Okay, I am now thinking of partitioning my SD Card....
So a few questions:
1. What are ext4, SWAP and any other kind of partitions and the difference between them?
2. How do I partition and what should be the size of different partitions, how many partitions and each partition for what purpose?
3. After partitioning, what next so that all my apps go to partitioned SD Card, like adding a few App2SD Scripts?
4. What exactly are these App2SD and Data2SD Scripts and the difference between them?
[email protected] said:
Okay, I am now thinking of partitioning my SD Card....
So a few questions:
1. What are ext4, SWAP and any other kind of partitions and the difference between them?
2. How do I partition and what should be the size of different partitions, how many partitions and each partition for what purpose?
3. After partitioning, what next so that all my apps go to partitioned SD Card, like adding a few App2SD Scripts?
4. What exactly are these App2SD and Data2SD Scripts and the difference between them?
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See THIS
And also THIS
That was a good read....
But what is "Swap"?
I have no idea what that is....
And is there specifically any difference between ext3 and ext4?
[email protected] said:
That was a good read....
But what is "Swap"?
I have no idea what that is....
And is there specifically any difference between ext3 and ext4?
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AFAIK swap is a partition that makes it run as ram when its required.. In short for memory!!
And ext3 and ext4 are just linux partitions and ext4 is recommended. Google is always your friend!!
[email protected] said:
That was a good read....
But what is "Swap"?
I have no idea what that is....
And is there specifically any difference between ext3 and ext4?
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If you are getting some errors/bugs after partitioning, disable swap as it doesnt work for every1
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neo1691 said:
AFAIK swap is a partition that makes it run as ram when its required.. In short for memory!!
And ext3 and ext4 are just linux partitions and ext4 is recommended. Google is always your friend!!
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Thanks for all the info mate....
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I'm going to be running Cyanogen's 5.0.6 with Amon_RA's, I know that I can format my card through there with the newest version of the RA, my question is though what are the best partition size to create for a 16GB card class 6, I'm not sure what the swap size should be and what size ext partition should be I would like about 1GB for apps. Then which is the best to use, ext2 ext3 or ext4, I know this question has been answer on the mytouch and g1 millions of times just not sure if its the same thing on Nexus. I'm not sure what the advantages are over the different exts.
Use ext4. and swap is no longer required.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that Apps2SD on CM will only work with ext4 partitions...
craigacgomez said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that Apps2SD on CM will only work with ext4 partitions...
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You're correct. I'll update my post. Thanks
ok so if swap isn't needed anymore then what is the maximum size ext4 I can have before seeing a performance decrease or does it matter.
DynaBass139 said:
ok so if swap isn't needed anymore then what is the maximum size ext4 I can have before seeing a performance decrease or does it matter.
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Shouldn't matter
When I try to use A2SD commands I get "darktremor apps2sd may not have ran during boot cannot read a2sd.mountpoint"
Its saying my sd partition is not mounted, and no apps have moved to sd card
please help guys!
Have you partitioned your SD card correctly so that it works with a2sd?
Daz555 said:
Have you partitioned your SD card correctly so that it works with a2sd?
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I think so, I partitioned it Ext4. what else do I have to do?
Please list the exact partition config you have on your SD card. That way we'll hopefully be able to see the problem. Also please tell us which ROM you are using.
Daz555 said:
Please list the exact partition config you have on your SD card. That way we'll hopefully be able to see the problem. Also please tell us which ROM you are using.
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Ok I have an Ext4 745.20mb partition with 28mb used (I dont know what its used on)
Im using RCMix3D but I installed the A2SD script and I know its working because I can use A2SD Commands!
Repsys7 said:
Ok I have an Ext4 745.20mb partition with 28mb used (I dont know what its used on)!
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Sorry, you have an SD card with a single 745MB ext4 partition?
Can you post your exact SD card partition info - all partition sizes, file systems, and in what order they are partitioned.
Also, your ROM - have you asked this question in the relevant thread?
Daz555 said:
Sorry, you have an SD card with a single 745MB ext4 partition?
Can you post your exact SD card partition info - all partition sizes, file systems, and in what order they are partitioned.
Also, your ROM - have you asked this question in the relevant thread?
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Sorry what I meant was my first partition was 6.69gb and Fat32, Then I partitioned 750mb off as Ext4.
Data first and then A2SD partition second is usually the right way around but I am not familiar with your ROM. For example, does it support EXT4?
Might be worthing popping over to the thread for your ROM in the Development forum and asking around there.
Daz555 said:
Data first and then A2SD partition second is usually the right way around but I am not familiar with your ROM. For example, does it support EXT4?
Might be worthing popping over to the thread for your ROM in the Development forum and asking around there.
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Yeah I did data first, and yeah it does support EXT4.
The rom doesnt actually have A2SD in it, but I put it in myself so its probably no use asking in the rom thread.
I've tried everything, I've partitioned it on linux, gparted, minitool partion on windows, Clockwork recovery, none work.
Thanks for your help anyway!
Well I'm using RCMix3D on Desire HD and I installed darktremors A2SD script and I partitioned my SD card to 750mb named it "sd-ext" I've tried ext2/3/4 and none work.
When I use A2SD commands it just says like sd-ext not mounted and cant mount and stuff, I dunno what to do!
Thanks in advance!
Did you create the ext partition after the Fat32 partition?
Also I had better success using Gparted to do the partitioning.
UKseagull said:
Did you create the ext partition after the Fat32 partition?
Also I had better success using Gparted to do the partitioning.
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Yeah I used Gparted, what do you mean, I have the normal Fat32 partition then I partitioned abit off in ext2/3/4 if thats what you mean?
thanks all
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thanks all
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What you talking about?
