Okay after many attempts and tries I've finally decided to ask for some help.
I originally partitioned my card with gparted. Everything seems to be fine but when I put my card into the phone it says that it's a wrong format and that I need to reformat. Anyone know how I can get past this? Or is there another easier way to partition the card?
don't know what gparted means... i'm assuming you're talking about goldcard, and if so, go into your recovery image (you said you have cyan's) and it has a format option in there...
btw, theres like 2 or 3 posts in this sub forum on the first page that answer your question... search a little bit better before you risk getting banned ><
Gparted is ubuntu's partition manager.
Your partitions should look like the following (mines a 8gb sdcard)
Linux swap (32mb)
Ext3 (500mb)
Fat32 (everything else)
ahh excuse my mistake... you may want to try a 40mb swap partition, i found that to be best without as much of a slow down
need help to make sure my card is partitioned properly.
I used the recovery image to do the partition, but im afraid i am not getting the linux swap portion, or maybe it isnt visible.
can anyone call me?
843.513.5707
-gary
Just searched for you... http://code.google.com/p/android-roms/wiki/Fat_Ext2_Partition
Right I never make threads I usually get all my info from other peoples threads but this one has me stumped.
I have been playing around with the different roms for android and decided to try one of the DATA2EXT ones and started making partitions on my 16gb card, I made a 1gb Ext3 partition and installed RAFDroid and somehow it managed to corrupt so I ended up reformatting it and now I am 1gb down on the sd card it has just dissapeared it does not even come up in the partition manager.
If anyone has any solutions I would be very grateful thanks.
Download the Gparted Live application. Burn it onto a CD. Boot your computer using the CD you created (Google for help if you need it). Delete the partition you made. Resize the existing FAT32 partition to occupy the full space available once you have deleted the ext partition.
Right okay, yeah I thought I might have to do that was just downloading it now thanks for the help
Yeah that sorted it, thanks again
I've done the same thing and Maximillion has sorted the issue
I have a netbook with no CD drive, is there another way round this?
this might help:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/liveusb.php
try "mini tool partition wizard home edition" worked very well with me
MiniTool
You can also use EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition..
That should do it
I Need more space for ubuntu webtop
but script has
drivefile=/data/ubuntu.disk
drivesize=1024
drivekb=1048576 # drivesize * 1024 fix
mountoshnew_md5="15d0615fe8e85af152d541e3ac10ecb5"
mountosh_md5="12deaf61043441bd9656b1d47d5ded61"
1G space,
How can i get more space for ubuntu?
i think get my sdcard space.!! but i can't move ubuntu my sdcard or internal sdcard.
need more space!.
It's something that sargoath is working on. Right now we only have access to two partitions which give us the limited space (since it's installed on the /media, formatted at 2GB). If you're saving files, I sugget using symbolic links to take some of the load off your Ubuntu disk.
Dude i know i really would like to be able to test out some of the bigger programs that require alot of space. But im currently happy being able to mess around with programs on the new 4.1.83 update after i manually went through the command script from the2dcour post. I basically tried to follow it to the best that i could understand it. let me know if you have questions.
Hi, I'm rocking the latest CM7 nightly, which doesn't support WebTop, so I have a 1GB+ partition just taking up space of my precious storage (which is very limited since I only have a 2GB SD card for now). I just read this article, could this be used to get rid of the webtop partition (and possibly shrink the /data as well)?
+1
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nm, was thinking erase and not deleting the partition.
CaelanT said:
nm, was thinking erase and not deleting the partition.
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Yeah, I saw it in the update email, lol
even deleting the partition, the memory of it won't be relocated to anywhere else, DONT DO THAT IF YOU ARENT A DEVELOPER WHO KNOWS WHAT IS DOING! =)
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You need to be able to edit the partition tables somehow, deleting the webtop partition and expanding the sdcard partition. Not sure how we can get a utility on the phone to do it. Id imagine it would be best to do it from a recovery so you wouldn't be using the internal storage partition while trying to do it. I don't think any simple and easy solution exists for this.
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I'm not a dev, but I'm quite knoelegable in general stuff (like partition maps, filesystems, etc) and a fast learner. That said, your right on that I probably shouldn't just go out and try it, and since I don't want to lose my little baby to a hardbrick, I was never planning on trying anything out. I posted the link to see if anyone had tried that method on an Atrix, or if someone knoelegable (or with a bunch of high end smartphones lying around) could try. I also must admit I haven't really read the thread & post linked in the article: I have a very busy week and this isn't something to do in a rush.
I'm also interested in this. I'll be following this thread to see if a solution comes up.
