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apps2sd working, but /data size increasing?

In short: When I install a new app, the app gets installed in /system/sd just fine (/data/app and /data/app-private symlinks work just fine) , but /data increases a little too.
before installing seesmic and pandora df shows:
Code:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 197584 0 197584 0% /dev
tmpfs 4096 0 4096 0% /sqlite_stmt_journals
/dev/block/mtdblock3 148480 110484 37996 74% /system
/dev/block/mtdblock5 200960 [B][COLOR="Blue"]62260[/COLOR][/B] 138700 31% [B]/data[/B]
/dev/block/mtdblock4 97280 39952 57328 41% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 702873 [B]97721 [/B]567652 15% [B]/system/sd[/B]
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 702873 97721 567652 15% /data/dalvik-cache
/dev/block//vold/179:1
14898512 827680 14070832 6% /sdcard
After installing seesmic and pandora df shows:
Code:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 197584 0 197584 0% /dev
tmpfs 4096 0 4096 0% /sqlite_stmt_journals
/dev/block/mtdblock3 148480 110484 37996 74% /system
/dev/block/mtdblock5 200960 [B][COLOR="Red"]62544 [/COLOR][/B] 138416 31% [B]/data[/B]
/dev/block/mtdblock4 97280 41280 56000 42% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 702873 [B]100347 [/B]565026 15%[B] /system/sd[/B]
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 702873 100347 565026 15% /data/dalvik-cache
/dev/block//vold/179:1
14898512 827680 14070832 6% /sdcard
Notice that /data increased by 300KB. Anyone know why?
why is my /data partition 31% used?

Yes, the size of the /data partition does increase even with apps2sd enabled... and from a quick analysis of the /data partition (with apps2sd enabled), I noticed this...
1. the applications are installed on the sd card and the /app & /app-private are symlinked
2. the application information is stored in /data/system/packages.xml (kinda like the windows registry)
3. some application data like shared prefs, extra libs (if any) are stored in /data/data
i guess this accounts for the usage size increase!!!

It looks like the apps are getting is installed to the sd card fine, but the app data still gets stored in the internal ROM
/data/data has 157 folders and is 52MB
/system/sd/app-private has 0 files and is 1K
Therefore it looks like either the apps2sd implementation is incomplete, or didnt get installed correctly.
Anyone tried moving /data/data to /system/sd/app-data and creating a symlink for it? (trying this now...)

darn it. after a reboot the OS removed my symlink, created a new /data/data folder, and apps are still writing to this folder now. lucky i made a backup.
... maybe while booting it saw that the /system/sd/app-data link was invalid (not mounted yet), and hence re-created the folder.

need help with app2sd badly.. pls

i think i managed to get the app2sd installed.
however i'm unable to confirm if its working. it appears my /system/sd is there but when i went to /data/app and did a pwd
it appears the prompt still return /data/app instead of /system/sd/app
anyone know what i did wrong and what i can do to address the symbolic link?
Thanks
# ./busybox df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 112.5M 0 112.5M 0% /dev
tmpfs 4.0M 16.0K 4.0M 0% /sqlite_stmt_journals
/dev/block/mtdblock6 175.6M 146.5M 29.2M 83% /system
/dev/block/mtdblock8 197.1M 58.0M 139.1M 29% /data
/dev/block/mtdblock7 106.0M 3.0M 103.0M 3% /cache
/dev/block/mtdblock5 8.8M 8.4M 328.0K 96% /cdrom
tmpfs 2.0M 24.0K 2.0M 1% /tmp
/dev/block/mtdblock0 1.5M 1.2M 268.0K 83% /pds
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 984.3M 17.3M 917.0M 2% /system/sd
/dev/block//vold/179:1
13.7G 3.5M 13.7G 0% /sdcard
# cd /data/app
# pwd
/data/app

[Q] Q - no sdcard is mounted

Hi.
I had rooted (CF-Root-XW_XEN_JS5-v1.3) galaxy i9000 and I updated it with CF-Root-XW_XEE_JVB-v3.1-CWM3RFS. Odin said - successful, but phone after that never boot up successfully, just showed 'Galaxy S ...' on the screen.
Via recovery, using adb shell is see now:
$ busybox df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 169.5M 0 169.5M 0% /dev
nodev 169.5M 8.0K 169.5M 0% /tmp
df: /mnt/.lfs: Function not implemented
tmpfs 169.5M 0 169.5M 0% /mnt/asec
/dev/block/stl9 275.8M 274.2M 1.6M 99% /system
/dev/block/stl3 5.9M 5.0M 933.0K 85% /efs
/dev/block/stl11 30.1M 4.0M 26.1M 13% /cache
Before update it showed:
tmpfs 169.5M 0 169.5M 0% /dev
df: /mnt/.lfs: Function not implemented
tmpfs 169.5M 0 169.5M 0% /mnt/asec
/dev/block/stl9 275.8M 274.2M 1.7M 99% /system
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 1.9G 354.3M 1.5G 18% /data
/dev/block/stl10 127.2M 12.4M 114.8M 10% /dbdata
/dev/block/stl11 30.1M 4.0M 26.1M 13% /cache
/dev/block/stl3 5.9M 5.0M 935.0K 85% /efs
/dev/block/vold/179:1 13.4G 4.0G 9.4G 30% /mnt/sdcard
Any suggestions, how could I get my sdcard and data volumes again mounted? Somehow via adb mount or should I use Odin with repartition?

