I have a xperia u, which has not external SD card slot..
Data partition is MUCH bigger than what I need (I'm using 500mb of 2gb) and I want to move obb files to data partition to free some space in SD partition..
Is that possible?
You might try to move the file to the data partition and then create a symlink where the file was originally.
From a shell with root access:
# ln -s /your/data/partition/filename.obb /original/place/filename.obb
I'm doing the same moving apk and dalvik-cache but I have the problem that after reboot files are still there but the app is disabled.
You can check it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2597924
I would suggest to try it on an app that it's not important for the system and I don't assume any responsability
P.S.
partition where you create symlink must be ext2/3/4
I think I understand how this works.. Lets say symlinks are some kind of 'windows direct access' for files that can be recognized by the system.. Am I right?
How can I figure out what format are my partitions?
I want to move /mnt/sdcard/Android/obb/com.package.name/file.obb to /data/data/com.package.name/file.obb
Assuming that partitions are in the correct format, I'll have to move files with a root file browser, then connect phone with debug on and type this:
-adb shell
-su
-ln -s /data/data/com.package.name/file.obb /mnt/sdcard/Android/obb/com.package.name/file.obb
Is that ok?
Yest that's the use, I don't know about "windows direct access" because I'm linux user
To check how is your partition formatted there are different ways from console but I just tried this app and it works:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cls.partition
If both partitions are ext2/3/4 remember also to set the same user, group and permissions, you can do that copying the file from shell.
The whole sequence should look like this:
Code:
$ adb shell
$ su
# cp -a /mnt/sdcard/Android/obb/com.package.name/file.obb /data/data/com.package.name/file.obb
# rm /mnt/sdcard/Android/obb/com.package.name/file.obb
# ln -s /data/data/com.package.name/file.obb /mnt/sdcard/Android/obb/com.package.name/file.obb
cp - a to copy preserving permissions and rm to remove the file.
/data is ext4.. /mnt/sdcard is vfat D=
No symlink then
I never used it but you can still mount bind folders (not files) in fat, something similar to symlink:
Code:
$ adb shell
$ su
# mkdir /data/data/com.package.name/obb/
# cp -a /mnt/sdcard/Android/obb/com.package.name/* /data/data/com.package.name/[B]obb/[/B]
# rm -r /mnt/sdcard/Android/obb/com.package.name/*
# mount -o bind /data/data/com.package.name/[B]obb/[/B] /mnt/sdcard/Android/obb/com.package.name/
if it works you need to find a way to excute that on boot maybe with a init script.
And if there is not crucial data you could even bind all the obb folder together like:
Code:
# mount -o bind /data/data/com.package.name/[B]obb/[/B] /mnt/sdcard/Android/obb/
You can also check this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
Double check everything because I never tried it
Is it possible to add init.d support to my current rom and execute a sh file from it to initialize bind on boot?
No idea sorry
You can try asking in your phone section: http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-u
I found how to add init.d support!
Not sure if it works for any device/rom/kernel, but it worked for my Xperia U with GingerBeanSS v3.5 (Sony GB based)..
If anyone is interested, go to this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32716432
Now I suppose I can create a "BindOBB.sh" with the script you mentioned before in any place of /system, and make a "bindobb" file in /system/etc/init.d/ to execute that script..
So theoretically binding folders should work on every boot!
I used windows my entire life.. I'm not completely sure about linux scripts..
Sorry about making so much questions!
I really appreciate your help!
No problem I'm glad if I can help.
Init script is usually named starting with two numbers like: 00script, 20script, 99script that should give the order scripts are excuted.
For the script itself you need to follow the sample you donwloaded so it will be something like this:
Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
#Comment
busybox mount -o bind /data/data/obb/ /mnt/sdcard/Android/obb/
This is to mount all obb folder or, if you want to mount only some, you can write them all in the script or keep a list of packages in another file and make the script read that.
