Just got my Nook Color tonight. I booted it from a CWM microSD card, installed CM 7.1 stable, gapps, and ran ROM Manager to install CWM to internal memory.
When I go to Menu, Settings, Storage, under the 'Internal Storage' heading, it says "Total space" of 5.09 GB and "Available space" of 4.68 GB. (One app installed so far)
Looking farther down the screen, it shows /mnt/eemc to have 1.00 GB of space.
Is there a way to combine them so that I have 5.68 GB of usable internal space to install apps to? Also, are those two the full available capacity of the eMMC storage? If not, can it be enlarged to maximum?
Also, further down the screen, it shows /mnt/usbdisk, with no space. Should it be left intact, or can it be safely removed to limit my confusion?
Thanks!
+1 to your question.
I'm gonna use my NC only as a tablet not any book reading so I don't think that 1GB is required.
Still let's wait for a dev. to give expert advice about this and possibly a how-to...
I would leave /mnt/usbdisk alone as it will be useful if you decide to use flash drives through nook tweeks in the usb section. As for the emmc data area, you can store data there with no problem if you are not going to use the nook as an e-reader.
By downloading the nook tweeks app, you will have access to the micro usb port (through an adapter) to transfer data between the nook and a flash drive or (using a powered hub) a card reader. You can also transfer data between the nook and a camera to directly save photos to the nook or view them. Usb host mode opens the nook up to another level and makes it a very functional tablet.
I use my nook with a digital camera on photo shoots so that I can preview my shots on a larger screen than that of the camera. You can check out my threads here concerning host mode. PM me if I can be of any assistance.
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SweetBearCub said:
Just got my Nook Color tonight. I booted it from a CWM microSD card, installed CM 7.1 stable, gapps, and ran ROM Manager to install CWM to internal memory.
When I go to Menu, Settings, Storage, under the 'Internal Storage' heading, it says "Total space" of 5.09 GB and "Available space" of 4.68 GB. (One app installed so far)
Looking farther down the screen, it shows /mnt/eemc to have 1.00 GB of space.
Is there a way to combine them so that I have 5.68 GB of usable internal space to install apps to? Also, are those two the full available capacity of the eMMC storage? If not, can it be enlarged to maximum?
Also, further down the screen, it shows /mnt/usbdisk, with no space. Should it be left intact, or can it be safely removed to limit my confusion?
Thanks!
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Hey there, I know long time but iI have some info to share since I'm having the same configuration as yours.
The 'Internal Storage' you're seeing isn't exactly the emmc. Its just that cm7 doesn't know its put on an SD. And it thinks the second or third partition of the SD (i.e. cm7 system partition) is internal.
Also that /mnt/eemc is the actual internal memory and thus these 2 can't be linked. However, the nook has another 5gb emmc internal partition callednmedia which you can possibly combine with emmc.
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there are many threads about the NC partition layout and changing it. do a search. the 5g partition basically won't be used by your cm7 NC. the apps will go on the 1g. I repartitioned mine for 4g instead of 1g and 2g for /emmc. then you can set cm7 to swap the /emmc and /sdcard and then use the NC without an SD installed.
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there are many threads about the NC partition layout and changing it. do a search. the 5g partition basically won't be used by your cm7 NC. the apps will go on the 1g. I repartitioned mine for 4g instead of 1g and 2g for /emmc. then you can set cm7 to swap the /emmc and /sdcard and then use the NC without an SD installed.
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I was thinking something else.....
I wanted to merge internal data and media so as to get combined partition. I'm running CM7 off the SD card so I don't need to switch them. I was just thinking of merging them.
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therkr said:
I was thinking something else.....
I wanted to merge internal data and media so as to get combined partition.
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Yes, I understand that's what you want to do. However, those partitions are not contiguous space. Search on Nook Color partitions and you will quickly see why.
Specifically, look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094371
which links to here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13971291&postcount=110
/dev/block/mmcblk0p6 is the "data" partition
/dev/block/mmcblk0p7 is the "cache" partition
/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 is the "/mnt/emmc" partition
You are wanting to combine "data" and "/mnt/emmc". Problem is the "cache" partition is stuck in between them.
The other problem is your NC uses these two partitions for different things.
