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CyanogenMod and storage

Hello,
I install CyanogenMod 12.1 Today and i have only 16Gb for install app.
Can i have pit or edit for have a better storage partition ?
Thanks for help
Boki90

Resizing /System

Hi, I just wanted do know if there's a way I can change the size of the /system becuase it uses almost half of the phone's storage.

Apparently, only the I9500 can resize its partitions, and that can only be done through use of a PIT file. However, in my opinion it's not worth doing, and on all the Qualcomm devices, impossible to do.

Hi,
Just the addition. It's impossible to resize partition. But, the only thing to know: Samsung reserves 1/8 of total storage (2 from 16 GB ) for cache partition. It's unnecessary for most people because cache partition in most devices are 200-500 MBs.
I9500 devices that shipped in all regions and in China are different. You can't use full Chinese firmware in International devices and vice versa without a PIT file (International/Chinese). Installing Chinese PIT might reserve more space for user data (11.8 GB compared to 8.9 GB in International one), but it has several disadvantages.
First, is you can't install any custom ROM that is a block-build based installer (by patching system partition). It instantly fails because mount points of International PIT and Chinese PIT are completely different.
Second, if you do a full Chinese firmware install with ODIN on International devices and you don't remove sboot.bin from the archive and re-pack it, you'll end yourself with Chinese bootloader that pretty hard to be 'vanished' in standard way of installing firmware.
Sent from my ASUS_Z00AD

Storage issue or what? hidden sys files?

hi everyone,
So i have the 32 gb model and according to settings storage the system take 7 gb so that left me with ~25/24 gb in my internal right?
But looking at solid files property of my root internal storage, I see that I have 10 gb inside it including apps and apps data(~ 8gb of game data), and 12 gb elsewhere, but where exactly and what is there?

Do you use es file Explorer? If so it could be stuff that you have deleted, but es file Explorer moves it to the recycle bin until you permanently delete it. If not I'm not sure.
Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk

I dont use es file explorer

Partition Mapping (SM-S550TL)

Has anyone been able to map the partitions for this variant? How to read Samsung PIT files?
I have included the variant's PIT down below. Preferably, which block is for the System partition?

HitByAZinger said:
Has anyone been able to map the partitions for this variant? How to read Samsung PIT files?
I have included the variant's PIT down below. Preferably, which block is for the System partition?
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Have you looked at PIT magic?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32297786#post32297786

[j500nlte] Can you change PIT without data loss?

Can you re-partition J500FN without data loss and/or damaging eMMC? How to do it properly?
What I need to do:
- extend /data
- shrink /system and /hidden
What I tried:
- using REPIT (errors running from TWRP, nor /tmp)
- manually using parted tool (doesn't support ext4)
What I have:
- Odin
- PIT Magic
- official firmware J500FNXXS1BQG2
- PIT file extracted from firmware
- full eMMC backup as .img
Another idea - will it work?
- shrink backed up /system with resize2fs (this will work - tried on /hidden)
- modify PIT file with PIT Magic
- flash it all with ODIN
PIT Magic shows that PIT is in partition #29. This partition is not visible in parted, it's free space there. Any other way to modify it other than Odin?