Have fat32 and ext3 partitions on my SD card, both 4 GB in size. Want to resize them without losing data or having to reinstall anything, using Windows tools only (no Linux!).
If I
1. backup the ext3 partition to my PC hard drive using HDClone,
2. delete existing ext3 partition with MiniTool Partition Wizard,
3. enlarge existing fat32 partition into unallocated space with Partition Wizard,
4. create a new ext3 partition of desired size in the rest of unallocated space with
Partition Wizard,
5. restore the ext3 from backup to the new ext3 partition,
will that work?
hmmm, you have to try ans tell us,
afaik ,, there is no way without backing up data and reformatting .. atleast on WIN
i did a few times it works. but it may be a good idea to flash mgldr after you put sd into phone.
wuzzi said:
Have fat32 and ext3 partitions on my SD card, both 4 GB in size. Want to resize them without losing data or having to reinstall anything, using Windows tools only (no Linux!).
If I
1. backup the ext3 partition to my PC hard drive using HDClone,
2. delete existing ext3 partition with MiniTool Partition Wizard,
3. enlarge existing fat32 partition into unallocated space with Partition Wizard,
4. create a new ext3 partition of desired size in the rest of unallocated space with
Partition Wizard,
5. restore the ext3 from backup to the new ext3 partition,
will that work?
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They recommend backing up your data before resizing, it (may) corrupt the stored data
How would i do that:
-backup sd card files on pc.
-make a backup with cwm (also backups sd ext..)
-boot to recovery->advanced->partition sd card: choose your size.
-restore you files from pc to sd
-boot to cwm and restore backup.
Well, I performed the routine on a different sd card now. Created a small ext3 and restored my backups to the appropiate partitions. Said "no" when HDClone asked to "change partition sizes for best compatibility". Seems to have worked beautifully, everythings runs just like before.
Thanks everybody!
I have the same desire: i want to resize my ext partition without losing data.
Many threads have suggested the following:
- backup ext partition (for example though clockwork or in Linux)
- shrink fat partition, delete ext and create new larger ext
- restore backup
I'm sure this routine will work, but it seems rather inefficient.
Therefore my question is: can't i use Minitool Partition Wizard to shrink the fat partition and then enlarge the ext partition all through resizing (and all while the data)?
Can use minitool partition wizard home edition it's free for personal use you can create, resize ,delete any kind of partitions included ext3 and ext4
*Backup your data first
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saeid63t, i tried resizing with minitool PW.
While it can successfully resize fat32 partitions (and retain data) it cannot resize or merge ext3 partitions.
Fortunately Gparted can. I downloaded and burned the Gparted bootable live cd. Once booted I resized the ext3 partition while retaining all data of the ext3 partition.
The end result: i enlarger my ext-partition in 10 minutes without restoring or reinstalling any data from recovery and without formating or recreating partitions from scratch again. Gparted all the way for more efficiency!
Write data to ext3
wuzzi said:
Well, I performed the routine on a different sd card now. Created a small ext3 and restored my backups to the appropiate partitions. Said "no" when HDClone asked to "change partition sizes for best compatibility". Seems to have worked beautifully, everythings runs just like before.
Thanks everybody!
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How did you restore data(write data) to new ext3 partition ??
please help....
I couldn't get Mini-Partition or EaseUS to resize the EXT3 partition. I could easily create a larger one, but copying will put the EXT3 partition only into unallocated space, not integrate into an existing EXT3 partition. I even tried reducing the FAT32 partition on my smaller SD card to make room to resize the existing EXT3 partition and the same problem happened.
Does anyone know how to resize an EXT3 partition? You'd think this would be more widely asked about or addressed, given how people will move from smaller to larger SD cards. Yet... once you've got a 2Gb EXT3 partition, you never need to increase it (at least given the current Android ROM's). So, I just moved all of my apps back to the phone, installed the new SD card, then moved them back manually. Thankfully I'm just starting out and didn't have more than a dozen apps to move.
