To use A2SD, you should partition your SD card to have a FAT32 partition first, then an EXT3 partition second. Ext4 is NOT supported

[Guest vincedoggy]

the title tell everything. iam new to android, i just baked a custom rom in the online kitchen for my htc desirethat have the option a2sd but "To use A2SD, you should partition your SD card to have a FAT32 partition first, then an EXT3 partition second. Ext4 is NOT supported "

how to make this work on my 8g sd card, i have try to partition my card with Rom manager set ext 512mb swap 0 but this didnt work.

somebody please explain or can give the guide how to do it. thx in advance.

[Guest Asselberghs]

the title tell everything. iam new to android, i just baked a custom rom in the online kitchen for my htc desirethat have the option a2sd but "To use A2SD, you should partition your SD card to have a FAT32 partition first, then an EXT3 partition second. Ext4 is NOT supported "

how to make this work on my 8g sd card, i have try to partition my card with Rom manager set ext 512mb swap 0 but this didnt work.

somebody please explain or can give the guide how to do it. thx in advance.

Hi m8:=)

You have to either use a partition manager under Windows or the easiest thing, I´d say, download Ubuntu desktop iso, version 10.10 I believe.

Burn it and boot on the CD.

In the menu go like this:

System>Administration>GParted Partition Editor

In the upper right corner will be something like /dev/sda or sdb or something with the space on the drive in parenthesis by default it will select your primary harddrive.

Plug in your Android phone via USB, now you should be able to select that as a "Drive" with as much space as is on your SD card in your phone.

By default your SD card should be partitioned FAT32.

Right click the partition in the list view, and select resize.

In the new box that pops up enter a value in "free space following" this will be what you are going to partition into an ext3 partition that you can use for App2SD

If memory serves me right the new space will be marked unpartitioned or something to indicate the new space have no file system.

Right click it in the list, and go format to>ext3 and it should start partitioning.

When this is done you should be set and ready to use Apps2SD.

I hope this helped.

Kind Regards

Asselberghs

Update: I´d advice you as I was advised to make a 1 GB ext3 partition as some data in all apps will be put on internal space no matter what, so if you make your app2SD partition too big you will run out of internal space regardless of the size of the ext3 partition.

Edited November 11, 2010 by Asselberghs

[Guest volatile_ink]

If your baking ROM's I assume you've rooted and have a custom recovery installed?

If so, just partition your SD card from recovery. By far the easiest method. :rolleyes:

Edited November 12, 2010 by volatile_ink

[Guest Asselberghs]

If your baking ROM's I assume you've rooted and have a custom recovery installed?

If so, just partition your SD card from recovery. By far the easiest method. :rolleyes:

It can do that? DOH, cool. It seems I haven´t had a good enough look around in clockworkmod/psfmod.

[Guest volatile_ink]

It can do that?

Yep, AmonRa can partition and upgrade ext to ext3 and ext4.

Also has the ability to wipe just the ext partition, handy when you need to do a factory-reset but don't want to touch the FAT partition.

Used to use Parted in ADB back on my hero.. pain in the a*se :rolleyes:

[Guest Asselberghs]

Yep, AmonRa can partition and upgrade ext to ext3 and ext4.

Also has the ability to wipe just the ext partition, handy when you need to do a factory-reset but don't want to touch the FAT partition.

Used to use Parted in ADB back on my hero.. pain in the a*se :rolleyes:

Ah I´ve got some partitioning of SD card under advanced, cool:) thanks of the tip:) don´t dare play around now though since all is in nice order and theres a bit of data on the card.

But it might come in handy if I need to help others achieve what I´ve achieved:)

I have found that trying to boot Ubuntu live cd can be a bitch hehe.

[Guest malooga]

If your baking ROM's I assume you've rooted and have a custom recovery installed?

If so, just partition your SD card from recovery. By far the easiest method. :rolleyes:

I've only got clockworkmod recovery and it doesn't do partitions i don't think, rom manager wont do them either for me. I just get a warning triangle when i try and when i press the power button it goes into my recovery as normal.

[Guest volatile_ink]

@malooga: Switch to AmonRa.

[Guest malooga]

@malooga: Switch to AmonRa.

I managed to get a 512mb partition using rom manager on my ZTE Blade, i would like a larger partition though. I've now got ubuntu dual booting on my pc, could i increase my partition without losing anything?

[Guest volatile_ink]

I managed to get a 512mb partition using rom manager on my ZTE Blade, i would like a larger partition though. I've now got ubuntu dual booting on my pc, could i increase my partition without losing anything?

I like the path of least resistance. Do a nandroid back-up, copy the contents of the SD card to your PC, re-partition the sd card using AmonRa, copy the contents back and nandroid restore only the ext partition. Sit back, reboot and have a beer/coffee/tea/sprite.

[Guest malooga]

I like the path of least resistance. Do a nandroid back-up, copy the contents of the SD card to your PC, re-partition the sd card using AmonRa, copy the contents back and nandroid restore only the ext partition. Sit back, reboot and have a beer/coffee/tea/sprite.

How do i change from clockwork to amon ra? Without losing anything?

[Guest volatile_ink]

How do i change from clockwork to amon ra? Without losing anything?

Here's the LINK to the new version of AmonRa.

Just follow the instructions on the page. :rolleyes:

Edited November 16, 2010 by volatile_ink