Hello,
Is there a possibility to change partitions size in Samsung Galaxy S? At this moment my /data partition has 1917.MB and /mnt/sdcard has 5918.5MB. I want to make /data smaller (for ex 600MB) and use this space for /mnt/sdcard. If anybody knows way of doing this, please help.
regards,
Boomz
Is that impossible?
don't think that's possible
Hi there,
Is there a way to make the add the internal SD card to the main memmory? So that there would not be an internal SD card anymore?
I do not mean swapping the moutpoints around so my External_SD becomes my primary and my internal my second....
I want to get rid of the internal one alltogether (adding it to main memory).
I figure that I'll have to format the storage in a certain way... would that do it?
Can someone tell me step by step what to do?
I do have CW-mod installed.
I did search the forum, but couldnt find anything conclusive. Just hints that it should be possible...
If there already is a thread where all this is explained, please point me to it, because I couldn't find it.
Thanks,
Pfeffa-rah
I don't think this is possible , never heard of someone who did it
I have no idea how to do that. My question is... why would you want to do that?
Having an internal_sd partition adds the benefit of having big app data (such as those in Gameloft games) sit in a very fast partition and still be called "sddata".
Also, it's mountable via PC so everything in there can still be backed up. So it's best of both worlds really.
This was discussed some time ago in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1013575
There were ideas on how to remount the cards at boot. I myself come to the conclusion that since more phones start to behave in this way, app developers will have to start dealing with it. It just sucks they are mostly slow on the uptake. My main problem was the Spotify cache location being hard coded so I resorted to hack the Spotify apk.
PS. salisbury_steak: What is it with people like you that every time someone has a question on how to do something, your immediate response is "But why would you want to do that?!".
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PS. salisbury_steak: What is it with people like you that every time someone has a question on how to do something, your immediate response is "But why would you want to do that?!".
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That was actually an honest question.
I wanted to understand why he wanted to do it. (i.e. What would be the advantages of it.) There was no supposed sarcasm in there.
how about the ability to install 5x more applications?
Having that stupid 5gb partition as sd card and the real sd card as a sub folder is retarded...
My 32GB class 10 cars is a lot faster than the internal one.
The internal 5gb memory is MUCH TOO SMALL!!! Most apps don't allow you to store data on the external card. If you like me and many others install some games that download aditional data + a nav app that downloads maps for europe + some streaming music app like wimp that can cache music for offline play then you are ****ed with LG's setup.
The setup CM7 uses solves the main problem but effectively wastes the 5gb by mounting it at emmc where like 0,0001% of apps are able to access it.
So adding those otherwise wasted 5gb to the main memory would be great. But i have not seen any solution to that yet :-(
Thank you Gensplejs for explaining that to them. I had no idea how to reply to that since it seemed so obvious to me.
This thread was ment to be a question about how to do it and not to discuss the usefullness of it. That is where I lost the way in other threads...
So, thanks for your replys all (realy).
But now, back On-Topic:
How would I do it?
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Please don't blame me if you tried it and you screwed up your phone.. It's your choice...
Well, I don't know if this would work, but this is how I would do it (accepting the fact that I'd loose almost 2GB of /data's free space):
1. Format your internal sd card to the same file system as your /data partition is (ext3 or ext4)
2. Copy every file from /data 1:1 to your sdcard (cp -R /data/* /sdcard)
3. I don't know when and where the partitions are mounted (maybe init.rc??)...anyways change the target there and let /data point to the internal sd card partition (so it is ensured that it is mounted automatically to the new location)
4. Reboot and keep your fingers crossed
I think i figured how to do it in theory. First we need some free space at our microsd to cp /data. Then we should repartition with fdisk /dev/block/mmcblk0p8 and p9 into one partition and change vold.fstab to mount only externalsd at /sdcard as we do when we swap partitions. In theory it should work but i cant test it right now or make a script since ve gone vacations and i dont have a pc to restore in case of error
I agree.. certain apps wont store to sdcard.. its better to use the whole 8gb as phone storage, and use external sdcard as default sdcard.
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What ive found till now is that sd swapping is easy. You can do it by tweaking only vold.fstab. But repatriationing is a pain in the ass. Looks like lg has "faulty" partitions or something and to do it you must mesh up with with almost half partitions.
I had to rebuilt boot lgdrm recovery data and sdcard to make em half work. So it probably isnt worth the trouble. Also I think init.rc is built on the boot. So just remounting internal sd to /data wont work either.
sectors is not space
it says 7996, so thats 8GB
i saw it in hurry. the brain sometimes belives whats he want to belive
sorry
New to XDA
Hello everybody,
I'm new to android and i'm trying to find out how to solve the problem posted in this thread.
I see you've got the awnser but i don't know how to do this.
I've been searching google and XDA for ever but i just can't find the awnser.
Could you make a step by step howto or point out to a post how to do this.
I mean converting your external sd to ext4 and change the mounting points.
I'm a complete nood, i didn't get adb to work on my pc, ext4 recovery is not for the p990 2x.
I've read something abbout changing fstap for swapping te mounting points for sdcard and emmc, witch is also ok for me, but formating to ext4... wel i frankly don't know how to do this.
I'm quite stuk on this.
The only partitioning experience i've got is Gparted in Ubuntu or repartitioning in Windows 7.
Thans in andvance!
Greetz,
JMG
http://android.modaco.com/topic/347...-partitions/page__gopid__1821791#entry1821791
check this
you can expand data partition , but there is a limitation of 1.75gb
Thanks davjan
Thanks davjan,
As far i can see it's indeed not worth it.