Remember to make a backup and you might try first with only one package
Ok, I've understood everything (thanks google! ) and done it..
mount -o bind[...] isn't executed by init script.. Maybe a syntax error as it is my first time doing it..
The same command (without 'busybox' at first, of course) seems to work via ADB, because in SolidExplorer when I go to obb folder BEFORE running the script it is empy, but after running it all packages' folders and files appear!
Now problem is that when running a game that need obb data, it closes by itselfs (no FC nor 'missing data' warning)..
Same problem with a 3rd party TTS engine that needs obb data too..
The first problem could be that when you try to execute the command partitions are not mounted yet. Check 00 script used to test if init is enabled to mount them.
Another solution could be to use a sleep command to make the script wait some seconds but the first one should do the trick.
For the second problem check permissions. You copied files as root so you need to be sure the apps can access those files as well, in fat system there is no use of users, group and permissions but moving to ext you need to check that.
To be sure you can set obb folder and all files an directories inside as 777 (rwx for all)
Let me know if it's working
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NeriL said:
I want to move /mnt/sdcard/Android/obb/ to /data/data/
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you can easy create a directory bind using luckypatcher with the folder with obb and the folder where you would like to put it
remember to reboot or rescan your sd else it wont work
i use it to play asphalt and fifa
MrCrayon said:
The first problem could be that when you try to execute the command partitions are not mounted yet. Check 00 script used to test if init is enabled to mount them.
Another solution could be to use a sleep command to make the script wait some seconds but the first one should do the trick.
For the second problem check permissions. You copied files as root so you need to be sure the apps can access those files as well, in fat system there is no use of users, group and permissions but moving to ext you need to check that.
To be sure you can set obb folder and all files an directories inside as 777 (rwx for all)
Let me know if it's working
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I deleted my custom init script and wrote following command at the last line of '00test' script:
busybox mount -o bind /data/obb/ /mnt/sdcard/Android/obb/
Mount then worked fine
(By the way, my custom script was named '99bindobb', so it was supposedly executed after everything else)
Also checked permissions: /data/obb/ and com.package.name folders inside it were rwxrwxrwx, but files inside were rw-------!
Changed permission of files to rwxrwxrwx..
Now everything works flawlessly at each boot!
Thank you so much! =D =D
You saved about 500Mb of my 4Gb!
And also I learned a lot about linux scripts, busybox and file system permissions!
You are welcome
For the 99 script that only define the order between the user init scripts so it still depends when they are called during boot.
Enjoy the power of Linux
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Hi MrCrayon..! I'm here again
I changed rom and did the same as before to use /data insted of /mnt/sdcard for apps files..
This is exactly what I did:
I copied the script I used to sd (my edited 00test), changed rom (switched from Sony based GB rom to Sony Stock ICS rom), added init.d support (/data/Test.log indicates that it works), copied script to /system/etc/init.d/, changed script permissions to 777, created folders /data/AndroidData/ and /data/obb/ with 777 permissions and moved files from sd folders to custom folders in /data..
Finally updated busybox just in case
Script doesn't work, but executing 'mount -o bind' commands from ADB does! How can I fix that?
This is my init script:
#!/system/bin/sh
#Init.d Test
if [ -e /data/Test.log ]; then
rm /data/Test.log
fi
echo Ryuinferno @ XDA 2013 > /data/Test.log
echo Init.d is working !!! >> /data/Test.log
busybox mount -o bind /data/obb/ /mnt/sdcard/Android/obb/
busybox mount -o bind /data/AndroidData/ /mnt/sdcard/Android/data/
busybox set_perm_recursive(0, 0, 0777, 0777, /data/AndroidData, /data/obb)
Does anybody know why my hosts file gets reset after a reboot no matter whether I change with adaway or adblock or if I manually replace the hosts file myself and set to read only. Have searched about and only solution I read about was get a custom kernel. Although I am already on a custom kitkat ROM and using dorimanx kernel for galaxy s2. Also never had problems with hosts resetting on jb or ICS. Even creating a symlink to data/data/hosts doesn't work. On reboot the symlink just gets replaced with the original useless hosts file.
