Ext problem.

[Guest Frankish]

Finally managed to partition my SD card without the trackpad. Apps2SD is working however when i try a Nandroid backup it fails to mount the ext partition and therefore cannot wipe the partition.

Thing is all my apps are working and definitely not on phone memory. It's not a major problem but i would like to be able to backup my EXT.

Any ideas?

[Guest squrl]

If your ext partition is EXT3 formatted, use Koush's ROM Manager from the Market, download ClockworkMOD recovery directly from the app, then select "Backup current ROM" and tada, you have a whole ROM backup, sd-ext partition included ;)

If your parition is EXT2 type, upgrade it to EXT3 via ahmgsk's or Paul's recovery, you won't lose your data.

EDIT: Your trackpad is broken? Well in that case I'm afraid you'll have no luck even with ClockworkMOD :(

Edited June 17, 2010 by squrl

[Guest Frankish]

If your ext partition is EXT3 formatted, use Koush's ROM Manager from the Market, download ClockworkMOD recovery directly from the app, then select "Backup current ROM" and tada, you have a whole ROM backup, sd-ext partition included ;)

If your parition is EXT2 type, upgrade it to EXT3 via ahmgsk's or Paul's recovery, you won't lose your data.

EDIT: Your trackpad is broken? Well in that case I'm afraid you'll have no luck even with ClockworkMOD :(

Ahh is that why my ext can't be mounted? because it's ext2? That's what i tried with ClockworkMod through RM. Is it possible to mount my ext2 partition and upgrade it through my pc? I tried upgrade_fs throught the android sdk but it said not found.

[Guest Frankish]

Am i doing something wrong. I CD to the folder containing the recovery (whilst i am in recovery) and i type "adb-windows shell". I can mount my SD card using "parted /dev/block/mmcblk0". I issue "quit" then type "upgrade_fs" but it says "upgrade_fs not found". Upgrade_fs doesn't work within parted.

I must be doing something wrong but it's getting boring now ;)

[Guest Frankish]

Ok i think the problem is the 2 recovery methods (pauls and amghsk mod) both do not contain an upgrade_fs file. I guess that's kind of needed. Any ideas?

[Guest Frankish]

Finally figured it out after stumbling through on my own. I'm shocked this community was not able to help me.

I ran amskghs recovery, then in a cmd window cd'd to amsghks recovery folder.

Ran "adb shell fs". This unmounted all partitions including sd card.

I then ran "adb shell sdparted -ufs ext3" but it hung on a confirmation window.

I started again but this time ran "adb shell sdparted -s -ufs ext3" and it upgraded my ext partition without asking me to confirm.

I now have ext3 for my a2sd and hopefully rom manager can back up my ext partition. Which makes me a lot closer to getting around my trackpad problems.

It would help loads if someone could just implement power button to confirm within recovery then i wouldn't have to stumble through lol.