Resize partition

[Guest Cass67]

Anyone resized their partitions using clockwork mod .. any reason why i should not ? I find /system is taking up too much space .. 128mb would more than enough .. leaving 128mb more for data.. see any issues with doing that ?

Cheers

Edited December 17, 2010 by Cass67

[Guest Phoenix Silver]

apps are in system

if you would want to install new apps ?

[Guest rjm2k]

apps are in system

if you would want to install new apps ?

Only the stock apps are in system, without re-mounting rw and using adb etc you can't normally put apps on there. Apps from the market go into the data partition so it would be handy to make it bigger.

[Guest Phoenix Silver]

oki thanks for the info.

is it possible to use linux app to resize the phone partition ?

[Guest Tom G]

Anyone resized their partitions using clockwork mod .. any reason why i should not ? I find /system is taking up too much space .. 128mb would more than enough .. leaving 128mb more for data.. see any issues with doing that ?

Cheers

AFAIK ClockworkMod can't resize the nand partitions.

The partitions are set in the firmware and then picked up by the kernel. You can see the partition table layout in the bootloader output I uploaded the other day (in the rs232 thread). It may be possible to change the partition boundaries by hardcoding them in the kernel, but that would break things like fastboot (it would see the partitions as specified in the firmware, so flashing things would cause problems).

If we can figure out how to dump the firmware and reflash it then it may be possible to resize the partitions (I think this is very possible).

Another option would be to move things from /data to /system to use the space more effectively. You could probably write an app that moves apps between /system/app and /data/app (check the market, there might already be one).

The recently leaked chinese zte froyo rom had a system partiton well over 128mb, so that could be a bit small. The rom I'm playing with at the moment is 109MB without Gapps.

[Guest oh!dougal]

Anyone resized their partitions using clockwork mod .. any reason why i should not ? ...

Since ClockworkMod partitioning is known NOT to work for the sdcard, I for one would not dream of trying to use it for re-partitioning the phone's flash.

What is a brick worth?

[Guest oh!dougal]

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Another option would be to move things from /data to /system to use the space more effectively.

You could probably write an app that moves apps between /system/app and /data/app (check the market, there might already be one).

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Couldn't you just add the apps' apks to the apps directory in your (rom) zip file, then reflash the zip?

[Guest IronDoc]

Couldn't you just add the apps' apks to the apps directory in your (rom) zip file, then reflash the zip?

This is what I've been doing. You can also use adb to pull .apks from /data/app/ and push to /system/app/. If you want a quicker process but don't know how to create your own update script etc, adding the /system/app drectory in a framework .zip should work fine (you could remove /system/framework too). It would be nice if there were an application to automate this but I couldn't find one.

[Guest Cass67]

Thanks all for the comments and info, my partition layout with the modaco 2.2 alpha 3 is as follows

# busybox df -h |grep mtd

/dev/block/mtdblock5 207.5M 127.7M 79.8M 62% /system

/dev/block/mtdblock6 208.1M 186.0M 22.1M 89% /data

/dev/block/mtdblock7 1.5M 1.1M 380.0K 75% /persist

/dev/block/mtdblock4 41.3M 1.1M 40.1M 3% /cache

I see lots of wastage there .. would be good to reconfig these, resizing system downwards and data upwards, also removing cache as its never used due to the config in build.prop ..

I like the idea of dumping the fw and resizing from there .. Moving stuff via adb seems too .. manual for my liking .. suppose i could write a script to do it for me but thats not the most elegant solution i don't think, although it would probably be fine.. best to find out how to make it proper. Id have thought it could be done in recover or fastboot mode .. Ahh well.. Shame....

Cheers