Sorry to bump but it is irritating and can't find a solution.
just some hints,
hosts file is located on /system partition which should be read only mounted during runtime.
check:
Code:
# mount | grep /system
/dev/block/mmcblk0p9 /system ext4 ro,seclabel,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
ro is ok. If so, the file can be changed only during boot (some init script) or later by app with root permission.
check if some init script is not involved:
Code:
# grep hosts /init*
Code:
#grep hosts /system/etc/init.d/*
Is there any output of the commands? I'm on i9100/CM10.2 and there is no output.
Then would be good to revoke root permissions to all apps (not unroot) and see if the issue is still there.
and also check the time of last change of the file:
Code:
ls -l /system/etc/hosts
is it realy during boot?
After spending entirely too much time on this I finally have a working solution. Save the contents of this script to your internal SD card. Ensure the last line is a blank carriage return.
Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
sleep 10
mount -o rw,remount /system
cp /storage/emulated/0/Download/working/hosts /system/etc
Install Script Manager (SManager), and set this script as: on boot, executable, as root. This will then copy your custom "hosts" file under your SDcard to /system/etc after 10 seconds.
Using this script through init.d didn't work for me, which I guess means whatever was over-writing my "hosts" file was doing after the init.d process.
Definitely remount system partition to read only again. Append following line to your script:
Code:
mount -o ro,remount /system
d0gd3v said:
Definitely remount system partition to read only again. Append following line to your script:
Code:
mount -o ro,remount /system
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good call, thanks
I have a second partition on my SDCARD at /dev/block/mmcblk1p2, all I want to do is ensure that it is always mounted as /storage/sdcard0/mount seems simple I can do it in 5 second on Linux, on Android, it seems impossible I can try to add a hack, but that is lost every-time I update the ROM. There has to be some simple way to do it, that I'm missing. The best I have is to load up a terminal emulated su to root and run: mount -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /storage/sdcard0/mount
Now in theory, the following would work but for 2 things:
mkdir /storage/sdcard0/mount
su - root -c 'mount -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /storage/sdcard0/mount'
But for the fact the Android's su does not understand -c so that is out. as well as the fact that non-root users (u0_a216 in my case) can not access /storage/sdcard0.
All I want is a simple way to ensure that this is always mounted where I want it when I need it, yet this simple task is nearly impossible it appears on Android, so why is that?
The issue here is that the fat32 partition does not support large files so I need a separate partition that does such as ext4, in reality if the external sdcard could just be ext4 there would be no issues, and it would be faster, but that is Android for you.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
ERIC
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Ok, I have this mostly working with juicessh and tasker now for now
I have 2 shell scripts:
mountDev.sh:
Code:
mkdir /storage/sdcard2
chmod 777 /storage/sdcard2
mount -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /storage/sdcard2
umountDev.sh
Code:
umount /storage/sdcard2
rmdir /storage/sdcard2
In Tasker I have 2 tasks defined:
I'm using the JuiceSSH plugin to open a terminal to localhost I then execute:
To Mount:
Code:
su -l --shell=/system/bin/sh --command='cd /storage/sdcard0 ; sh ./mountDSev.sh ; exit' ; exit
To umount:
Code:
su -l --shell=/system/bin/sh --command='cd /storage/sdcard0 ; sh ./mountDSev.sh ; exit' ; exit
I then created 2 icons, 1 for each operation on the home screen. I also created a Device Boot event to automatically execute and mount the task.
This works, mostly, however even though it is root, sometimes I get errors such as /storage/ is readonly, which makes no sense since it could create the directory at boot, but can not remove the directory later on, since it is readonly. Its a minor thing currently, but annoying.
The benefit of this is it is easy to transfer between ROM images and devices without worrying about it being wiped out every-time I update. In theory it also works without init.d support being enabled. Down side is it you need Tasker and the JuiceSSH plug-in so it costs money.