I think the suggestion I made before, which is to repartition for 2GB+4GB as in the first link, then do Settings -> CyanogenMod Settings -> Application -> Use internal storage to get them to swap, is the best, simplest solution with the lowest risk. This uses the 2G partition for whatever normally is used for /sdcard by most apps (downloads, misc. files, temp storage, etc.) and 4G partition for your apps, and leaves your whole SD card for use solely for your side-loaded media content. This schema will not interfere with further CM updates or unnecessarily change the default partition scheme for which most of the devs are writing code.
If you want to become a Linux & Android master of partitioning and storage management, then you can probably implement a more custom scheme. In my last job I was a software engineer working on a Linux-based network-attached storage appliance and I wrote most of the system code dealing with disk and partition management, so you could say I know a lot about it, but still I chose the easy path for my NC.
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If you want to become a Linux & Android master of partitioning and storage management, then you can probably implement a more custom scheme. In my last job I was a software engineer working on a Linux-based network-attached storage appliance and I wrote most of the system code dealing with disk and partition management, so you could say I know a lot about it, but still I chose the easy path for my NC.
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Thanks for the info. But I'm just a highschool sophomore who loves technology. Can't do this unless someone has ever tried (and succeeded) before.
I'll probably use your method when I install CM7 (or CM9) onto emmc.
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CM7 can make you install apps on the sd card, how does it differ from app2sd or app2ext? i have been trying to decide if i should partition my new sd card or its not necessary. There must be an advantage to have app2ext right?
Thank you.
CM7 basically allows you to move all applications using Froyo's app2sd mode. Even ones that have disabled it (like live wallpapers and widgets as those won't work when installed that way).
app2sdext works differently as it will install apps directly to an ext partition on your sdcard (that you manually have to set up). This functionality is NOT build into CyanogenMod, but is easily added with a number of different apps/scripts. This will give you a lot more free space on your phone, and all apps can be installed there regardless of whether they have widgets or have services running. Most app2sdext options will also give you the option of moving the dalvik cache to the sdcard which will save you a substantial amount of space on your internal memory.
Basically, if you want a lot of memory intensive apps, your only decent option with a Nexus One is an app2sdext solution. (I have it with a 1GB partition, and I will soon either need to resize it or delete apps... adding app2sdext was the second best thing I ever did to my phone behind installing CyanogenMod on it.)
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CM7 basically allows you to move all applications using Froyo's app2sd mode. Even ones that have disabled it (like live wallpapers and widgets as those won't work when installed that way).
app2sdext works differently as it will install apps directly to an ext partition on your sdcard (that you manually have to set up). This functionality is NOT build into CyanogenMod, but is easily added with a number of different apps/scripts. This will give you a lot more free space on your phone, and all apps can be installed there regardless of whether they have widgets or have services running. Most app2sdext options will also give you the option of moving the dalvik cache to the sdcard which will save you a substantial amount of space on your internal memory.
Basically, if you want a lot of memory intensive apps, your only decent option with a Nexus One is an app2sdext solution. (I have it with a 1GB partition, and I will soon either need to resize it or delete apps... adding app2sdext was the second best thing I ever did to my phone behind installing CyanogenMod on it.)
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why didnt i think of that? thank you for your reply... now i should decide whether to do it now or wait till i have reached maybe about a hundred apps. by the way does it have any effect on the speed of the phone if you do that?
I am on cm7 and decided to put cache apps on sd card using ta utility is there any other new apps like that? ta
Can you do this with rooted stock?
lolobabes said:
why didnt i think of that? thank you for your reply... now i should decide whether to do it now or wait till i have reached maybe about a hundred apps. by the way does it have any effect on the speed of the phone if you do that?
I am on cm7 and decided to put cache apps on sd card using ta utility is there any other new apps like that? ta
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I have a class 4 32GB card, and I didn't notice any appreciable difference in speed. I have moved my apps and dalvik cache to the sdcard using DarkTremor's a2sd. I currently have 260 apps installed on my phone, and that is pushing the internal phone space and the 1GB partition I set up for ext. I am about to bug danger-rat for his instructions on how he resized his internal partitions to give the data residing on the phone more space (I will basically shrink the cache partition and I am looking at resizing my ext partition to 1.5GB or 2GB.
I couldn't live without this anymore. I don't know how I went so long without it. It is so nice to just browse the online market and click install on countless apps without worrying about your space.
