Hello,
I have the SD card with 3 partitions one FAT and two ext2. But the system only mount one FAT and one ext2. I would like to mount the third partition any time the system boot.
Is it possible?
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.
Right this desire is starting to become a problem child to say the least -_-, installed gingerburst 1.0.0.3 pre rooted and S-OFF and suddenly it wont mount my sd card itll mount my 8gb one but not my 16gb one and i need the 16gb one. tried reformatting it in recovery and mounting it via tht but i dno if i did it wrong or something. need the sd card partitioned for data2sd so partition sizes and names and info wud be good, thx
in recorvery it also says under mounts and storage tht "mount /sdcard" so it doesnt mount it auto. i tried mounting it then rebooting but wont mount again. i found under advanced in recovery it has partition sd card i formated it n now ive partitioned it using this method biggest vales ext 4096mb so 4gb and w.e the highest one for the other one was. basicly i want this sd card to be partitioned for data2sd to work good desire has very low internal memory and gingerburst is the best sense rom i found
fixed: i re partitioned it in recovery under advanced after formatting it within recovery in mounts and storage then clicked mount within mounts of storage on the sd card then rebooted. need details for partitioning it now
on my sd card it has a linux swap file a fat32partition n an ext2 partition what partition has data2sd got to be? ext 4 3 2 1?
for sdcard u normally have vfat(fat32) filesystem, when using it as data also (data2sd) you should add any ext partition I would recommend ext4 however some roms might not support that (should be very old roms) so you can make it with ext3.
you can use Gparted or MiniTool Partition Wizard to repartition the sdcard. you can check what filesystem is your data partition using 'mount'.
note that you should have some vfat partition left if you want to use it as a normal sdcard.
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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hi, gowtham121
ROOT your phone first,
create 2 partitions as fat32 on sdcard
its work on my chd:fingers-crossed:
I followed this guide to create a second partition (in order to save internal space). But the problem is, Link2Sd won't work on it saying /data/sdext2 mount is not found (whilst /data/sdext2 exists). I also selected and tried the following : Ext2 and ext4. At this moment, I'm not sure if Fat32 or ext3 will work anymore.
Hi
I tried to create 2nd partition as ext4 on internal SDcard, 3 GB but my device keep saying that the SDcard is broken and tell me to format it. when i format it, it format the whole SDcard as FAT32.
what i did is delete the whole partition, apply it, create 2nd partition as ext4 and give to 3 GB and create 1st partition as FAT32 and give it 10 GB. my tablet does not have custom recovery.