[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] typci:
Doing some research before getting back to working on the phone.

Looks like Blefish is talking about using linux's fdisk, when I was trying to use adb's fdisk. That would certainly allow me to bypass the su problem with adb. I think I got all the correct files for my linux livecd, so that shouldn't be a problem. After I'm done with my workout, I'll try it out and see how it goes. It's time to learn how to use linux.

Update: Got unbuntu working. Storage devices are all /media instead of /dev like I was expecting. But I think I'm not looking in the right place.

Plugged in phone via pink screen and 3 drives came up:

System - has system stupp (app, bin, etc, fonts, ...) - sdb12

256 MB File system - image folder with all the .img and .mbn files - sdb1

136 MB File system - has fotapkg, lost+found, recovery folders- filesystem type ext3/ext4 - I'm not sure what this is, maybe sdb6? If it was data (sdb13) then I wouldn't get the error in recovery, If it was the internal SD card the filesystem should be vfat. If someone knows better, please let me know.

For some reason I don't have permission to access the lost+found folder, or so Unbuntu tells me.

Tried to used fdisk with system, got error: I don't know how to handle files with mode 40755

Also found some recovery log files in the fotapkg and recovery folders. I'll post it here incase someone can get some more useful information out of it. Does anyone know what all these (null) mean?

Tomorrow I'll get to work on learning how to use unbuntu and fdisk.

Starting recovery on Sun Jan 6 00:03:50 1980

can't open /dev/tty0: No such file or directory

framebuffer: fd 3 (480 x 800)

recovery filesystem table

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0 /tmp ramdisk (null) (null)

1 /boot vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (null)

2 /fat vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (null)

3 /cache ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p6 (null)

4 /data_pseudo ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p13 (null)

5 /misc emmc /dev/block/mmcblk0p7 (null)

6 /recovery vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (null)

7 /HWUserData vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p14 (null)

8 /system ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 (null)

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

I:cmdline: console=ttyDCC0 androidboot.hardware=huawei androidboot.localproppath=hw/default androidboot.emmc=true androidboot.image=recovery androidboot.mode=user androidboot.baseband=msm

I:ota_move_command_file

I:Got arguments from boot message

Command: "recovery" "--wipe_data" "--wipe_cache"

Formatting /cache...

Creating filesystem with parameters:

Size: 136314880

Block size: 4096

Blocks per group: 32768

Inodes per group: 4160

Inode size: 256

Journal blocks: 1024

Label:

Blocks: 33280

Block groups: 2

Reserved block group size: 15

Created filesystem with 11/8320 inodes and 1585/33280 blocks

E:failed to mount /data_pseudo (No such file or directory)

E:failed to mount /data_pseudo (No such file or directory)

Formatting /data...

Need size of filesystem

E:format_volume: make_extf4fs failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p13

E:failed to mount /data_pseudo (No such file or directory)

E:failed to mount /data_pseudo (No such file or directory)

Formatting /cache...

Creating filesystem with parameters:

Size: 136314880

Block size: 4096

Blocks per group: 32768

Inodes per group: 4160

Inode size: 256

Journal blocks: 1024

Label:

Blocks: 33280

Block groups: 2

Reserved block group size: 15

Created filesystem with 11/8320 inodes and 1585/33280 blocks

Data wipe failed.

wipe internal sdcard fail.