What is the procedure of shifting to a new SD card? - Optimus One, P500, V General

Guys I ordered a new 8gb SanDisk class 6 card for my O1 so firstly I would like to know the things i should do to shift from my current 2gb card to the new one.
What are these partitions and how can I do that??
Will I have to reflash the rom after putting the new card??
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If you don't know what the current partitions are, then the original card is probably one big FAT32 partition. Which is probably what the new 8GB one is. If you had partitioned it differently you would know it.
So the short answer is:
power off the phone
remove the card and mount on your PC
copy everything to a folder on your hard drive including .hidden files and dirs*
unmount the 2GB
mount the 8GB
copy back to the card
unmount the 8GB
replace in phone and boot
* you didn't mention what OS your PC is, so I will assume WinDoze

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> if ur using amonra recovery .. you could simply partition sd card
> leave swap to 32
> partition size.. ur choice
> if ur not planing to use ungaze data2sd
> convert it to ext2-ext3
> covert ext3 to ext4 (ext4 is better and cm7 supports it)

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neko95 said:
> if ur using amonra recovery .. you could simply partition sd card
> leave swap to 32
> partition size.. ur choice
> if ur not planing to use ungaze data2sd
> convert it to ext2-ext3
> covert ext3 to ext4 (ext4 is better and cm7 supports it)
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can u explain it a bit more?? Im not planning to use ungaze data2sd (actually i have no much idea about it lol but until now i have never used it so i dont think ill need it ) so then what should i do??
and yes I am using ur GTR so what would be the best partitions and how to do it??

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IKnowIRock! said:
can u explain it a bit more?? Im not planning to use ungaze data2sd (actually i have no much idea about it lol but until now i have never used it so i dont think ill need it ) so then what should i do??
and yes I am using ur GTR so what would be the best partitions and how to do it??
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Don't get yourself confused, just copy everything in your 2gb sdcard to your computer, then unmount it. Mount your 8gb sdcard and copy back the files into the sdcard and all is done
There is no need to reflash ROM, and no need to care about partitions etc since u don't use them anyway
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IKnowIRock! said:
can u explain it a bit more?? Im not planning to use ungaze data2sd (actually i have no much idea about it lol but until now i have never used it so i dont think ill need it ) so then what should i do??
and yes I am using ur GTR so what would be the best partitions and how to do it??
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> TAKE NOTE , before copying ur files to ur new sd, if ur planing to partition it.. partition it first.. why? cause your sd will be formatted during partition and all data will be lost..
> I already told how to.. just follow that procedure

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What is swap and ext?? and what is the purpose of them??
Plus I use App2SD though...not any other special scripts
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IKnowIRock! said:
What is swap and ext?? and what is the purpose of them??
Plus I use App2SD though...not any other special scripts
Sent from my LG-P500 using XDA
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for SWAP google Linux Swap, but its basically a paging file for your phone in a linux environment, if you dont know what that is, google lol, but what it does is moves stuff on your Ram to this Swap thing, but android has its own methods, so Swap is only nessesary if you plan playing heavy games, and with apps like SWAPPER2, that you need in order to enable Swap on your phone, it can create a Swap file that just sits on your card, that acts like a partition without the hassle of you actually partioning anything.
EXT- they mean EXT3 or EXT4 which is a linux format, which in android case, you make your sd card into two parts, one the ordinary FAT32 part which is what you current SD card is, and another EXT part, on which with scripts, or even better LINK2SD, you move all your user apps 2, its similar to the APP2SD you use now, but it moves Dalvick cache and libraries, which APP2sd doesnt, so it saves more room on your internal phone memory, as you are actually moving the ENTIRE app to the sd card, say you want to move Angry Birds to SD using APP2SD, you will notice something like 5MB is still left on your internal memory, with LINK2SD it wont be left.
Also EXT partitions can not be seen by windows, so when you mount your phone as external usb drive, you can still use all the apps you moved to SD card, were is you wont be able to do that with APP2SD.
But yes in short EXT partition on your sd card, just splits your physical SD card into 2 virtual SD cards =)

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neko95 said:
> if ur using amonra recovery .. you could simply partition sd card
> leave swap to 32
> partition size.. ur choice
> if ur not planing to use ungaze data2sd
> convert it to ext2-ext3
> covert ext3 to ext4 (ext4 is better and cm7 supports it)
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hey neko im stucked...i partitioned swap to 32 and ext to 512 successfully..but i cant partition ext2 - ext3 or ext3 to ext4
i am using Amonra recovery..it says "Oops something went wrong.CHech recovery log..."
I need ur help