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Excuse me, but I need to know if I install Windows 7 with the formatting, I lose the recovery partition for Vista? Thanks
It's the users choice whether to keep or erase the recovery partition...
(If you have done a format at any partioned disk before you should know how to...)
You see a disk with 34 something Gb capacity that is actually a 38Gb disk...
The good thing is that the recovery partition is NOT visible at the win7 instalation ...
After the instalation you should have about 30 Gb free.
I was playing around with the partitions on my card and messed it up a little. How can I merge my two partitions back into one? Windows shows my ext partition as 'unallocated' because I tried to format it in windows?.
Thanks,
With this (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/) installed in Windows you can read ext partitions in your SD...and format them...
Thanks, i'm going to try it out now!
EDIT: Could you please explain how to format using that software. I can change the partition format but it doesn't show up in windows disk utility as that file type still?
EDIT 2: It's all good now, I used Easus partition manger.
As the title is it possible to mount the image Clockwork (nandroid?) .img files make. I have tested with deamon tools without any luck. Would be really great if someone could help me with this, i want to llok for files inside it.
Try renaming it to .Zip and open the archive
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I was just wondering about the same thing, about how to mount the nandroid backup.
I have tried to rename the extension from .img to .zip, but Windows (winrar in my case) won't read the file.
Are there any other solutions on how to extract data from the backup under a Windows environment, or do I have to fire up a virtual linux machine to get my data?
They aren't archives, so WinZip/RAR isn't going to be able to handle them. You can mount them in Linux though.
Thanks for clarifying that for me. I'll do that then.
One last question: Are special tools required for mounting in linux? Or are there native support for the nandroid backup in linux?
It's all built in, Linux would be quite useless if it was unable to mount an EXT3/4 file system
I think the command (assuming EXT3 backup) is:
Code:
mount -t ext3 system.img /path/to/mount/folder -o loop
LOL, didn't realize that it was ext3/4. -I had an idea of that it was compressed to some special format.
Thanks again Rusty and thanks for the command.
are the images ext3 even though the system is yaffs2?
Just a thought, wouldn't it be possible (for us windows users) to mount the img files in android, then adb pull the files from the phone?
System isn't YAFFS on these, it's EXT3 or EXT4 if on MCR.
I have a problem. I have try to resize the partition using nvflash. I have use guide from modaco and also the preconfigured files. The problem is that /system is always at ~360mb (stock size). All other partitions are resized propertly.
Any help?
doctoralex said:
I have a problem. I have try to resize the partition using nvflash. I have use guide from modaco and also the preconfigured files. The problem is that /system is always at ~360mb (stock size). All other partitions are resized propertly.
Any help?
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I'm facing the same problem. I think I know what the problem is but I cannot solve it!
I currently have installed Stefan 28G ics rom (2nd edition) and my goal is to add about 100mb to the system partition, reducing internal /sdcard.
If I use fdisk command from adb shell I find out that the partion IS actually resized, but the file system on it isn't!!
So: partition now is 650Mb, but file system on it is 550Mb!
That's because nvflash simply makes a dd of the system.img (which has the old partition size) to the partition so in my opinion there are two solutions:
a) open system.img in a linux environment, add some stuff to reach 650Mb on it and repack it with the new size
b) backup system data, formata the partition (which is already resized) to get 650Mb file system and then restore your system data
I think that all "resizing guide" doesn't talk about this second step because in that case the system.img has always the right size.
Any ideas?
Raffaele80 said:
I'm facing the same problem. I think I know what the problem is but I cannot solve it!
I currently have installed Stefan 28G ics rom (2nd edition) and my goal is to add about 100mb to the system partition, reducing internal /sdcard.
If I use fdisk command from adb shell I find out that the partion IS actually resized, but the file system on it isn't!!
So: partition now is 650Mb, but file system on it is 550Mb!
That's because nvflash simply makes a dd of the system.img (which has the old partition size) to the partition so in my opinion there are two solutions:
a) open system.img in a linux environment, add some stuff to reach 650Mb on it and repack it with the new size
b) backup system data, formata the partition (which is already resized) to get 650Mb file system and then restore your system data
I think that all "resizing guide" doesn't talk about this second step because in that case the system.img has always the right size.
Any ideas?
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I solved my problem!
As explained before I have just added some stuff to the system.img file and then resized the file system:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=4096 count=35328 >> system.img
e2fsck -f system.img
resize2fs system.img
PS: bs and count depend on the partition size that you have set before in the .cfg file
Then NVFlashing again solve the problem!
doctoralex said:
I have a problem. I have try to resize the partition using nvflash. I have use guide from modaco and also the preconfigured files. The problem is that /system is always at ~360mb (stock size). All other partitions are resized propertly.
Any help?
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Backup your rom with cwm.
Format /system in cwm.
Restore your cwm backup.
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Hello Everyone....
I want to resize mt system partition via TWRP.
My "Storage & USB" option in device setting shows that 4 GB (approx.) is using by android os and twrp shows that only 1500 MB (approx.) is using by system.
I want to resize (decrease) my system partition to 2 GB so that i could utilize rest of the space in data partition..
A step by step procedure would be appreciated..