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ext fomatted sd space in liberated Aria (eclair) doesn't show up in cyanogen 6.1.1

Hello everyone,
I recently got an HTC aria from AT&T.
After a few days I went ahead and rooted the phone.
At first I decided to try the liberated Aria (éclair) rom. It was a good experience. But just last night I decided to try another rom, so I went with Cyanogenmod 6.1.1.
While I was using liberated aria, I used rom manager to partition my sd card with the ext filesystem, so I could move some apps to it and open up some space from my phone's internal storage.
This space, while I never figured out how to move the apps, always showed in titanium backup.
With the move to Cyanogenmod 6.1.1, this partition doesn't show at all!, in fact my sd card is at 1.7 Gb!, it's like I lost an extra 0.25 Gb (which is the partition size I chose in rom manager before)... I tried partitioning in cyanogenmod with rom manager again, but then my sd card took another 0.25 Gb hit and went to 1.5 Gb!...
How do I get back to my 2Gb sdcard space? furthermore how I do partition the card such that I can extend my internal storage for apps?
Thanks
Andres

I use gparted on linux to do that. I'm not sure what OS you use, but there are live cds you could use.
But on gparted, you should be able to see all the partitions on the card and manage them as necessary.
In order to use the ext partition, you should darktremor's app2sd. Ext3 is the filesystem you should use, but ext2 works as well I believe.
Sent from my Aria - CM7 Build 2-4

thanks, I use Debian Squeeze on desktop and testing on laptop.
I just got gparted, but it says my external storage is only 1.7 Gb!
Like I said...the extra 0.25 Gb is no longer being mounted with the sdcard and it somewhere lost in the filesystem and/or apportioned to some obscure directory...

Hmmm... that is quite odd. I know some sd cards aren't actually what they state. My 8GB card only shows as 7.8GB for example.
Try formatting the whole card (Back up first!!) And see if it comes back somehow. I am not a sd card expert.
Sent from my Aria - CM7 Build 2-4

L551 said:
Try formatting the whole card (Back up first!!)
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thats what i'd recommend.
when you installed cm6, did you do a wipe data? did you notice if it said it was wiping the ext partition? i'd guess cm6 isn't noticing the space because it was partitioned separately from the rom install.
backup your important data, format the card, and try repartitioning it again now that you've got cm6 installed.

well I'm not entirely sure why it worked this time, but I was able to fully format the card. Now I'm back to 2Gb (well, really 1.84 Gb, but that's right)
The problem I think was that I was formatting with Rom manager, and it was ignoring the extra unrecognized space. What I did different this time, is that I went into settings > sd card & storage > unmount sd card > format sd card > mount sd card > sucess!
So this successfully formatted the whole card.
Thanks for your pointers

Unfortunately trying to partition it again failed.
I tried gparted and it successfully formatted a part of the card with the ext3 filesystem (while leaving the rest as unallocated -- at least this is what gparted said). Unfortunately when mounting the sd card on my phone it complained that the card had been damaged. So I had to reformat it, undoing the previous partitioning.
Then I tried rom manager again, but the way it works is by going into recovery and partitioning the card there. Unfortunately, clockworkmod recovery showed a warning sign ( triangle with an exclamation mark in it) above an android and froze there...I had to pull the battery out to reboot my phone.
I guess my oldish version of gparted (0.7.0) doesn't like the YAF filesystem (YAFFS). So perhaps when it partitions the card, it screws up the existing YAFFS partition. I'll try to use gparted again to partition the card fully, 256 Mb ext3 as extra app storage and the rest, I guess ext3 as well.
Andres

I finally did get it to work on both R012 and FR008 (as well as CM6.1.1 and CM7)
I formatted the sdcard with gparted (chose a 512 Mb ext3 partition with 32 Mb Swap). Then from android's terminal emulator (as root) I typed
Code:
a2sd check
and it enabled apps2sd using darktremor just fine. It became aware of my ext3 partition.