Hope this helps others.
ERIC
I'm on jelly bean 4.1.2 (NeatRom 6.4) which uses /storage/extSdCard. I'd like to either create another mount point for the external sd card in /storage/sdcard1 or a symlink /storage/sdcard1 that points to /storage/extSdCard and I want that to survive after reboot. Currently it does not. I've read around but am still stuck.
The symlink trick works, but is erased after reboot. I created it as:
Code:
su
mount -o rw/remount /
ln -s /storage/extSdCard /storage/sdcard1
I tried to add a mount point by editing /etc/vold.fstab but the mount point is not created after reboot. The line I added in /etc/vold.fstab is the 2nd line here:
Code:
dev_mount sdcard1 /storage/extSdCard auto /devices/platform/s3c-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc1
dev_mount sdcard1 /storage/sdcard1 auto /devices/platform/s3c-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc1
Any clues?
Well, after some more digging around, this are some options -- but note that these also depend on which rom you're using. On NeatRom 6.4 (jelly bean 4.1.2 based on Samsung XXMS4):
There is a file /system/bin/customboot.sh where you can add commands.
Inspecting /etc/init.d/97neatrom I notice it executes "postbootinit" so you should be able to edit or create /system/bin/postbootinit and place commands in there as well.
You can also add a file in /etc/init.d, say /etc/init.d/99sdcard1 that executes commands.
NOTE 1: the root dir / is mounted as readonly at boot so if you want to add a symlink or mount point in /storage then you need to mount it as read-write first.
NOTE 2: the external sdcard dev block volume is not immediately available after boot, I had to add a 2 second delay. This is not a problem for symlink.
Symlink solution (easier, no delay waiting for block device), place the following in /etc/init.d/99sdcard1
Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
ln -s /storage/extSdCard /storage/sdcard1
ln -s /storage/extSdCard /mnt/sdcard1
ln -s /storage/sdcard0 /mnt/sdcard0
I also added standard symlinks in /mnt.
Mount solution, place the following in /etc/init.d/99sdcard1 (run "mount" first in a terminal to find out which block device in /dev/block/vold is mounted in /storage/extSdCard):
Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
sleep 2
mount -o rw,remount /
mkdir /storage/sdcard1
# /dev/block/vold/179:9 is the one mounted in /storage/extSdCard
mount -t vfat -o umask=000 /dev/block/vold/179:9 /storage/sdcard1
ln -s /storage/extSdCard /mnt/sdcard1
ln -s /storage/sdcard0 /mnt/sdcard0
The reason I needed this is that I used Cyanogenmod 11 (KitKat 4.4) for a long while and got fed up with it being very slow on my SGS2 so I came back to Jelly Bean, but I had many apps that were using /storage/sdcard1
That's "root directory" /sdcard1 and "root directory" /ext_card (just wanna avoid confusion), not /storage/sdcard1, which i do have, some apps I restored via Titanium on RR LP from stock KK depend on /sdcard1, to rebuild all databases from those apps from scratch is out of the question when there are symlinks, just need to learn how to make them work without causing a mess.
Posts I've found from the subject are old (pre-Lollipop), I would have guessed they are still good but somewhere it said it depends on the rom....
Symlink solution (easier, no delay waiting for block device), place the following in /etc/init.d/99sdcard1
Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
ln -s /storage/extSdCard /storage/sdcard1
ln -s /storage/extSdCard /mnt/sdcard1
ln -s /storage/sdcard0 /mnt/sdcard0
Don't know if this will work for me.. because symlink needs to be /sdcard1 at root
I'm not interested in creating mount points, just a symlink should do it, thanks in advance for any help.
I used the following in terminal emulator and it worked once:
Code:
ln -s /storage/sdcard1 /sdcard1
Then I created a file in /etc/init.d/99sdcard1 with that same line
Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
ln -s /storage/sdcard1 /sdcard1
Doesn't create the symlink, and when trying the command in term emu it says ln: sdcard1: Read-only file system