Repsys7 said:
Yeah I used Gparted, what do you mean, I have the normal Fat32 partition then I partitioned abit off in ext2/3/4 if thats what you mean?
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He means that the layout should be like this:
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FAT32__________________EXTx
evilkorn said:
He means that the layout should be like this:
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FAT32__________________EXTx
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Yep its like that.
RcMix3D does not support a2sd:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14739358&postcount=10
MatDrOiD said:
RcMix3D does not support a2sd:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14739358&postcount=10
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Yeah but I added it myself.
hi
i also have an olive pad & in a discussion in that forum i found out that if we use CWM to do to ext it does only ext2 & not ext4(see below link)
link : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17028858&postcount=6
now my question is how to do we do EXT4part via CWM as i was told that we
need ext4 to be present on our SG3 for the apps2sd to work on the cooked roms
i do have the madteam apps apk can i use that
thanks in advance & sorry if this question was asked i could not find it
haree said:
hi
i also have an olive pad & in a discussion in that forum i found out that if we use CWM to do to ext it does only ext2 & not ext4(see below link)
link : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17028858&postcount=6
now my question is how to do we do EXT4part via CWM as i was told that we
need ext4 to be present on our SG3 for the apps2sd to work on the cooked roms
i do have the madteam apps apk can i use that
thanks in advance & sorry if this question was asked i could not find it
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partition ur sd to ext2 .. then convert it to ext4..
simple..!!
ranadip.bswas said:
partition ur sd to ext2 .. then convert it to ext4..
simple..!!
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Yest. Partition in ext2 using cwm and convert to ext4 with minitool or gparted
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ranadip.bswas said:
partition ur sd to ext2 .. then convert it to ext4..
simple..!!
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ale_bot said:
Yest. Partition in ext2 using cwm and convert to ext4 with minitool or gparted
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hi
thanks guys let me explain a little more on why this confusion
i also have a HTC tattoo on which i also have CWM
on the tattoo i have the option of converting ext2 to ext4 ie on the system CWM
we dont have the same and im not confy with the above mentioned tools. so will Madteam apps work for me
and again another reason for this confusion is that recently i have been having alot of problems with the cooked roms not working well and i feel maybe this is because of me having ext2 & the cooked roms need ext4.Do correct me if im wrong here
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Yest. Partition in ext2 using cwm and convert to ext4 with minitool or gparted
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umm.. if u really want to use minitool or gparted.. then y takin so much pain to use cwm to partition.. partition ur sd directly to ext4..
FuguMod and G3MOD kernels are capable of converting file systems of sd-ext partition too
add this line to fs.convert and making the partition through cwm(and btw i think it makes ext3 partitions)
anyways here's the line
Code:
mmcblk0p2 ext4
hope it helps
cdesai said:
FuguMod and G3MOD kernels are capable of converting file systems of sd-ext partition too
add this line to fs.convert and making the partition through cwm(and btw i think it makes ext3 partitions)
anyways here's the line
Code:
mmcblk0p2 ext4
hope it helps
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hi
simple question. now i have used the CWM and have done
the extpart 1024 swap0
is this enough to use our cooked roms or do i need to convert it to ext4
why is because off late im having some heavy problems using the cooked roms
im trying to find out why,Because all these days i have not had any problems
haree said:
hi
simple question. now i have used the CWM and have done
the extpart 1024 swap0
is this enough to use our cooked roms or do i need to convert it to ext4
why is because off late im having some heavy problems using the cooked roms
im trying to find out why,Because all these days i have not had any problems
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IF you made a partiton,convert it to ext4-helps a lot (in other ways too because ext4 is far more better than ext2)
the partiton isnt needed for any cooked rom
it is just an addon so we can get more space for apps
If you can specify what kind of problems you are having and on which rom then i can help more
I don't exactly know how to create it. I already have an EXT3 partition that I created with CWM recovery. Can I convert that to EXT4 somehow or do I do something else? If I can convert it, please tell me how. Thanks in advance!
meonline1 said:
I don't exactly know how to create it. I already have an EXT3 partition that I created with CWM recovery. Can I convert that to EXT4 somehow or do I do something else? If I can convert it, please tell me how. Thanks in advance!
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Cwm will only create in ext 3 format for ext 4 use an sd card partitioner on your pc ..... I have 2vb partition made with Cwm AMD it works beautifully for all roms.... May I ask why you need ext4 partition
rawdaddymagraden said:
I have 2vb partition made with Cwm AMD it works beautifully for all roms....
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Thanks for the response, but what exactly is that? Can I use a flashable zip to convert ext3 to ext4 instead? If so, can I have the link to the flashable zip? I need ext4 because of Sense 3.5 ROMs.... they give better performance.
meonline1 said:
Thanks for the response, but what exactly is that? Can I use a flashable zip to convert ext3 to ext4 instead? If so, can I have the link to the flashable zip? I need ext4 because of Sense 3.5 ROMs.... they give better performance.
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It's not a zip I meant take it sd card put it in your computer and use a program to partition sd cards to do ext4 because you can only do ext 3 on your phone through Cwm not ext4
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rawdaddymagraden said:
It's not a zip I meant take it sd card put it in your computer and use a program to partition sd cards
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Which program should I use? I don't think Minitool does it and I couldn't find "2vb partition CWM AMD". Are there any others?
meonline1 said:
Which program should I use? I don't think Minitool does it and I couldn't find "2vb partition CWM AMD". Are there any others?
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Here put your sd card in your computer and try this.... It is what I used to make ext4
http://download.cnet.com/EaseUS-Partition-Master-Home-Edition/3000-2248_4-10863346.html
http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
Free Partition Software - MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 7.5
it has ext4 also