[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Gabbyii:
8 gig partition info

Hello - I just stumbled across your post. So over the weekend I re-partitioned my 8 gig nook tablet. Over under the CM13 thread is a link to re-partitioning the 16 gig version. I've added my notes to that document but don't know if the have been posted yet (I've read we're not suppose to post links to external links so I'll let you look that up). Anyway in case the owner hasn't okayed my addition - I'll paste my notes below. Also, my notes below are updated as I went back and increased the size again on my system partition and have not yet updated that google doc with the new sizes.

Anyway if you take his information and instructions on using parted with what I've posted there and below - hopefully you can piece together what you need. Good Luck!

To Begin following the instructions for the 16 gig version and deciding to resize the system and cache partitions - this is what I did:

(I'm using TWRP 3.0.2-0)

parted p

Model: MMC M8G2FB (sd/mmc)

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 7818MB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 131kB 262kB 131kB xloader

2 262kB 524kB 262kB bootloader

3 524kB 16.3MB 15.7MB recovery

4 16.8MB 33.6MB 16.8MB boot

5 33.6MB 83.9MB 50.3MB fat32 rom

6 83.9MB 134MB 50.3MB fat32 bootdata

7 134MB 522MB 388MB ext4 factory

8 522MB 1164MB 642MB ext4 system (going to add 1792 MB so change 1164 MB to 2956 MB)

9 1164MB 1611MB 447MB ext4 cache (going to add 512 MB so change 1164 to 2956 and 1611 to 3915)

10 1611MB 5620MB 4010MB fat32 media (merging media and userdata into userdata so change 1611 to 3915 and 5620 to 7734 (or actually 100%))

11 5620MB 7734MB 2114MB ext4 userdata

(parted)

rm 11

rm 10

got -> Error: Partition /dev/block/mmcblk0p10 is being used. You must unmount it before

you modify it with Parted.

exited parted back to prompt.

# umount /dev/block/mmcblk0p10 (this returned me to the # prompt - no errors out any output)

run parted again:

~ # /tmp/parted /dev/block/mmcblk0

rm 10

rm 9

Error: Partition /dev/block/mmcblk0p9 is being used. You must unmount it before

you modify it with Parted.

exited parted again

~ # umount /dev/block/mmcblk0p9

restarted parted

rm 9

rm 8

parted p now looks like this:

(parted) p

p

Model: MMC M8G2FB (sd/mmc)

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 7818MB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 131kB 262kB 131kB xloader

2 262kB 524kB 262kB bootloader

3 524kB 16.3MB 15.7MB recovery

4 16.8MB 33.6MB 16.8MB boot

5 33.6MB 83.9MB 50.3MB fat32 rom

6 83.9MB 134MB 50.3MB fat32 bootdata

7 134MB 522MB 388MB ext4 factory

(parted)

Now start recreating the partitions - I tried to make them f2fs but parted didn't know this format so I used ext4.

(parted) mkpart

mkpart

Partition name? []? system

system

File system type? [ext2]? f2fs

f2fs

/tmp/parted: invalid token: f2fs

File system type? [ext2]? ext4

ext4

Start? 522MB

522MB

End? 2956MB

2956MB

It didn't name is so

(parted) name 8 system

(parted) p

p

Model: MMC M8G2FB (sd/mmc)

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 7818MB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 131kB 262kB 131kB xloader

2 262kB 524kB 262kB bootloader

3 524kB 16.3MB 15.7MB recovery

4 16.8MB 33.6MB 16.8MB boot

5 33.6MB 83.9MB 50.3MB fat32 rom

6 83.9MB 134MB 50.3MB fat32 bootdata

7 134MB 522MB 388MB ext4 factory

8 522MB 2956MB 2434MB ext4 system

(parted)

(parted) mkpart

mkpart

Partition name? []? cache

cache

File system type? [ext2]? ext4

ext4

Start? 2956MB

2164MB

End? 3915MB

3915MB

(parted) p

p

Model: MMC M8G2FB (sd/mmc)

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 7818MB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 131kB 262kB 131kB xloader

2 262kB 524kB 262kB bootloader

3 524kB 16.3MB 15.7MB recovery

4 16.8MB 33.6MB 16.8MB boot

5 33.6MB 83.9MB 50.3MB fat32 rom

6 83.9MB 134MB 50.3MB fat32 bootdata

7 134MB 522MB 388MB ext4 factory

8 522MB 2956MB 2434MB ext4 system

9 2956MB 3915MB 959MB

again it didn't name it or show the partiton type so typed in:

(parted ) name 9 cache

(parted) p

p

Model: MMC M8G2FB (sd/mmc)

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 7818MB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 131kB 262kB 131kB xloader

2 262kB 524kB 262kB bootloader

3 524kB 16.3MB 15.7MB recovery

4 16.8MB 33.6MB 16.8MB boot

5 33.6MB 83.9MB 50.3MB fat32 rom

6 83.9MB 134MB 50.3MB fat32 bootdata

7 134MB 522MB 388MB ext4 factory

8 522MB 2956MB 2434MB ext4 system

9 2956MB 3915MB 959MB cache

(parted) mkpart

mkpart

Partition name? []? userdata

userdata

File system type? [ext2]? ext4

ext4

Start? 3915MB

3123MB

End? 100%

100%

Warning: You requested a partition from 3123MB to 7818MB.