everytime i backup my rom it breaks my sd functionality

i dodged a bullet last night with reflashing my rom with many thanks to rytesyde for his help with that.
so i went to backup my rom this morning and i came across this.
----------------------------------------------------
no sd-ext found. skipping backup of sd-ext.
generating md5 sum...
backup complete
----------------------------------------------------
that happens all the time with any sd card
after that i reboot the phone and it goes into preparing sd card and then this happens
"The SD card has an unexpected problem. Tapping....."
i take the card out, format it reload my data back onto the card, and put it back in the phone everything is fine unless i try to backup again.
that is with a sandisk 16GB card
i have the 2GB card that came with the phone and that seems to work fine.
i can only guess its the card. but i havent had a single problem with the 16 gig card, ever.
so what i have done is backed the phone onto my 2 gig card, and use my 16 gig as i normally would.
any ideas, suggestions. fixes?

have you ever found out what the problem is with this? i have noticed that mine is not recognizing the sd-ext partition. i have formated my card with ubuntu, and even with amon-ra 1.7 on my G1. each time i try tou mount sd-ext, it says it's not found or some problem. i have even tried using the various varietis of clockwork for the Shift and even tried using clockwork on an original EVO. i have tried with the stovk 2gb as well as a class 2 8gb and a class 6 8gb.

BiffTirkle said:
i dodged a bullet last night with reflashing my rom with many thanks to rytesyde for his help with that.
so i went to backup my rom this morning and i came across this.
----------------------------------------------------
no sd-ext found. skipping backup of sd-ext.
generating md5 sum...
backup complete
----------------------------------------------------
that happens all the time with any sd card
after that i reboot the phone and it goes into preparing sd card and then this happens
"The SD card has an unexpected problem. Tapping....."
i take the card out, format it reload my data back onto the card, and put it back in the phone everything is fine unless i try to backup again.
that is with a sandisk 16GB card
i have the 2GB card that came with the phone and that seems to work fine.
i can only guess its the card. but i havent had a single problem with the 16 gig card, ever.
so what i have done is backed the phone onto my 2 gig card, and use my 16 gig as i normally would.
any ideas, suggestions. fixes?
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Your sdcard is partitioned or no
Sent from my HTC Knight using MikRom(again)

sd-ext is used for Apps2SD and this is not currently implemented on any ROMs for the Shift.
Not sure what the issues are with the OPs SD card but might want to buy a new one. I'm not sure the SD-ext is related

riggsandroid said:
sd-ext is used for Apps2SD and this is not currently implemented on any ROMs for the Shift.
Not sure what the issues are with the OPs SD card but might want to buy a new one. I'm not sure the SD-ext is related
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I think the recovery was just looking for a partitioned sdcard..ext4 is used by evervolv if I'm not wrong and if it isn't partitioned cwm will still check it..in short sdcard isn't broken
Sent from my HTC Knight using MikRom(again)

i still cant figure out why CWM wont recognize the sd-ext part of my card. i have the newest flavor thats wimax friendly. i have tried placing the partition before and after the fat32 part. still no go. i have reformatted the entire card to fat32 and then tried parting it in CWM. it coed through the process as if it's formatting it and when i go back in to check, it's not there, ot it again doesnt recognize it. i have tried every combination i could come up with and still no beans.
eventually there will be other supported roms for the shift that could/would use the ext4 part. right now i'm running the cm6.1.1 flavor because it's not SENSE and is a fraction of the size of that monster ROM. i can deal with not having MMS.
i'm just curious if anyone else is having problems getting their device to recognize the sd-ext
IE go to mounts in CWM and click on mount sd-ext. mount or no mount?
partition a card with CWM and see if it creates an sd-ext part and if so, does it recognize it afterwards.
i'm about to try this: re-format the entire card to fat 32 in ubuntu, then try to reformat to ext4 and fat32 in CWM. i no CWM wont recognize the sd-ext afterwards, but im going to see in ubuntu if CWM created the ext4 part.
brb

