Recovery link:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1279257
This Recovery mount fat32 primary sdcard partition perfect,but not ext2/3/4.
My sdcard primary partition is ext4
So I can't backup&restore my system through CWM recovery
Can some body tell me how to fix it?
Thanks!
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Hi everyone,
I have project in mind but all i did to realize it didn't work.
my project is: i want to use the sdcard with 1st primary partition for saving Roms and updates to work with cwm (fat or fat32), 2nd prim. part. for my data aka "/mnt/sdcard" (ext4), 3rd prim.part. for apps using Link2SD (ext4) and last, optionally, 4th prim. part as SWAP (swap).
this is because i want to use ext4 for /mnt/sdcard but cwm can not read ext4 to backup/restore roms. i tried something with vold.fstab, and init.local.rc, init.rc, /etc/init.d/ but i couldn't achieved the goal.
can anyone help me achieve this?
thx
i'm using CM7 (CyanogenMod-7.1.0-MADTEAM Gingerbread 2.3.7) SD 8GB
512 MB (FAT/FAT32)
6 GB (EXT4)
1GB (EXT4)
128MB (SWAP)
i found a manner to make the first primary partition visible only to cwm: i made it hidden fat.
so android looking for the first usable partition of my sd to mount as sdcard. also by a script i can make swapable the last partition, but this is an option as it is not always wise to have a swap partition.
but some problems remain:
-android forces mount in fat32 for sdcard
-link2sd forces to mount the 2nd partition for its purposes, and it cant because the partition is already mounted as sdcard in fat32. link2sd has to mount the third partition for linked apps.
ok my sdcard is not seen on my device what made it unseenable is that i wanted to use ext3 so i deleted all partrion,wiped sdcard,made 3gb fat32,300 mb swap and 300 MB ext3 now my sdcard cannot be seen i went into mount in cwm and used mount on all options but still not on phone seen and root explorer says its not mounted i can see all my data on sd card on my pc using card reader and i use my fat32 partition primary and other 2 partitions logical please help me asap and thanks in advance
ALL partition should be PRIMARY - not LOGICAL.
Backup your data and format it in, then create those partitions in MiniTool Partition Wizard
- FAT32 (primary)
- EXT3 (primary)
- LINUX SWAP (primary)
but must warn you -> there is possibility that you will have troubles with automounting EXT3 or SWAP...
penthaler said:
ALL partition should be PRIMARY - not LOGICAL.
Backup your data and format it in, then create those partitions in MiniTool Partition Wizard
- FAT32 (primary)
- EXT3 (primary)
- LINUX SWAP (primary)
but must warn you -> there is possibility that you will have troubles with automounting EXT3 or SWAP...
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swap is already mounted bt ext3 I can use A2SD IN settings right?
pic of what im gonna do in attachments plz see it
ok i did it what i didi is attached screenshot and im booting it up now
So ran out of storage in /data partition, decided to create 2 partitions in my external SD and i created it using Gparted, one is ext4 and the other is fat32, now the phone refuses to mount the ext4 partition from Link2SD.
Looking at the vold.fstab file and sysfs paths(/devices/platform/mtk-msdc.0) , it seems that our phone can mount only 2 (+1 otg) partitions ? (or is it just 2 sd cards ?)
is it even possible to mount the second partiton ?? (No /devices/platform/msm_sdcc )
I do know of the EMMC method, i don't like it ;p
A block for the second partiton is present in /dev/block,(mmcblk1p2) gonna mount and see what happens
gowtham121 said:
So ran out of storage in /data partition, decided to create 2 partitions in my external SD and i created it using Gparted, one is ext4 and the other is fat32, now the phone refuses to mount the ext4 partition from Link2SD.
Looking at the vold.fstab file and sysfs paths(/devices/platform/mtk-msdc.0) , it seems that our phone can mount only 2 (+1 otg) partitions ? (or is it just 2 sd cards ?)
is it even possible to mount the second partiton ?? (No /devices/platform/msm_sdcc )
I do know of the EMMC method, i don't like it ;p
A block for the second partiton is present in /dev/block,(mmcblk1p2) gonna mount and see what happens
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Click to collapse
hi, gowtham121
ROOT your phone first,
create 2 partitions as fat32 on sdcard
its work on my chd:fingers-crossed:
I would like to partition a 4gb sdcard and create three partitions for user data, phone data and swap
The rom on the phone is nobodyAtall's MiniCM10-4.1.0 (Nightly May-18-2013) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1837273
My question is: Would be any problem using sdcard partitions as phone internals?
My idea is create partitions, change the device init scripts so the phone mounts a sdcard partition as /data and other as swap. SDCard Class 10 might not be used.
Hi All,
I just got a new 32GB microSD card, and I'm trying to create a partition via TWRP to install apps on it.
I am on 4.4.4, tried with both TWRP official and unofficial (2.8.5.0), tried with EXT3 and EXT4
Code:
Partitioning SD Card...
Removing Partition Table...
Creating FAT32 partition...
Creating EXT partition...
E: Unable to locate sd-ext partiton
Any hints? Thanks
Okay, fixed using a PC with EaseUS Partiton Master, and I created an EXT3 partition which is successfully mounted by Link2SD.
However via recovery I'm still unable to create an EXT3/4 partition.