in play. Can any of you shed some light on this for me?
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Hello everyone and thank you for having me on your wonderful forum. I have learned so much in such a short time by reading everything I could whether I was intending to use it or not.
I got my 16gb Nexus on Monday and immediately prepped it for ROMs, settling on CM10.1 RC2, Prior to that I had an Optimus V running CM7. On my Optimus, after flashing CM7 for the long haul I was able to move all excess /system space back into /data using terminal emulator and the fdisk command, but I followed a guide of some sort that is long lost now.
Everything is fantastic so far except one thing, there seems to be quite a lot of space reserved in the /system and /cache partitions, and I am not sure if I am able to re-partition this space back to /data or how exactly to do this.
right now /system is reading at 395.8 / 827.8 MB used, and /cache is at 68.4 / 551.7 MB. I would like to repartition 200 MB away from /system and 300-400 MB away from /cache, and put it back into /data. This will leave me some space to integrate or convert a few apps to system apps, and enough cache space to be safe (why does it need 550 MB to begin with?) and give back another half gig of storage that I paid so much to have.
I have three issues with this, one being that I can find almost no information on this topic directly mentioning the NExus 4, and any relatable information from other devices talking about device specific toolkits to do the job.
The only thread I found on XDA about this is below, and it only gave me a vague "this is not possible"
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2248400
The second issue is I do not recall the command switches/flags that go with the fdisk command, only that I had to use some things to set file permissions or remount the partition or some such (I know, i'm a noob, forgive me).
Lastly, I am rather confused by the multiple partitions of /data and /storage/emulated all showing a partition size of 13231.8 MB. Obviously they are all the same physical space, but I am afraid to mess with the partitions and break what I assume are a ton of symlinks that trick apps into believing there is an external SD card in play. Can any of you shed some light on this for me?
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nexus4 doesn´t have a fix size for partitions, you can use the whole memory for everything... no need to re-partition anything
75markus said:
nexus4 doesn´t have a fix size for partitions, you can use the whole memory for everything... no need to re-partition anything
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I'm not sure if you are misunderstanding or not reading my whole post, or if I am not understanding you or the situation I am posting about, so please don't take offense to this reply.
It appears to me that the /system partition is reserving 827 MB space for the ROM, and CM10.1 is only using 400 MB of it
It also appears that 552 MB is reserved for the /cache partition, and only 70 MB is being currently used.
This is ~900 MB of storage space that is reserved and unused. I would like to know if it is possible to reallocate ~500-600 MB of this back into the /data partition for user space.
Please explain to me how this space is part of the whole memory that can be used for anything.
After posting I have thought some more about it and decided to NOT mess with the partition sizes, mainly because I do not know what effect it would have if I were to flash another ROM in the future, which is almost a given when Key Lime Pie is released. However I would still like to understand what I have asked about in case I do want to do this in the future, and also just for the sake of expanding my knowledge.
I like this. The only "issue" is that if more space were ever to be reallocated to /system or /cache, it'd require wiping /data obviously. Small price to pay. 500MB isn't too small a chunk for 8GB users.
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nexus4 doesn´t have a fix size for partitions, you can use the whole memory for everything... no need to re-partition anything
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Actually it does. System data cache and boot, plus like 30 other ones, same as any other phone with no micro SD card
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I3ig Al said:
I'm not sure if you are misunderstanding or not reading my whole post, or if I am not understanding you or the situation I am posting about, so please don't take offense to this reply.
It appears to me that the /system partition is reserving 827 MB space for the ROM, and CM10.1 is only using 400 MB of it
It also appears that 552 MB is reserved for the /cache partition, and only 70 MB is being currently used.
This is ~900 MB of storage space that is reserved and unused. I would like to know if it is possible to reallocate ~500-600 MB of this back into the /data partition for user space.
Please explain to me how this space is part of the whole memory that can be used for anything.
After posting I have thought some more about it and decided to NOT mess with the partition sizes, mainly because I do not know what effect it would have if I were to flash another ROM in the future, which is almost a given when Key Lime Pie is released. However I would still like to understand what I have asked about in case I do want to do this in the future, and also just for the sake of expanding my knowledge.
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i think N4 uses FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) file system
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isnt this what they were saying was the reason for no SD card and use of MTP ?; basically if i recall correctly the nexus devices do not truly assign partitions instead there is a storage 'pool' that anything can use dynamically.
so i guess there is no partitions its just all 1 volume.
source: http://www.androidcentral.com/why-nexus-devices-have-no-sd-card
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That is for the sdcard.
The other partitions such as /system still have fixed amounts of space allocated
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Anyone know how to fix this issue.
Build Number: LMY47X.G928PVPU2AOI6
Model Number: SM-G928P
/storage/emulated/0
/storage/emulated/legacy
They both contain the same files and are linked together. So if I erase something from one it is erased on the other. That's fine I understand they have the same files.
The issue is my phone is counting the space being used twice. Say I have 14 gb's of free space. Then I download a 2 gb file and I go from 14 gb to 10 gb free.
I also noticed that these 2 paths are linked and have the same files /storage/sdcard0 and /sdcard.
Now I've discovered that all 5 of these paths have the same files I have a Galaxy S6 so I only have internal memory.
/storage/emulated/0
/storage/emulated/legacy
/storage/sdcard0
/storage/sdcard
/mnt/sdcard
Please help it's bad enough I only have 25 gb of space to begin with. Having 12.5 is even worse.
/storage/emulated = 7 gb
/storage/emulated/0 = 3.5 gb
/storage/emulated/Legacy =3.5 gb
Shouldn't /storage/emulated = only say 3.5 gb?
I have space problem too.
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Download some random terminal from gplay and check with df what information will be showing
This is what I got.
I attached a screen shot of terminal screen
I also attached a screenshot of disk map using X-Plore App
Your device have different partitions from 928f. From what ive seen here, your internal memory is fine - check the line /0; /legacy and /data. You have 50% used space. Before year and more ive debugged Vibe s1 and there was the same situation, but with no problems with space, besides the mirrored/ linked partitions. Post pics from system storage in settings/ internal storage and scanned data partition in es file or so. There is no suck thing like "...2 gb file and I go from 14 gb to 10 gb free." Waiti g for your response.