alright here is a play by play...
1. deleted ext4 and fat 32 in ubuntu
2. placed the card in my EVO (not shift for now) and entered fastboot then recovery (CMW)
3. > advanced > partition sd card
4. chose: ext size - 1024M then swap size - 0M
5. "patitioning sd card... please wait..."
6. "done!"
7. > ***go back***
8. > mounts and storage
9. > mount /sdcard - mounted
10. > unmount /sdcard - unmounted
11. > mount /sd-ext - message
"E:unknown volume for path [/sd-ext]"
"Error mounting /sd-ext!"
12. remove card and connect to ubuntu
13. open gparted
14. mounted as fat32-6.45GB and ext3-976.76MB ~~~just now noticed that CWM made the sd-ext as ext3!!~~~
15. unmount ext3 then formatted to ext4
16. close gparted and remount drive - fat32-6.45GB and ext4-976.76
17. unmount drive and place back in EVO
18. entered fastboot then recovery
19. > mounts and storage
20. > mount /sdcard - mounted
21. > unmount /sdcard - unmounted
22. > mount /sd-ext - message
"E:unknown volume for path [/sd-ext]"
"Error mounting /sd-ext!"
23. ~scratches head~

Ill play with it in a bit and see if I can figure something out..have you tried formatting it through cwm? And using cwm to setup the partitions
Sent from my HTC Knight using MikRom(again)

jsp254 said:
alright here is a play by play...
1. deleted ext4 and fat 32 in ubuntu
2. placed the card in my EVO (not shift for now) and entered fastboot then recovery (CMW)
3. > advanced > partition sd card
4. chose: ext size - 1024M then swap size - 0M
5. "patitioning sd card... please wait..."
6. "done!"
7. > ***go back***
8. > mounts and storage
9. > mount /sdcard - mounted
10. > unmount /sdcard - unmounted
11. > mount /sd-ext - message
"E:unknown volume for path [/sd-ext]"
"Error mounting /sd-ext!"
12. remove card and connect to ubuntu
13. open gparted
14. mounted as fat32-6.45GB and ext3-976.76MB ~~~just now noticed that CWM made the sd-ext as ext3!!~~~
15. unmount ext3 then formatted to ext4
16. close gparted and remount drive - fat32-6.45GB and ext4-976.76
17. unmount drive and place back in EVO
18. entered fastboot then recovery
19. > mounts and storage
20. > mount /sdcard - mounted
21. > unmount /sdcard - unmounted
22. > mount /sd-ext - message
"E:unknown volume for path [/sd-ext]"
"Error mounting /sd-ext!"
23. ~scratches head~
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Why are you partitioning the card with ext4? There is no apps2sd utilized for the Shift at this point.

CWM is parting the card as ext3. i used ubuntu to change that to ext4. CWM doesnt recognize the ext3 or 4. it created the ext3 and doesnt even recognize it. i'm wondering if it has something to do with an incompatability with the evo and evoshift's hardware and the CWM's software design. a quirk or two. i was under the assumption that the evo shift was basicly the same as the G2, Desire Z, and the (rumored?) Merge.

just realized you asked why... sorry. just because there isnt at this point, doesnt mean it could/would not be used later. i just noticed it wasnt working, so asked the question as to why. it seems as if it should work.

accessing ext partition within phone

Phone: mytouch 3g 1.2 rooted
OS: ginger yoshi 1 RC7
SD card partitioned using recovery menu.
Ok, I have a rather large sd card and my computers are all linux. So naturally i wanted a very large ext partition on my sd card and a small fat partition for compatibility when i'm on someone else's computer.
The problem i have is is that within the phone, nothing can see the contents of the ext partition, despite app2sd apparently working (using ginger yoshi rc7).
I would really rather store things like mp3s and such in ext format but the card only seems to want to expose the fat partition to any apps.
Does anyone know what i can do to fix this ?
also, ginger yoshi says it supports ext4 but it's mounting my ext4 upgraded partition (all done in recovery) as ext2. suggestions?

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hi all,
i just flashed my first phone yesterday. HTC HD2 with android 2.3.2 nand based.
Everything is working great except i can not mount my SD card. When i try to mount it, it says SD card is safe to remove !!!
maybe is some noob question but i can not seem to fix it.
I tried formating the card under windows in a pc but it didnt fix
thanks a lot

do you have anothre card to try and see if that one can be mounted? oh, make sure you are formating the card to FAT32 by the way. its easy to over look that when formatting cards.

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