[RECOVERY] CWM-based Recovery 5.0.2.7-R2

[Guest morckx]

That isnt added by me, it's part of the source. It means that if the external SD is missing/not dectected, it will use internal instead.

No, I don't think that's true. It is a provision for sd cards where the file system is directly on the unpartitioned device (/dev/block/mmcblk1) instead of on the first partition (/dev/block/mmcblk1p1) as it is the case with my sd card.

I also expressed myself unclearly, the line in /etc/recovery.fstab:

/sdcard     vfat     /dev/block/mmcblk1p1     /dev/block/mmcblk1

comes from Paul's 4.0.0.5. The corresponding one in 4.0.1.4 R2 (ext) is:

/sdcard        vfat        /dev/block/mmcblk1p1    NULL

I guess that's why I need to mount my sd card manually in 4.0.1.4 R2 (ext) (with mount /dev/block/mmcblk1 /sdcard), while it's automatically mounted in Pauls 4.0.0.5

Anyway, thanks for your answer and the easiest and best thing to do is probably to repartition my sdcard :-)

M.

Edited August 2, 2011 by morckx

[Guest Rusty!]

Ah I see what you're saying, although until now I have never seen an SD card set up in such a way. I would repartition it too, just to fit in with the norm.

[Guest wfd]

Something strange happening when I'am trying to backup CM7 via CWM 4.0.1.5 or 4.0.1.4r3 external.

CWM writes data into data.img until available free space on sd card. Free space on sdcard 1.4GB, data volume 318.4M

df -h output:

Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on

tmpfs 186.5M 32.0K 186.5M 0% /dev

tmpfs 186.5M 0 186.5M 0% /mnt/asec

tmpfs 186.5M 0 186.5M 0% /mnt/obb

tmpfs 186.5M 0 186.5M 0% /mnt/asec

tmpfs 186.5M 0 186.5M 0% /mnt/extasec

/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 338.9M 154.3M 167.2M 48% /system

/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 1.5G 318.4M 1.1G 21% /data

/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 62.0M 4.0M 54.7M 7% /cache

/dev/block/mmcblk0p6 2.4M 2.0M 410.0K 83% /lgdrm

backup directory content during backup:

/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2011-08-23.10.17.27 # ls -l&&du -h

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8388608 Aug 23 10:17 boot.img

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1309986816 Aug 23 10:23 data.img

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20971520 Aug 23 10:17 recovery.img

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 159572160 Aug 23 10:17 system.img

1.4G .

df -h from CWM during backup:

Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on

tmpfs 186.5M 32.0K 186.5M 0% /dev

/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 62.0M 4.0M 54.7M 7% /cache

/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 7.6G 7.6G 0 100% /sdcard

/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 1.5G 318.7M 1.1G 21% /data

[Guest Rusty!]

Well that's odd, mine backs up /data (600MB-ish) no problem.

[Guest wfd]

I found the problem. There was some broken crap in /data/lost+found directory. Backup /data stuff and format data volume has solved this problem.

It is posiible to exclude lost+found during backup?

And format /data in Mounts and Storage menu does'nt realy formatting storage, its only delete all stored stuff. I formatted and converted storage by hands.

[Guest Rusty!]

Finally updated!

[Guest wfd]

Finally updated!

Great! Thank you! Its compatible with 4.0.1.5 backups?

Edited September 23, 2011 by wfd

[Guest Rusty!]

I believe so, but not the other way around.

[Guest Rusty!]

Update as new CWM supports backup/restore from internal storage.

[Guest Щачло карпа]

The download link to v5.0.2.7 is broken. Could you please fix it? Thanks.

Edited November 2, 2011 by Щачло карпа

[Guest Rusty!]

Yeah, all sorted.

[Guest Щачло карпа]

Thanks rusty!

One Question: I've been using cwm 4.0.0.9 before. I noticed, that my 5.0.2.7 backups are much smaller, e.g. the data.ext3.tar compared to the old data.img is 30mb smaller. Is this a normal behavior? Thanks for clarification in advance!!

[Guest Rusty!]

.tar = compressed ;)

[Guest Щачло карпа]

.tar = compressed ;)

I've to disagree. Tar itself does not compress anything (see http://en.wikipedia....8file_format%29).

I'll extract both backups and try to find the difference.

Edit:

On my phone in /system/bin are symlinks, e.g. cat points to toolbox.

Backup with 4.0.0.9:

Identically to phone: /system/bin/cat => toolbox

Backup with 5.0.2.7:

No symlink, the regular file is saved instead of just the symlink.

Conclusion: in 5.0.2.7 all symlinks in /system/bin are replaced by their regular files.

Further more, in 5.0.2.7 symlinks in /system/xbin are completely ignored.

Edited November 4, 2011 by Щачло карпа

[Guest Rusty!]

You're right, I was talking about .tar.gz when the backups are just .tar :huh:

Not sure about the symlinks being ignored though, last time I extracted one of my system.ext4.tar files, WinRAR threw a shitfit about them.

[Guest Щачло карпа]

I've used WinRAR 4.01. Works like a charm.

[Guest Rusty!]

Updated to fix advanced restore.