Can't get A2SD to work :-s

[Guest Need_A_Username]

Hi everyone, I'm pretty new in all this, I know how to use recovery and adb, and have the MCR ROM.

The problem is, I can't get apps2sd to work, first I tried partitioning my sd card with adb but it didn't work.

I thought maybe I had done something wrong, so I used the partitioning tool in the amon ra recovery, but when I download something from the market, it doesn't come onto my sd card, and my internal free space drops.

Do I expect something from A2SD, or did I miss something?

Thanks in advance,

[Guest Arthur Hucksake]

Hi everyone, I'm pretty new in all this, I know how to use recovery and adb, and have the MCR ROM.

The problem is, I can't get apps2sd to work, first I tried partitioning my sd card with adb but it didn't work.

I thought maybe I had done something wrong, so I used the partitioning tool in the amon ra recovery, but when I download something from the market, it doesn't come onto my sd card, and my internal free space drops.

Do I expect something from A2SD, or did I miss something?

Thanks in advance,

I had the same question actually.

Your find your internal memory drops due to the app using a cache, but it installs into a partition on the SD card you can't actually see.

After you start installing lots of apps it becomes apparent its not all being chucked onto your phones internal memory.

I used Amon RA too btw.

[Guest stevenz]

If you're worried, use adb shell or a file manager (Linda/Astro/eStrong etc) to check if /data/app is symlinked to /system/sd/app or indeed if /system/sd/app has apps in it. If it does, then you're in business.

Basically, if you've go the ext partition and have installed an MCR ROM, then you pretty much have to actively _try_ and disable a2sd, otherwise it'll happily do its thing and run in the background.

[Guest Need_A_Username]

Ty for the responses.

When I check /system/sd in linda file manager, the sd folder is empty. But then I went into the /system/sd/app folder using terminal, and then I used "ls -l" and it returned all of my applications. So I guess they're stored correct? :-) ^^

[Guest brosenz]

Ty for the responses.

When I check /system/sd in linda file manager, the sd folder is empty. But then I went into the /system/sd/app folder using terminal, and then I used "ls -l" and it returned all of my applications. So I guess they're stored correct? :-) ^^

I've been doing some research and found that the apps are being installed in the /system/sd/app folder, and after checking with df the size of the folder will grow as I install apps, I did some test with big apps like Google earth and maps. What I've noticed as well from the df command, is that the /data folder will grow, specifically the dalvik-cache folder within data (/data/dalvik-cache), meaning as I install more apps both directories will grow size, not in the same proportion, meaning the size in /system/sd/app of the files for Google Earth and Maps is much bigger than the size in /data/dalvik-cache, any idea why is this happening ?, or maybe I should not worry because dalvik-cache is just cache and will increase and decrease as needed ?, thanks a lot

I have a Nexus One using MoDaCo Alpha r21 with a 16GB SD card partitioned with 1G ext3 partition and the rest is FAT32