It seems we can use minitool pw to manage sd card partition directly, like resize partition, delete partition, extend partition and copy partititon.
Im aware that you actually can but can i do it without doing damage just using some of the unused space shrink it and use the unallocated space as a new partition?
Also will i be able to merge partitions when im done?
I use NexusHD2 JellyBean-CM10.1 V2.1 with 2GB Ext4 partition. This was running out of space so I thought I would increase it to 3GB. In MiniTool I resized my 30GB FAT32 partition to 20GB and then tried to resize the Ext4 partition. MiniTool would not let me resize Ext4 (don't know why). In the end I formatted 29GB FAT32 and 3GB Ext4, copied the ROM.zip back onto the SD card and re-installed via TWRP Extended. Well it sat there for absolutely ages so I pulled the battery. Resize to 2GB Ext4 and re-install no problem, resized to 3GB Ext4 and stuck again.
Is there an inherent problem with 3GB Ext4? Does anyone have an Ext4 partition sized other than 2GB (seems the common size)?
I am back at 2GB Ext4 until I can get some free-time (wasted all day yesterday doing it). I took the opportunity to resize my NAND with the following flash.cfg settings
Code:
misc ya 1M
recovery rrecov|ro|nospr 15M recovery.img
boot yboot|ro 5M
system ya 390M
cache ya 5M
userdata ya|asize|hr allsize
Darren .)
DarrenNewsgroup said:
I use NexusHD2 JellyBean-CM10.1 V2.1 with 2GB Ext4 partition. This was running out of space so I thought I would increase it to 3GB. In MiniTool I resized my 30GB FAT32 partition to 20GB and then tried to resize the Ext4 partition. MiniTool would not let me resize Ext4 (don't know why). In the end I formatted 29GB FAT32 and 3GB Ext4, copied the ROM.zip back onto the SD card and re-installed via TWRP Extended. Well it sat there for absolutely ages so I pulled the battery. Resize to 2GB Ext4 and re-install no problem, resized to 3GB Ext4 and stuck again.
Is there an inherent problem with 3GB Ext4? Does anyone have an Ext4 partition sized other than 2GB (seems the common size)?
I am back at 2GB Ext4 until I can get some free-time (wasted all day yesterday doing it). I took the opportunity to resize my NAND with the following flash.cfg settings
Code:
misc ya 1M
recovery rrecov|ro|nospr 15M recovery.img
boot yboot|ro 5M
system ya 390M
cache ya 5M
userdata ya|asize|hr allsize
Darren .)
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Don't worry - I set it to 4GB in TWRP and eveything is fine
Hi guys!
I have really particular question, which I have not found any answer to. I have my microSD card partitioned and I did backup of the system with CWM, but I have marked sd-ext option too. Now I have few questions:
1) So when I will format my microSD card and don't create new partition, then recover my earlier done backup of my system and sd-ext through CWM , will second partition (ext4) will also be recreated? or I should re-partition my microSD and then recover my sd-ext files through CMW?
2) When re-partition is needed, can I choose create ext2 and recover my sd-ext data which was on ext4? is it possible?
3) When I know that my backed up files on second partition was for example 4GB, and I still had 6GB free space (both give 10GB in total), can I shrink my newly created second partition to 8GB in total, and leaving 4 GB free space instead of 6GB before. Will it affect recovered through CWM files?
4) And lastly I would like to know when I copy microSD files to computer, files are only those from first FAT32 partition? When I wipe my microSD and copy these files back to microSD, I assume all my ext4 (second partition) files are lost? and then, all linked apps through link2sd will be broken (deleted?)? There is only one option to backup them and is it through CWM recovery with "sd-ext" option? or is there anything else?
Samsung Galaxy S4 data partition is only 9.7GB. instead, cache partition is 2GB. We don't need such big partition for cache. Therefore, my question is, can we resize cache partition smaller and move the space to Data partition? or can I install apk in Cache Partition?
Not really. Cache using ext4 partition format while data is fat32 in most cases.
But you can move it to SD card by making a special partition for that.
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