I wil have to go on and try to find out how to change the filesystem to ext4 and swap the internal and external sd.
That way i get more usable space instead of a big datastorage witch cannot contain program data.
But thanks for the quick reply.
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Thanks davjan,
As far i can see it's indeed not worth it.
I wil have to go on and try to find out how to change the filesystem to ext4 and swap the internal and external sd.
That way i get more usable space instead of a big datastorage witch cannot contain program data.
But thanks for the quick reply.
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what rom are you using? is your phone rooted?
swapping internal with internal sd is very easy
and most of the roms here on xda are ext4 , if you instal one of them they autoconvert to ext4
Jean Michel Gaar said:
Thanks davjan,
As far i can see it's indeed not worth it.
I wil have to go on and try to find out how to change the filesystem to ext4 and swap the internal and external sd.
That way i get more usable space instead of a big datastorage witch cannot contain program data.
But thanks for the quick reply.
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I you read the link provided you'll see that it makes what you want: grow internal filesystem = lower SDcard usable space. The only thing is that it doesn't seem possible is to use the whole space: system limitation. 75Markus tried high /system and /data values and phone didn't work.
See in his Mediafire Folder, 'Nvflash + guide for changing Partitions:
http://www.mediafire.com/75markus
Ext4 is now common with custom ROMs (in fact all of them).
You should search in sd-ext partition system, which was designed to artificially expand filesystem on older phones using an 'ext' partition. I didn't heard anybody using this on O2X.
If you use CyanogenMod based ROMs, your external card will be mounted ad /sdcard by default.
Switching internal and external SD
Thanks guy's,
I'll check it out.
I've been using cyanogenmod 7.1 stable with vorkkernel 20110208.
But that gave me batterydrains while using maps and nextvid ate the same time (while i'm driving).
Now i'm trying MIUI 1.11.11 with latest swift extreme.
But MIUI is very buggy so i'm thinking of going back to CM.
The only thing is that my phone won't boot with the latest vorkkernel.
Hi everyone
I'm wondering if there's a way to resize /data partition to, let's say, 500 MB because 2 GB is way too much for me and I'd like to the use the extra space on IntSD partition, because I'm running out of space on it.
Do you have any suggestions? I know it has been done on ZTE Blade by its developers via TPT method.
Cheers.
I believe this is called making a "custom mtd". Try Google to see if there is a guide for your phone.
Can someone expert here explain it to me what is the different between THIS ROM and THIS ONE right here.I am so confusing about this.And what about the partitions means?
Thank You..
Best Regards:good:
Eddicts said:
Can someone expert here explain it to me what is the different between THIS ROM and THIS ONE right here.I am so confusing about this.And what about the partitions means?
Thank You..
Best Regards:good:
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afaik
Unofficial ( this with orginal layout)
Have /system /cache & /datadata partitions on 460mb onenand chip, whats in overal meaning your /datadata partition cannot be bigger than 200-250 mb , cause of required space for /system
in offcial cm10 ther is modded partition layout which moves /system partition on the chip of /data which is much bigger..
so /datadata pratition can be hudge (~450mb ) at cost of some really unused speca of /data
And that's why i'm having some problem regarding my installed app on sd?When i moved my app on internal sd the icon show up as android robot icon.Is there a way to fix this..?
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And that's why i'm having some problem regarding my installed app on sd?When i moved my app on internal sd the icon show up as android robot icon.Is there a way to fix this..?
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Propably, because swiching partition layouts is quite invasible, and may corupt data. Thats why there was in istalation instructions to do a backup.
And then wipe (making clean instalation), nextly if this was titanium or sth like this you can easly restore it..
Now you can try rebot recovery > fix permissions (may work, may not)
Sec way not tested: download the .apk file of app you want to fix from anywhere, then using root explorer can be even es file explorer, then copy dowloaded app with correct name same as is currently on data partition, and now overite corupted one by this wat you dowloaded (more complicated but easy anyway, and amy work for you
Thanks man,But sorry..Me still noob here.Cant get the mean,Still don't understand why should it have the partition for this even tho the galaxy s got internal sd worth 13gb.Don't tell me that when i downloaded some app and it will install it in phone memory?and if the phone memory were less when i moved it to internal sd i will get these error?was it?
unofficial have 1.8G for data (apps), and no /datadata because if you have fast inand ship you dont need it
official have 1.4G /data (apps) and /datadata 460mb , this is good for old slow movinand ship
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unofficial have 1.8G for data (apps), and no /datadata because if you have fast inand ship you dont need it
official have 1.4G /data (apps) and /datadata 460mb , this is good for old slow movinand ship
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Thanks bro,But what is /datadata?what does it do..?what is inand?
Here i have attach the screenshot that shows error where some app that i have installed in internal sd got this error.See pic below please.How do i fix this..?:crying:
/datadata is placed on the fast onenand ship of sgs (because movinand is slow), so that makes your apps run smoother
however because inand is fast , there is no need for this partition, hense all the 1.8g is used for data (apps)
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Thanks bro,But what is /datadata?what does it do..?what is inand?
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/datatata partition is place wheres apps stores their data ( settings, game progres, sms's etc)
so if you are doing sth with system or partition layout, data can be corupted,
inand is kind of flash drive in sgs it is usualy 8gb chip and 512mb onenand chip
Hello everyone, as in my pic attached theses are my phones partitions, the main thing i am after is to reduce my system partition from 2gb to 500mb or 800mb and to expand my data partition by the amount to free up?(also can i reduce the cache partition too?).
the only thing i can find is this but i cant seem to even get the first step to work so i wanted to know if anyone knows of how to do this or can point me in the right direction?