[SOLVED]"Not enough disk space" problem.

Ok.. so I was having issues with not being able to install apps after I did a factory reset on my phone and reinstalled v20q rebuild and a custom kernel.
Some things from the market automatically downloaded, but others failed saying "Not enough disk space".
So I attached my phone to the PC, and deleted some unimportant files (Like soutcraft demo I never used, I removed the spiderman/gameloft stuff.. and other stuff that I knew was not important. I DID NOT remove system files.
So in the end.. I had about a gig spare space on my internal SD card. BUT after rebooting it still says "not enough disk space".
So I tried to boot into CWM... but it no longer boots in. I can't install Astro as not enough disk space. how the heck can I find out what's going on?
Which partition is it referring to not enough space? (And why won't CWM work?)
If i goto settings > applications > Manage Applications > Storage > It tells me I am only using 302MB of 1.2GB .. so defo plenty. It must be a different partition?

The /system partition is probably full, not the entire internal SD-card. I ran across the same problem when I installed adaway and tried to install the hosts file. So I deleted a couple of .apk's from /system/app. Why the system partition is so small I don't know.

Might that explain why CWM isn't starting as well?

Just a quick thought: on my old phone, when this error occurred, I had to wipe cache partition. It wouldn't hurt to try - as you cannot access CWM, maybe there's a way to do this using ADB.

wiredback said:
Just a quick thought: on my old phone, when this error occurred, I had to wipe cache partition. It wouldn't hurt to try - as you cannot access CWM, maybe there's a way to do this using ADB.
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I've tried a factory reset. It wouldn't do the reset.
I've tried formatting the internal SD Card. It did that, but made no difference.
As you say, I am unable to get into CWM, so I would need some help with ADB if I'm to sort this :-(

I had that once too.
Did you change to EXT4 ?

Hmm.. not that I remember. I remember it saying that it was 'converting to ext3' when I put flashed "V20Q rebuild" on again, but I thought it was ext3 anyway. I'm not sure anything I have put on has ext4...
Only other thing I put on was the V20Q tweak pack, followed by spica's HP RC12 kernel (was trying it out).
Only thing I can do at present is seemingly to get in Android, and hook it up to the PC. It's useable, but without apps I'm a bit screwed, and even more screwed without access to CWM.
Can I reflash CWM perhaps?
(Side Note: I have flashed V20Q rebuild, gueste kernel, flik123's tweak pack and spica's HP kernel before without issue... I think this might be relating to the internal partition space. How the hell do I get access to it).

It's a bit of a pain that you can't get in CWM else you could try the backtoext3 tool by Paul, and reflash
I did that and it worked.
But with my problem, CWM still worked... Strange.
try reflashing CWM, and then go in CWM and format your /system and do a full wipe.
And reflash the ROM.
Try the BackToExt3 tool too (if Reflashing CWM worked):
http://android.modaco.com/topic/336...3-for-converting-your-device-er-back-to-ext3/
IT WILL WIPE YOUR DATA
BTW : Only use the backtoext3.zip mod of course if you use a EXT3 ROM
If that all dind't work try to hard reset to factory settings with NVFlash:
http://android.modaco.com/topic/335...k-rom-release-v10b-dated-1300166062-15032011/
Flashing at your own risk of course.
Hope this helps you somewhat i'm just suggesting some things for you to try.

I would firstly try to flash CWM again using ROM Manager or (if this is not possible) manually (I think there is a thread in Development section how to do this).
Secondly, I would flash original ROM using Smartflash.

I'm unable to run that from work, so I'll give it a shot when I get home.

Restalling CWM did nothing. Still a blank screen after the 2nd LG logo (Where the CWM logo and options would normally be).
Hmm.. how can I get access to the system partition, and then how do I delete stuff? (I'm a newb at linux stuff)
In fact, interal and external CWM bat files seems to copy but doesn't work on reboot :-( ARGGHH.

