Ive searched a little, and I cant find anything, but can /boot be resized on the touchpad? 32 Megs I find is not enough.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=717874 original G1
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=855424 Reused on EVO
I'm wondering if someone smarter then I can Figure out how to mod the script for the Atrix since we have a unlocked bootloader now.
I notice it is for S-OFF phones, but I'm thinking that this doesn't matter on our phone since we are able to flash radio's ect.
The way I see it we have two main groups of Atrix users, those that want to take space from /sdcard and use it in /osh and those that don't care about /osh and would use the increase space in /sdcard
Mods, sorry if this is the wrong section but It is a development question, I though would be best here.
So reading into these it seems that there are two zips/scripts. The first setups the recovery, you then reboot into recovery flash your android back on then run the second script which tells the kernel what to use for partition sizes.
If you want to go back to stock you reflash the recovery image.
The ATRIX has a very different partition table then evo, hero or g1. So well need someone who understands it better then I to look at the scripts.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13971291&postcount=110
Here is more info, this is for the nook color, but it looks as though we could re-partition the internal memory as we desire. The risk is huge. Also I believe that CWM will re-write the partition table when doing wipes. I don't know the way all of this functions well enough to make the jump and make the /osh 2 or 4gb but that is what I'm looking into.
that might be rather dangerous doings resulting in unworkable touchscreen etc, since for seom reason repartitioning the internal nand ****s up /pds . several people had great problems by doing so.
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that might be rather dangerous doings resulting in unworkable touchscreen etc, since for seom reason repartitioning the internal nand ****s up /pds . several people had great problems by doing so.
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I did read that, but it seemed that it was before it was known that we need to back up the pds partition. But of course we should have images of all the partitions before doing something like this. It sounded relativity safe according to those threads. The partition table has to be written every time you flash and ClockWorkMod apparently will correct the partitions to factory settings if things get messed up.
But then this is why I posted the question, I don't know enough about how clockwork mod works nor how moving the pds partition would effect things.
Again if we can figure this out we can get enough room on /osh so that sogarths hack is not needed (it is redundant and sort of a waste of space (not bashing, it is the best option currently avaiable) to copy the /osh part to a new spot on the sdcard then link everything back in). For those not interested in webtop we can get them more system or sdcard space.
/system 315M 301.9M 13.1M 4096
/data 2G 895.9M 1.1G 4096
/cache 619.8M 87.8M 532M 2048
/osh 755.8M 643.1M 112.6M 2048
315M is too small for cm10 to install extra mods like sony walkman. i wonder if someone can resize it
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/system 315M 301.9M 13.1M 4096
/data 2G 895.9M 1.1G 4096
/cache 619.8M 87.8M 532M 2048
/osh 755.8M 643.1M 112.6M 2048
315M is too small for cm10 to install extra mods like sony walkman. i wonder if someone can resize it
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I agree with you. For those don't using lapdock, /osh partition really waste of memory but resize partition could brick the device.
here another tool to resize partition.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1171531
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1370963
The reason I'm asking this is because of the 20MB application size download limit that a lot of people experienced. I did a little research and deduced that it's because the /cache partition is used by Market as a temporary download directory.
Even if I wipe the /cache partition, it still only has around 20MB of free space.
Now, I know that physically resizing /cache might be impractical (not to mention dangerous), so I think the best way is to create some sort of script that creates a link to the /cache partition (not unlike DTA2SD and Link2SD scripts).
The solutions I found were mostly for HTC phones, and the Samsung Galaxy S. I'm a bit scared of the potential damage it may cause by applying a script for another phone into this phone.
Please don't suggest flashing another ROM. I'm quite comfortable with this one.
TL;DR So does anybody know how to increase the /cache partition size safely and reliably?
Thanks in advance!
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I have a DInc, which has an internal eMMC. Problem is, I can't do much with /mnt/emmc's 6.6GB (most apps will not step outside /mnt/sdcard). Here's what the setup looks like:
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Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 748.0M 247.8M 462.2M 35% /data
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 193.7M 52.1M 131.6M 28% /cache
/dev/block/vold/179:3 6.6G 2.4G 4.2G 37% /mnt/emmc
... where /dev/block/vold/179:3 is /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
So, my foolish mind wondered, why not repartition it make better use of the space? Why not make /data >1 GB? Bye-bye apps on sd! 'mount' shouldn't care, right?
But how could one repartition the device? Since it's inside the phone, it can't be accessed without the phone running... which I would probably break lots of things while attempting the act. (i.e. it's not a removable SD card that I can stick in my PC and have at it.)
(Note: Most of the used space on /mnt/emmc is music. But I'm moving to a 32GB sdcard. So I don't see the point of have emmc space anymore.)
Hello I really don't understand this cause am still trying to learn about Linux and android but according to my understanding the /dev partition is to load various device partitions (most likely am wrong ...) but then when I saw the there was 260mb space for this partition I couldn't understand why would so much free space be just that free rather resize the partitions to have a larger /data please do tell what's happening? ?
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Hello I really don't understand this cause am still trying to learn about Linux and android but according to my understanding the /dev partition is to load various device partitions (most likely am wrong ...) but then when I saw the there was 260mb space for this partition I couldn't understand why would so much free space be just that free rather resize the partitions to have a larger /data please do tell what's happening? ?
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The /dev partitions contains the device nodes, and they are a kind of access points to the kernel drivers such as disks etc. The /dev directory itself is most often a file system in ram, so any "size" of this, is more or less irrelevant. "Excessive" space here will not waste anything what so ever, not ram, nor flash, and the space information should only be used as an indicator about the max capacity, and this is not relevant for the /dev volume at all.
Hi everyone,
I just wondered how big the /system partition should be?
Because I wanted to install a custom keyboard with a flashable .zip, but it's not working. So I tried to put it in /system by myself, but actually, there is no space, what also should be the reason for CWN not beeing able to flash it...
My partition is 315.87mb, according to root explorer, an 0mb left. Is this the normal size? My App folder is only around 100mb... Where is the other space??
Thanks!
The /system partition size on every single Atrix out there is exactly 320 MB. There is no known way to change that. That is the raw partition size - once it is formatted to contain a filesystem, some of that will be lost, depending on the actual filesystem (ext3, ext4, ...).
Also, questions should go to Q&A.
Thanks a lot for the quick reply!
I believe there are methods to grow through linking to /osh but I have not researched. However, you already have the option to move (root explorer) other apps to /data if you need to free up space.
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