Also, I have heard a lot of talk about EXT4. What's up with that?
Thx 2 all.
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Anyone?
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haven't done much research, but from what i can tell, ext 4 has taken the place of ext3, and most ROMs have it set to automatically install to sd, much like DT, but not exactly the same.
Ok so this is simple, I got a new sd card for my ace and I have a this question Can I just exchange sd cards and keep using the phone or do I have to do anything special so I can use it? If it helps I'm using a cm7 based rom right now. Thanks in advance.
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I wonder if it simply done by copying all the data. But wait, how about the data on partition?
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You won't have to change anything at all. Put it in and go (unless you've partitioned your previous card a2sd, s2e)
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Install rom previus you have partition sd card
Reboot fone download link2sd and swapper to root users an setting link2sd in ext4 before reboot setting swapp in settings create swapp and on swapp after reboot fone on swapp and verificate with terninal emulator writh free and look numbers
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The **** I just read?!? Even if I wouldn't know that now I still wouldn't know as I didn't understand a s**t.
Even if you had good intentions...
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You know... some commas, full stops, new paragraphs and spell checks help a lot at making the guide easier to read.
Also, we already have one or two guides on how to use swap.
And completely wrong section by the way.
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dafuq i just read
This is the form my phone work with roms
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Sorry im learning using this community helpme
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Hi, one of devs from my device had told us that he'll move system and data images from scard to SD ext, but actually he left before doing this so now I'm stuck with useless 5gb ext4 partition on my scard. I'd format it and then change partitions if my sdcard wouldn't be filled with over 20GB of various files. Is it possible to change the size of the second partition to about 500 MB and turn it from ext4 to swap without formatting entire sdcard?
Thanks for any help.
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I don't care this much about resizing it. Changing to swap would be enough but if resizing is possible then I'm more than happy
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I've tried fdisk stuff via terminal emulator but sdcard0 is read only (it's not) and I have no idea what I might be doing wrong
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Why the **** posts are not being merged now?...
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I think gparted is capable of deleting partitions. Then you can resize the unallocated space, and format it to whatever you like.
You should be able to do this without touching your other partition with 20gb of stuff on it, and therfore you shouldnt lose any data.
Deleted
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It worked! ^_^ thanks a lot mate!
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So when I go into storage it said I have 9gb of "other" ?? Anyone have an idea what it can be? I've looked everywhere through my phone to find these mysterious files.
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Like a bunch of text maybe game saves obb files
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Try file manager in root mode and check for your old files and ROM backups in /data/media folder.
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OK just to be sure here. I'm on a 4.2 rom as well and I have a about 9 gigs taken up. I turned es file Explorer on root mode and unhid the hidden files. I looked and there was a data/media folder with about 9 gigs in it. Should I delete this and I will be fine?
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That's all your personal data. Don't delete the whole thing but look for the large directories under there.
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Well I looked through there and it seems to be almost a copy of my SD card folder. I looked through all the files and there is 5 files with the exact same contents. They are all identical to the SD card folder and they are taking up the same amount of space . the files are SD card, inside the data/media and 0 inside the same folder. Inside the storage folder there is both sdcard0 and legacy. All these have the same contents.
What's up with this?
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Your old home folder is /data/media the new one is the 0 folder. You can delete most of the duplicates from media, and can move anything into 0 that you want to keep.
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When you upgrade from a 4.1.1 rom to a 4.2.2 rom or 4.3 rom your storage changes from sdcard0 to something else so you will find a lot of duplicates that can be deleted. Just for future reference.
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If you check the size of the /data it will probably explain the missing space. Just backup your important info to the pc and do an internal wipe
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Similar issue, except /data/media doesn’t appear to be what's using my space. See attached screenshot for details. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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Similar issue, except /data/media doesn’t appear to be what's using my space. See attached screenshot for details. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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techinv said:
Similar issue, except /data/media doesn’t appear to be what's using my space. See attached screenshot for details. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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I've had this problem, and like torrentd said back up important files to pc and I format internal storage in recovery. Deletes all useless files and replicas.
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henslo said:
I've had this problem, and like torrentd said back up important files to pc and I format internal storage in recovery. Deletes all useless files and replicas.
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Thanks, but would you mind giving me some specifics on what directories/file systems to format? The space usage for me doesn't appear to be in /data/media like many others have posted so part of my problem is that I'm not sure where to look.
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Thanks, but would you mind giving me some specifics on what directories/file systems to format? The space usage for me doesn't appear to be in /data/media like many others have posted so part of my problem is that I'm not sure where to look.
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If you use twrp recovery, just go in wipe, and wipe internal storage.
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If you use twrp recovery, just go in wipe, and wipe internal storage.
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Okay. Would I be flashing my ROM/kernel combination after that step?
I assume that restoring a backup might introduce problems so probably better to stay away from that??
Thanks
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Similar issue, except /data/media doesn’t appear to be what's using my space. See attached screenshot for details. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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That screenshot is useless, depending on if you are using android 4.1.x or android 4.2.x
4.2.x introduces a new filesystem and starts using a new directory /data/media/0
all of your old data is still in /data/media and your phone is looking at /data/media/0 for sdcard space
it calculates total space by how big /data media is and its contents are under /0 (the 0 is the user that is on the device, /1 would be a second user account, however user accounts are disabled on phones)