Hmm.. seems I can do a 'pull' and managed to pull everything out of /system/ LOL!!!
Someone help me here.. I assume I need to delete something in /system/ (or another directory???) to make room on the partition?
As info I have been looking around and used the 'df' command to get this:
# df system
df system
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
system 338M 327M 11M 1024
# df root
df root
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
root 0K 0K 0K 4096
# df
df
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/dev 185M 64K 185M 4096
/mnt/asec 185M 0K 185M 4096
/mnt/obb 185M 0K 185M 4096
/system 338M 327M 11M 1024 <---- is this the issue here 11M free ?
/data 1G 136M 1G 4096
/mnt/extasec 185M 0K 185M 4096
/lgdrm 2M 2M 398K 2048
/mnt/sdcard 5G 2M 5G 4096
/mnt/secure/asec 5G 2M 5G 4096
/mnt/sdcard/_ExternalSD 7G 2G 4G 32768
/mnt/extsecure/extasec 7G 2G 4G 32768

"Pulled" some files off as backups, and deleted a few apk's to try and make space on system, but CWM will still not boot.
I have tried deleting the dalvik-cache, and no difference. I've tried reinstalling CWM.. but no difference :-(
What is going on :-(
EDIT: Even after removing these APK's which must have given me at least 20mb extra.. I STILL cannot download anything else from the market. Something is wrong here. please help XDA

Have you tried the Smartflash or NVflash method
To hard reset your phone we recommended ?

Not yet. Spent all night trying to make space on the system area, but it still told me no space, and CWM wouldn't boot.
Which do you recommened I try first? Actually I will follow Rusty's post here and see what happens (with NVFlash) . http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1229407&highlight=smart+flash
I am not worried about the data in the slightest, only recovering the phone.

@Scougar: the df output looks a bit strange for me. I was expecting to see something like this:
# df
df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 215564 32 215532 0% /dev
tmpfs 215564 0 215564 0% /mnt/asec
tmpfs 215564 0 215564 0% /mnt/obb
tmpfs 215564 0 215564 0% /mnt/asec
tmpfs 215564 0 215564 0% /mnt/extasec
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 347067 198348 130799 60% /system
/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 1548144 271128 1198376 18% /data
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 63461 4154 56031 7% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk0p6 2472 2074 398 84% /lgdrm
(some other less relevant entries deleted to make the output more readable).
Please note that I can see actual devices (partitions) how much they are filled and where they are mounted. In your output I'm missing things like e.g. cache partition.
The above output I got on adb but the same thing appeared in terminal emulator on my phone (currently WIUI).
You can also use "mount" command to see what is mounted where.

mipr said:
@Scougar: the df output looks a bit strange for me. I was expecting to see something like this:
# df
df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 215564 32 215532 0% /dev
tmpfs 215564 0 215564 0% /mnt/asec
tmpfs 215564 0 215564 0% /mnt/obb
tmpfs 215564 0 215564 0% /mnt/asec
tmpfs 215564 0 215564 0% /mnt/extasec
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 347067 198348 130799 60% /system
/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 1548144 271128 1198376 18% /data
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 63461 4154 56031 7% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk0p6 2472 2074 398 84% /lgdrm
(some other less relevant entries deleted to make the output more readable).
Please note that I can see actual devices (partitions) how much they are filled and where they are mounted. In your output I'm missing things like e.g. cache partition.
The above output I got on adb but the same thing appeared in terminal emulator on my phone (currently WIUI).
You can also use "mount" command to see what is mounted where.
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OK, I'll redo the df tonight when I get in (I can't do it from work), and see what I get. Maybe you have a different version of ADB to me ? (I am using the version as supplied by Rusty in his CWM script thread - linked to from the Q&A).
I'm trying to go through the sequence of events that lead up to this:
1) Booted into CWM (I did all the below WITHOUT rebooting until I had finished installing ZIPS - fatal flaw?)
2) Wiped dalvik cache
3) wiped data/Factory reset
4) Installed the Rebuilt V20Q ROM
5) Installed the V20Q Tweak pack (From Flix123)
6) Installed Spica's latest HP kernel (RC12 a few days ago).
I then rebooted.
None of the above I believe would have changed to ext4, only ext3 (Although I really don't understand ext versions at present). Perhaps by me doing too much at once, and not rebooting after I installed the V20Q ROM is what did it?

