can I just copy the cm7 os from my 2gb card to 8gb card and have it run on my NC then move the 4th partition so I can put more stuff on the card?
This is well covered in the main thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=989637
You'll want to burn the 2GB image to your 8GB, then use Easeus to extend the 4th partition and fix up one of the files to mount it correctly. All in the main thread, second or third page...
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Hey guys, currently i'm using a 1gb sd card with cyan rom installed to my htc dream phone.
If I want to change to a higher capacity sd card, how should i go about doing it? In terms of the applications and stuffs?
Do you have your sdcard partitioned in any way? if its only a fat32 formatted card, you can simply format the new one fat32 and copy all files from the old card to the new. If you have it partitioned, match the smaller partitions on the new card (match sizes of ext 2/3/3 and linux swap if you have one and copy files accordingly) and copy old fat32 stored files onto new one (the fat32 partition size difference should not effect anything). I've tried this myself a few months back upgrading from a 4gb class 4 to an 8gb class 6 and I had no issues. Just be sure both cards were partitioned with the same program if you are using linux [I run Ubuntu], otherwise you may run into admin permission problems
Mine is formatted in the way in this site: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Full_Update_Guide_-_G1/Dream/Magic32B_Firmware_to_CyanogenMod
So how should I go about doing it?
EDIT/UPDATE - Nevermind. I figured it out.
Finally upgraded to a 16GB SD Card for my N1 as I was simply running out of space (I like to store a lot of music on my phone).
What is the recommended swap partition size? I just read up on it and found that a 32/64MB swap file should be enough. That being said, when I tried to create a 14GB ext3 partition, I kept getting an error.
What can I do to maximize space on my card so I can put more than 4GB of music/pictures/data?
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I have Nookie Froyo installed on a 4GB uSDHC and picked up a faster 8GB uSDHC. I'd like to migrate my "stable" install to the 8GB so that I can use the 4GB for experimental stuff such as Honeycomb (at least until that becomes stable enough to take over as primary). I'm not sure exactly how to do this, though.
It seems like I should be able to put the 4GB card in my PC and pull a raw image using WinImager, then write that to the 8GB card and use a partitioning tool to stretch the last partition out to fill the space, but that only seems to image the boot partition, not everything.
Any help is greatly appreciated, both how to copy the image to another card and how to resize the partitions to take advantage of the additional storage after doing so (if necessary).
I looked for other threads on this topic but couldn't find anything clear enough to follow, but feel free to point me at existing documentation if it already exists.
Clone thread. See general. Maybe two weeks ago..
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Thanks, Sam. Okay, so I found the following thread that I assume is the one you mean:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=943164
I still don't quite follow, though. So when I insert the 4GB Froyo SD card into my computer I only see the ~117MB root partition even in utilities like Partition Master. I can instead use your utility to explicitly mount partitions 1-4 when the NC itself is connected to the PC, and I can use Win32DiskImager to read images of those partitions, but I'm not sure how to write those to my 8GB SD card.
Someone else mentions "packing your boot, system, data and sdcard partitions into a .img file", but I'm not sure how to do that. Is that as simple as catting all four files into a single image? Doesn't seem like that would preserve the partition information, though...
Do I just reformat the 8GB SD card, create partitions of the respective sizes in Partition Master, and then write the individual partition images?
Like I said...still confused here. Thanks in advance for any additional info!
For what it's worth, I was able to do this quite easily by purchasing a new SD card reader in which EASEUS Partition Master could see all partitions on my SD card, then using its "Copy Disk" wizard to copy the entire 4GB SD card to the 8GB SD card, and finally resizing the last partition to fill the card. Worked like a charm!
I am sure this has been covered before but I finally made a boot SD for CM7 and while it works pretty good I want to try a class 4 sandisk SD card to see if its any faster. My question is can I just copy everything from my card now to the new card and insert it in my Nook?
Raydee35 said:
I am sure this has been covered before but I finally made a boot SD for CM7 and while it works pretty good I want to try a class 4 sandisk SD card to see if its any faster. My question is can I just copy everything from my card now to the new card and insert it in my Nook?
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Not using windows explorer. But you can get the free program win32diskimager. It can read your card and write the image to your PC. Then you can write it to your new card.
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Hi,
I notice a lot of Rom images say will will work in a 4GB card.
Is there any problems using a larger card, like 8GB?
Thanks.
Everett1954
Yep. Use above method to put your image file on anything up to 32gig card; be sure you are using Sandisk brand, though. Small block read/write speed makes this the Nookers choice.
I just migrated from an 8gb to 16gb Sandisk card last night. I used win32diskimager to make an image of the 8gb card and then wrote that to the 16gb card. I then had to use a combination of Linux GParted and EASEUS partition manager to modify the partition sizes. I wanted to make more space available for apps instead of the 1GB (I upped it to 2GB), and expanded the CM7 partition to fill the remainder of the drive. I booted from the new card and everything seems to be working fine.
When formatting a new 32gb micro SD card to be used on the NC, what would be considered optimal, as far as file system and allocation unit size is concerned ?
Are you going to put cyanogenMod on the external memory card or just use it for storage? If you are just going to use the card for storage there is not a need to partition it.
If you are though you can use the program on windows OS called "WinImage" that will partition the card automaticly to the right partition size for your boot files. Check this link here on how its done. There is also included youtube links and other information in this thread too to get you started. http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/30462-cant-root-my-new-nook/
You can also do this on linux here. http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/30462-cant-root-my-new-nook/
Just Remember to select the whole Card in linux and not just the partition table when you get started.
If its all storage, then FAT32 and default allocation units.