If you want to try and move the app data (resides in /data/data) to the sdcard, I have heard that it is recommended to have a class 10 card to keep up with speed requirements. I am not sure how many apps support that.
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Can you do this with rooted stock?
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I believe you can. You would have to have a custom recovery. The main thing I am not sure is if it will mount the ext partition. If you have a custom recovery, do a nandroid backup (just in case it doesn't work), flash the zip for DarkTremor, and reboot the phone (the first boot will take longer).
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Can you do this with rooted stock?
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yes you can.
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I have a class 4 32GB card, and I didn't notice any appreciable difference in speed. I have moved my apps and dalvik cache to the sdcard using DarkTremor's a2sd. I currently have 260 apps installed on my phone, and that is pushing the internal phone space and the 1GB partition I set up for ext. I am about to bug danger-rat for his instructions on how he resized his internal partitions to give the data residing on the phone more space (I will basically shrink the cache partition and I am looking at resizing my ext partition to 1.5GB or 2GB.
I couldn't live without this anymore. I don't know how I went so long without it. It is so nice to just browse the online market and click install on countless apps without worrying about your space.
If you want to try and move the app data (resides in /data/data) to the sdcard, I have heard that it is recommended to have a class 10 card to keep up with speed requirements. I am not sure how many apps support that.
I believe you can. You would have to have a custom recovery. The main thing I am not sure is if it will mount the ext partition. If you have a custom recovery, do a nandroid backup (just in case it doesn't work), flash the zip for DarkTremor, and reboot the phone (the first boot will take longer).
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thanks for the reply i think i read on darktremors post class 4 will do for the data2sd. I have class 4 16GB sd card would 1GB good for the ext? ty
It really depends on how much you think you will be installing. I did a 1GB partition on mine, but now that I install most of the Amazon free daily apps, that space is dwindling quickly. I have programs that will resize the partition for me, but most will have to wipe the card and partition it manually. I do have the install location set to automatic, so it allows developers to specify whether they want it in the "internal" (really it is on the sdext partition, but to the phone it is internal) or external using the froyo method. The Angry Bird apps all default to install on the sdcard, so my installed app base is even larger than 1GB.
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... adding app2sdext was the second best thing I ever did to my phone behind installing CyanogenMod on it.)
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I second this
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is it true that cwm sets the partition to ext3 by default? unlike in ra recovery where you still need to convert it? ta
I have heard that it creates it in ext3, but right now, DTa2sd is showing that it is a ext2 partition. I can't figure out how to find out for sure while the card is in the phone. Either way, it is getting mounted as an ext2 partition.
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I thought CWM will create ext3 by default? Your steps are ok, np.
Anyway when u read the ext partition type in android, most likely u will see ext2 if u are using official DT script cuz of the auto syntax it uses.
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then it maybe so, this was posted on the darktremor thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14134665#post14134665
Well, whether or not it is formatted as an ext3 partition, Android is still mounting mine as an ext2 partition.
Code:
mount | grep ext
NOTE: the "|" is called a pipe. On the keyboard it is the shift option on the backslash key "\". I don't know exactly where it is on the stock keyboard, but on swype it is located under the "D" key when the keyboard has the shift key pressed and you access it by longpressing.
To get your sdcard to ext3, you just need to turn on journaling. You can do this through adb while in the recovery (because you need the partition unmounted to do this).
Code:
adb reboot recovery
adb shell
mount system
e2fsk /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
tune2fs -j /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
reboot
Supposedly Android should auto-mount this as ext3 on boot (which you can check with the first command). At that point, I don't think it will matter what a2sd shows. As the writing of the journal (the big thing with ext3, since it helps minimize write errors on a bad shutdown) is done at the OS level, not the a2sd level.
I am using an 8GB sd card to boot into CM7. I have checked the partitions and there is the "boot" partition which is really small, then a 1GB Nook Color partition, and a 5GB CM7 Partition.
I am not too concerned about moving partition sizes and such, I know there is some wasted space in there but I just want it to be stable rather than nit picking for space etc.
The problem is that when I am installing Android apps it comes up and tells me I am out of space. This doesn't make sense because both partitions are huge and I only have 1-2 apps installed and TONS of free space.
How can I get it to realize there is a ton of room?
Most android settings refer to saving "on the phone" or "on the SD" and I am not really sure which partition the OS thinks is "the phone".