I'm using the latest adb downloaded from google. But this should not matter because with adb you are running commands from your phone, not from your computer, i.e. after "adb shell" you are effectively on your phone and the "df" is one of the commands on your phone. You may try "df -a" which should list all your file systems. You may also try "df --help" to see all command options. Additionally the "mount" command (without any params) should list all your mounted devices/partitions along with their filesystems, e.g. on my phone I get following:
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 on /system type ext4 (rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 on /data type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 on /cache type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/block/mmcblk0p6 on /lgdrm type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,data=writeback)
As you can see my "system" partition is ext4, as well as "data" and "cache" partitions.

mipr said:
I'm using the latest adb downloaded from google. But this should not matter because with adb you are running commands from your phone, not from your computer, i.e. after "adb shell" you are effectively on your phone and the "df" is one of the commands on your phone. You may try "df -a" which should list all your file systems. You may also try "df --help" to see all command options. Additionally the "mount" command (without any params) should list all your mounted devices/partitions along with their filesystems, e.g. on my phone I get following:
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 on /system type ext4 (rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 on /data type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 on /cache type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/block/mmcblk0p6 on /lgdrm type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,data=writeback)
As you can see my "system" partition is ext4, as well as "data" and "cache" partitions.
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Cool, thanks. I'll give those a go tonight

Here is the result of the mount command:- (I do not know how to interprete the output, advice here gladly received)
# mount
mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,noatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,noatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,noatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /system ext3 ro,nodev,noatime,errors=continue,data=ordered
0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 /data ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,errors=continue,data=ord
ered 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/extasec tmpfs rw,nodev,noatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p6 /lgdrm ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:9 /mnt/sdcard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,ui
d=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=
iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:9 /mnt/secure/asec vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noati
me,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocha
rset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/sdcard/.android_secure tmpfs ro,relatime,size=0k,mode=000 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:17 /mnt/sdcard/_ExternalSD vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noex
ec,noatime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp4
37,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:17 /mnt/extsecure/extasec vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexe
c,noatime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp43
7,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/sdcard/_ExternalSD/.android_secure tmpfs ro,relatime,size=0k,mode=000
0 0
#

/sbin/.magisk/mirror/system at 100%?

Hi all,
I just did an update on my OnePlus 3T from Android 8 to Android 9 that went wrong so that I had to do a factory reset. Well, damn. So here I am with a freshly installed Android 9 / OOS 9.0.3.
Magisk 19.3 is installed and I wanted to configure Adaway but Adaway told me upon activation of the new hosts file that there's no space on the device left.
That's what it looks like:
Code:
OnePlus3T:/ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 2.7G 9.2M 2.7G 1% /
tmpfs 2.7G 1.4M 2.7G 1% /sbin
tmpfs 2.7G 804K 2.7G 1% /dev
tmpfs 2.7G 0 2.7G 0% /mnt
/dev/block/sde20 2.8G 2.8G 0 100% /system
none 2.7G 0 2.7G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/block/sda3 248M 4.3M 238M 2% /cache
/dev/block/sde12 12M 4.1M 7.2M 37% /system/vendor/dsp
/dev/block/sda2 27M 776K 26M 3% /mnt/vendor/persist
/dev/block/dm-0 113G 16G 97G 15% /data
/data/media 113G 16G 97G 15% /storage/emulated
OnePlus3T:/ $ su -
OnePlus3T:/ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 2.7G 9.2M 2.7G 1% /
tmpfs 2.7G 1.4M 2.7G 1% /sbin
tmpfs 2.7G 804K 2.7G 1% /dev
tmpfs 2.7G 0 2.7G 0% /mnt
none 2.7G 0 2.7G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/block/sda3 248M 4.3M 244M 2% /cache
/dev/block/sde12 12M 4.1M 7.5M 36% /system/vendor/dsp
/dev/block/sde11 95M 82M 13M 87% /system/vendor/firmware_mnt
/dev/block/sde23 1.0G 128K 1.0G 1% /system/vendor/bt_firmware
/dev/block/sda2 27M 776K 27M 3% /mnt/vendor/persist
/sbin/.magisk/block/system 2.8G 2.8G 4.0M 100% /sbin/.magisk/mirror/system
/sbin/.magisk/block/data 113G 16G 97G 15% /sbin/.magisk/mirror/data
/data/media 113G 16G 97G 15% /mnt/runtime/default/emulated
Where does /sbin/.magisk/mirror/system come from and is there any way to resize that partition? Or does anyone have a clue on how to resolve this without removing system/vendor apps (as they're getting reinstalled on the next update)?

If OnePlus decided to fill up the system partition, then the Magisk system mirror will be full as well.
What you want to look at though is /system, not /sbin/.magisk/mirror/system. The latter is simply the real system partition and the former is Magisk's systemless mask.
Since it's full you're going to have to do some workarounds... Like creating a Magisk module to mount the hosts file of your choice directly.

Well, that's pretty unfortunate from OnePlus. As suggested I did it with the systemless hosts and it works fine. Thanks a lot!