Silly suggestion: how about taking the card out and hooking it up with a proper PC. Copy the contents out of it to a temporary location. Then reformat the card to the full capacity and then re-copy all the items back in after. Reformat may have some issues if you are using Windows to try and rid of the EXT partition, but there are plenty of Partitioning programs out there that will kill it (including the native command prompt one called Diskpart).
bchliu said:
Silly suggestion: how about taking the card out and hooking it up with a proper PC. Copy the contents out of it to a temporary location. Then reformat the card to the full capacity and then re-copy all the items back in after. Reformat may have some issues if you are using Windows to try and rid of the EXT partition, but there are plenty of Partitioning programs out there that will kill it (including the native command prompt one called Diskpart).
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We are talking about the internal storage (which is not removable as far as I know), not the MicroSD card.
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We are talking about the internal storage (which is not removable as far as I know), not the MicroSD card.
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The OP: "Hi, I'm rocking the latest CM7 nightly, which doesn't support WebTop, so I have a 1GB+ partition just taking up space of my precious storage (which is very limited since I only have a 2GB SD card for now). I just read this article, could this be used to get rid of the webtop partition (and possibly shrink the /data as well)?"
Notice the SD card comment..
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The OP: "Hi, I'm rocking the latest CM7 nightly, which doesn't support WebTop, so I have a 1GB+ partition just taking up space of my precious storage (which is very limited since I only have a 2GB SD card for now). I just read this article, could this be used to get rid of the webtop partition (and possibly shrink the /data as well)?"
Notice the SD card comment..
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Yes, but the webtop partition is on internal storage (unless you are using webtop2sd).
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bchliu said:
The OP: "Hi, I'm rocking the latest CM7 nightly, which doesn't support WebTop, so I have a 1GB+ partition just taking up space of my precious storage (which is very limited since I only have a 2GB SD card for now). I just read this article, could this be used to get rid of the webtop partition (and possibly shrink the /data as well)?"
Notice the SD card comment..
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That was only to point out a possible reason for which I would want to do this, since I probably wouldn't care too much about 1GB of internal storage if I had a 32GB SD card.
U can format the partition by fastboot erase webtop command but other then that u cant use that space for other purposes and as far as i can tell there are certain number of partitions in atrix system (ever one is for some specific thing).
SO my suggestion is DO not completely delete the partition insted make it so small (as small as possible) and reallocate all of the free space to system partition (where user and preinstalled apps are installed. this way no natural order of flashing and backup will be disturbed and we will get extra space for applications and stuff.
Possible problems (unable to flash SBF through RSDlite) {Who flash thins via RDS now any ways ?}
if flashed rom with webtop (bluer bassed ROMs) then there is strong possibility that webtop partition so small unable to flash webtop causing aborted flasing process.
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U can format the partition by fastboot erase webtop command but other then that u cant use that space for other purposes and as far as i can tell there are certain number of partitions in atrix system (ever one is for some specific thing).
SO my suggestion is DO not completely delete the partition insted make it so small (as small as possible) and reallocate all of the free space to system partition (where user and preinstalled apps are installed. this way no natural order of flashing and backup will be disturbed and we will get extra space for applications and stuff.
Possible problems (unable to flash SBF through RSDlite) {Who flash thins via RDS now any ways ?}
if flashed rom with webtop (bluer bassed ROMs) then there is strong possibility that webtop partition so small unable to flash webtop causing aborted flasing process.
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True, I hadn't thought of that. CWM flashs could probably work fine, or be modified to do so, but sbf I don't know, and sbf is useful to recover from a softbrick (I had to do so once, I don't remember th exact circumstance thou).
Some dev who knoes what he is doing would have to check this and see if there is a possible workaround (like the one you gave).
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in soft brick u can access fastboot so no need to flash SBF just flash recover and from it mount storage as a mass storage on pc and copy rom and flash. i do it all the times.
last time i used rsd was to flash unlock bootloader sbf.
xateeq said:
in soft brick u can access fastboot so no need to flash SBF just flash recover and from it mount storage as a mass storage on pc and copy rom and flash. i do it all the times.
last time i used rsd was to flash unlock bootloader sbf.
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Yeah, I know, I don't remember what tje exact circumstance was, but maybe I just had the sbf laying around, it's irrelevant to the thread anyways (as is this post). I was just trying to point out that it's just better if we can keep the sbf fladhing capibility, even if it's only to be able to return it under warranty (althou I'm pretty sure you can also flash stock ROMs under CWM, granted someone made a zip out of it).
Maybe there is a way of tricking the phone into thinking the webtop partition is an sd card after it's re-formatted. Like formatting it into a fat32 partition and have some command to mount it.
i will never use webtop, its just some space useless to me =[
i have found a purfect solution to webtop extras space problem.
BUY A BIGGER CAPACITY MEMORY CARD
Every thing els dont have to change, give developers some time they will find some webtop replacement and we r gona love it.