MuGGzyx said:
I am using an 8GB sd card to boot into CM7. I have checked the partitions and there is the "boot" partition which is really small, then a 1GB Nook Color partition, and a 5GB CM7 Partition.
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If you used the SASD images by verygreen, then you need to check again... If that's all you see you need to set it up again... there should be 4 total partitions after running the SASD scripts
Ok so I did use verygreens image and created the little 116mb partition. I am reading some other threads that suggest resizing that before booting the Nook.
Is this first partition what the system later thinks is "the phone" for the purposes of installing apps?
If not, which partition does the SD booted Android system think the system drive is for the purposes of installing apps?
I've recently hit the limit of my data partition and had to start uninstalling apps, but looking around at other discussions of the filesystem in Honeycomb, I'm seeing that this shouldn't be the case. From what I've seen, apps and media should be in one large partition, not separated the way the Streak 7 seems to be. Did Dell mess with the normal HC 3.2 setup so they could maintain the partitions set up when the streak ran Froyo? (I'm curious because my Streak 7 had HC from the start, so preserving the Froyo partitioning makes even less sense than usual.)
Ultimately, what I'd like to find out is if it's possible to repartition the Data and user storage to be more like the partitions on other HC tablets like the Streak 10.
Otherwise is it possible to expand the app space by using a partition on the external SD Card formatted to ext2, ext3, or ext4?
I've looked through the threads and not found an answer, the only other thread on expanding data partition seems to have trailed off into a 'you should never have more that 2 gb of apps' rant. Which would be nice, but it seems that app developers, particularly game app developers are making ever larger apps, and some are choosing to load the whole thing into data, likely assuming that in HC or ICS the data partition would be larger, and that GB users can just use app2sd. However it seems that with the streak 7, I've got the worst of both worlds, the giant app sizes meant for a system where app storage and media storage are shared, and the limited app storage of the old Froyo system.
I'd like to learn about this too. I use DTa2SD on my HTC Evo and having it on the Streak7 would be nice.
I'm showing 1.1GB used with 858MB free on Internal. I've got a 16GB microSD card that has 12GBs free. I'd like to move many of those apps to the SD. As an experiment I tried an a2sd app to see what would happen and nothing did of course.
I've ended up partitioning my SD card to have a 10gb fat32 partition for my media files, and a 4gb ext3 partition that I'm using with link2sd from the market to move over some of the larger apps. (Anomaly Warzone HD from the Humble Android Bundle is a whopping 153.48mb apk. Amazon's market has some other big ones.) Oddly while the apps work, and I see the internal storage space opening up, it keeps telling me I have 100% open space on the ext3 partition in the link2sd app. dunno what's up with that, though it does report correctly how much filespace is being used, just not how much is free... weird.
Keep in mind the S7 was sold with 2.2 preinstalled, which doesnt (at least by default) support 'dual' sdcards. (I dont actually know how it worked out in 2.2 on the S7 though, as I've never had a S7 with 2.2 installed)
It was originally partitioned with sdcard and data as seperate partitions. The reason it skipped 3.0 and 3.1 was because the S7 would have to drop sdcard2 support.
3.x also does not support moving apps to sd as devices that shipped with 3.x had a large nand that symlinked /data/media to /sdcard (ie sdcard is basically a shortcut to /data/media and moving to sdcard basically just moved it to a different folder on the same partition)
There's only 3/4 devices released in total that could even install 3.x and didnt ship 3.x, at the time the S7 did it in a reasonable way. (Official 3.x I mean, having unofficial ports dont count)
The ICS beta fixes this by turning the sdcard partition into the data partition (as it's the larger of the 2), but ICS is still beta. I believe ICS also brings back official apps2sd support, as phones definitely would want that (and no reason to turn it off on tabs if they support it)
tl;dr: no real solution without messing with the partitions/filesystem yourself as you've already done.
TheManii said:
Keep in mind the S7 was sold with 2.2 preinstalled, which doesnt (at least by default) support 'dual' sdcards. (I dont actually know how it worked out in 2.2 on the S7 though, as I've never had a S7 with 2.2 installed)
It was originally partitioned with sdcard and data as seperate partitions. The reason it skipped 3.0 and 3.1 was because the S7 would have to drop sdcard2 support.
