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I baked a few roms from paul now all with a2sd+, but somehow apps I install aren't installed on my sd.

Maybe I partitioned my sd card wrong.

I used gparted in linux and made 3 partitions:

about 6GB fat32

about 1GB EXT2

About 30MB Swap

When I try to wipe my sdcard from recoverymode I keep getting the error it can't mount and wipe sdext

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I baked a few roms from paul now all with a2sd+, but somehow apps I install aren't installed on my sd.

Maybe I partitioned my sd card wrong.

I used gparted in linux and made 3 partitions:

about 6GB fat32

about 1GB EXT2

About 30MB Swap

When I try to wipe my sdcard from recoverymode I keep getting the error it can't mount and wipe sdext

I spent some of the weekend pulling my hair out trying to figure out how A2SD works. Although there are a lot of installation instructions, I found little information about how to actually move apps to the SD card. Ultimately I figured it all out, searching a number of Android sites...

It would be useful to know what Recovery and ROM you are using.

From what I have read the sdcard can be formatted as you have done, just make sure you do it in the order the instruction state. A far easier method is to use AmonRA's recovery if you have it installed. It will let you partition and format exactly how you have stated above all from your phone.

Remember to convert ext2 to ext3, again this can be done AmonRA's recovery.

Flash your ROM (I'm using MCR r24)

This is the bit that fixed me the most..... From here on any apps that are installed, will be stored on the SD card, although they appear to be installed on the phone. There is no special procedure to follow to push the app to sd from what I have seen.

At first I was sceptical, but after installing large apps, although the phone memory does go down a little it certainly doesn't store the whole app on the phone.

Hope this is of some help.

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