3.x also does not support moving apps to sd as devices that shipped with 3.x had a large nand that symlinked /data/media to /sdcard (ie sdcard is basically a shortcut to /data/media and moving to sdcard basically just moved it to a different folder on the same partition)
There's only 3/4 devices released in total that could even install 3.x and didnt ship 3.x, at the time the S7 did it in a reasonable way. (Official 3.x I mean, having unofficial ports dont count)
The ICS beta fixes this by turning the sdcard partition into the data partition (as it's the larger of the 2), but ICS is still beta. I believe ICS also brings back official apps2sd support, as phones definitely would want that (and no reason to turn it off on tabs if they support it)
tl;dr: no real solution without messing with the partitions/filesystem yourself as you've already done.
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That's pretty much what I'd found. What I was thinking to do was find out if repartitioning the internal memory and creating the symlink myself might be possible, though it's a lower priority for me now that the Link2SD seems to be working for my apps. I'll likely switch to ICS once the camera is working.
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I've ended up partitioning my SD card to have a 10gb fat32 partition for my media files, and a 4gb ext3 partition that I'm using with link2sd from the market to move over some of the larger apps. (Anomaly Warzone HD from the Humble Android Bundle is a whopping 153.48mb apk. Amazon's market has some other big ones.) Oddly while the apps work, and I see the internal storage space opening up, it keeps telling me I have 100% open space on the ext3 partition in the link2sd app. dunno what's up with that, though it does report correctly how much filespace is being used, just not how much is free... weird.
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daft question(we have just got a ds7) but by partition your sd card are you refering to the INTERNAL SDcard(storage) or physical sdcard????
Hey First post here, but I must first say thank you to all who have shared your knowledge about rooting a nook.
I have a nook color along with a 16gb sdcard.
I really enjoy how through the home interface, you can switch back and forth from nook to android.
Now initially I was plagued with the dreaded 1gb B&N partion, but once again by using instructions found here was able to repartition and get a larger partition for B&N content.
My question is when I download something from the android market (google play) does it download to the nook partion or to the sdcard.
Also is there a setting that I can tell the nook where to download stuff from google play
Another question, being that my nook color is rooted, how do I backup all my settings and apps so that in case it is reset or there is a problem that I can just restore everything.
The reason I ask is because yesterday after rooting and down loading apps and getting the right live wallpaper, i decided to see if through nook color tools I could find a setting for down loading.
I do not know what I pressed but all of sudden the nook started to reset itself and I had to redo everything all over.
Thanks in advance
Keico2012 said:
Hey First post here, but I must first say thank you to all who have shared your knowledge about rooting a nook.
I have a nook color along with a 16gb sdcard.
I really enjoy how through the home interface, you can switch back and forth from nook to android.
Now initially I was plagued with the dreaded 1gb B&N partion, but once again by using instructions found here was able to repartition and get a larger partition for B&N content.
My question is when I download something from the android market (google play) does it download to the nook partion or to the sdcard.
Also is there a setting that I can tell the nook where to download stuff from google play
Another question, being that my nook color is rooted, how do I backup all my settings and apps so that in case it is reset or there is a problem that I can just restore everything.
The reason I ask is because yesterday after rooting and down loading apps and getting the right live wallpaper, i decided to see if through nook color tools I could find a setting for down loading.
I do not know what I pressed but all of sudden the nook started to reset itself and I had to redo everything all over.
Thanks in advance
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No, there is no setting for Google Play to install to different places. It downloads the apk file temporarily to /cache (which is shared by both emmc and SD installations) then installs it to the system you are booted to (emmc or SD).
You can backup your stock setup using either CWM or TWRP recovery. You can either use the recovery from emmc if you installed it there, or a bootable recovery SD. Go to my tips thread linked in my signature and I have recoveries there you can use.
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No, there is no setting for Google Play to install to different places. It downloads the apk file temporarily to /cache (which is shared by both emmc and SD installations) then installs it to the system you are booted to (emmc or SD).
You can backup your stock setup using either CWM or TWRP recovery. You can either use the recovery from emmc if you installed it there, or a bootable recovery SD. Go to my tips thread linked in my signature and I have recoveries there you can use.
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So if it installs to emnc that would be the nook color internal storage. Would that be considered the B&N storage area and if so should I use the 5gb partition zip file to get the maximum space available ????
Keico2012 said:
So if it installs to emnc that would be the nook color internal storage. Would that be considered the B&N storage area and if so should I use the 5gb partition zip file to get the maximum space available ????
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The terminology is confusing. On emmc (internal) there is /data (called internal memory sometimes) that is used for storing the installed apps and settings. And there is /media (sometimes called media or emmc) that is used for storing media data files from apps, like books, pictures and movies and other downloaded files.
The original Nook Colors came partitioned so that it had 1 GB /data and 5 GB /media. The newer Nooks have it reversed, 5 GB data and 1 GB media. That's is what that repartitioning thread you used was all about. And when you say maximum available, it depends on which partition you want to be maximum for what purpose.
When you create a bootable install SD, it has its own /data and /media (called SDCARD). And it uses those when booted to the SD. So installed apps get installed to the /data on the SD.
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At the risk of sounding like a complete n00b, I come to you all with an issue I'm experiencing. I know it's an operator error, so bear with me;
I just recently flashed Milaq's KK build. I increased the /system partition using the new CWM w/ data/media to 512 mbs. Everything is running well, but all the apps I install are installed to the internal memory, which maxes out around 1.4 gbs. My question is, how do I make the default install location the virtual ext SD card?
I hope this makes a bit of sense to you all - because I'm about to pull my hair out here.
Thanks for any/all input on my current situation.
I understood the partition/directory structure in my previous CM7/CM9 installs.
But with the new datamedia storage configuration I'm confused to all the various labels for the memory storage areas.
I've read the document at http://teamw.in/DataMedia
but the situation is still not very transparent.
• Under Android settings I see "Internal Storage" and "SD Card" and "USB Storage".
• In ES File Explorer I observe:
/sdcard ->
/external_sd -> /storage/sdcard1
/usbdisk -> /storage/usbdisk
/storage/emulated
/storage/sdcard0 ->
/storage/sdcard1
/storage/usbdisk
• In X-plore I also observe:
/storage/0
/storage/legacy
• CM File Manager app top level directory is labeled as "0":
It appears there is various crossover in directory mappings. Is there a definitive guide as to the partitions, directory structures/mappings and symlinks that apply to the above memory areas. There is already enough contradictory posts in various development threads on this so not asking for assumptions/presumptions. Hoping to hear from an expert/developer who knows this stuff on back of their thumb.
And what controls/manages where new apps are installed?
Good Question I also would like to know
While looking around the internet, I found this as a potential option;
In terminal;
su
pm set-install-location 2
I attempted it, but haven't noticed any difference.
/bangshead/
Stryeguy said:
While looking around the internet, I found this as a potential option;
In terminal;
su
pm set-install-location 2
I attempted it, but haven't noticed any difference.
/bangshead/
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I think you are looking at this wrong. Instead of making Android use the external storage by default, you just need to make the data partition bigger and use that as your default storage. Milaq himself suggested this partition layout:
system - 600mb
cache - 200mb
media - 400mb
data - [remaining space] (i.e. ~11.5gb for 16gb TouchPads)
If you are going to go with Milaqs builds, The best way to do it is to move all your stuff from your sd card to your computer, wipe your sd card, use tailor in webOS to repartition to match what Milaq suggested and move all your stuff back onto your device in, I think, the sdcard0 folder (which should now have the majority of the space).
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I think you are looking at this wrong. Instead of making Android use the external storage by default, you just need to make the data partition bigger and use that as your default storage. Milaq himself suggested this partition layout:
system - 600mb
cache - 200mb
media - 400mb
data - [remaining space] (i.e. ~11.5gb for 16gb TouchPads)
If you are going to go with Milaqs builds, The best way to do it is to move all your stuff from your sd card to your computer, wipe your sd card, use tailor in webOS to repartition to match what Milaq suggested and move all your stuff back onto your device in, I think, the sdcard0 folder (which should now have the majority of the space).
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Thank you for your response - it was exactly what I was looking for. I knew I was overlooking a step.
I'll get around to doing that tonight.
Again, thanks so much.
:cheers:
I had the same question. But I just used tailor to resize the partitions. If it says file system error, let it fix it. As long as there are free space, all your files will stay.
Just posting a follow up;
Installed Tailor and repartitioned as per Milaq's instructions, and everything is working as it should be.
Thanks for the help, guys. Glad to know it was just my reading skills that were lacking.