The closest location we can manage is 3123MB to 7734MB.

Is this still acceptable to you?

Yes/No? Yes

Yes

(parted) p

p

Model: MMC M8G2FB (sd/mmc)

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 7818MB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 131kB 262kB 131kB xloader

2 262kB 524kB 262kB bootloader

3 524kB 16.3MB 15.7MB recovery

4 16.8MB 33.6MB 16.8MB boot

5 33.6MB 83.9MB 50.3MB fat32 rom

6 83.9MB 134MB 50.3MB fat32 bootdata

7 134MB 522MB 388MB ext4 factory

8 522MB 2164MB 1642MB ext4 system

9 2164MB 3123MB 959MB cache

10 3123MB 7734MB 4611MB

(parted) name 10 userdata

(parted) p

p

Model: MMC M8G2FB (sd/mmc)

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 7818MB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 131kB 262kB 131kB xloader

2 262kB 524kB 262kB bootloader

3 524kB 16.3MB 15.7MB recovery

4 16.8MB 33.6MB 16.8MB boot

5 33.6MB 83.9MB 50.3MB fat32 rom

6 83.9MB 134MB 50.3MB fat32 bootdata

7 134MB 522MB 388MB ext4 factory

8 522MB 2164MB 1642MB ext4 system

9 2164MB 3123MB 959MB cache

10 3123MB 7734MB 4611MB userdata

(parted)

Named it but they still didn't show partition types for cache and userdata.

Format userdata using: (mkfs.ext4 was not on my device)

mkfs.f2fs /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/userdata

(These steps aren't necessary but I was going for speed) -> Rebooted back into TWRP or else it thinks there is still a partition #11. Then I went to Wipe/Advanced Wipe/Repair or Change file system and I individually changed cache, data and system to f2fs (Installing CM 13 changed system back to ext4).

I went to install CM 13 and got an error related to partition stuff (sorry I should have wrote it down) - anyway going into wipe and doing a factory reset fixed this for me (might be dependant on previously installed ROM? not sure but this worked for me)

Installed CM13 again and worked fine. It works great until I install pico gapps and then I'm having all kinds of issues still but I was having these before repartitioning so it's not related to doing this. I used both the most recent nightly builds as of 7/24/16 for cm13 and pico open gapps. I haven't tried going back to previous stable builds yet.

To Begin following the instructions for the 16 gig version and deciding to resize the system and cache partitions - this is what I did:

(I'm using TWRP 3.0.2-0)

parted p

Model: MMC M8G2FB (sd/mmc)

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 7818MB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 131kB 262kB 131kB xloader

2 262kB 524kB 262kB bootloader

3 524kB 16.3MB 15.7MB recovery

4 16.8MB 33.6MB 16.8MB boot

5 33.6MB 83.9MB 50.3MB fat32 rom

6 83.9MB 134MB 50.3MB fat32 bootdata

7 134MB 522MB 388MB ext4 factory

8 522MB 1164MB 642MB ext4 system (going to add 1792 MB so change 1164 MB to 2956 MB)

9 1164MB 1611MB 447MB ext4 cache (going to add 512 MB so change 1164 to 2956 and 1611 to 3915)

10 1611MB 5620MB 4010MB fat32 media (merging media and userdata into userdata so change 1611 to 3915 and 5620 to 7734 (or actually 100%))

11 5620MB 7734MB 2114MB ext4 userdata

(parted)

rm 11

rm 10

got -> Error: Partition /dev/block/mmcblk0p10 is being used. You must unmount it before

you modify it with Parted.

exited parted back to prompt.

# umount /dev/block/mmcblk0p10 (this returned me to the # prompt - no errors out any output)

run parted again:

~ # /tmp/parted /dev/block/mmcblk0

rm 10

rm 9

Error: Partition /dev/block/mmcblk0p9 is being used. You must unmount it before

you modify it with Parted.

exited parted again

~ # umount /dev/block/mmcblk0p9

restarted parted

rm 9

rm 8

parted p now looks like this:

(parted) p

p

Model: MMC M8G2FB (sd/mmc)

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 7818MB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 131kB 262kB 131kB xloader

2 262kB 524kB 262kB bootloader

3 524kB 16.3MB 15.7MB recovery

4 16.8MB 33.6MB 16.8MB boot

5 33.6MB 83.9MB 50.3MB fat32 rom

6 83.9MB 134MB 50.3MB fat32 bootdata

7 134MB 522MB 388MB ext4 factory

(parted)

Now start recreating the partitions - I tried to make them f2fs but parted didn't know this format so I used ext4.

(parted) mkpart

mkpart

Partition name? []? system

system

File system type? [ext2]? f2fs

f2fs

/tmp/parted: invalid token: f2fs

File system type? [ext2]? ext4

ext4

Start? 522MB

522MB

End? 2956MB

2956MB

It didn't name is so

(parted) name 8 system

(parted) p

p

Model: MMC M8G2FB (sd/mmc)

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 7818MB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 131kB 262kB 131kB xloader

2 262kB 524kB 262kB bootloader

3 524kB 16.3MB 15.7MB recovery

4 16.8MB 33.6MB 16.8MB boot

5 33.6MB 83.9MB 50.3MB fat32 rom

6 83.9MB 134MB 50.3MB fat32 bootdata

7 134MB 522MB 388MB ext4 factory

8 522MB 2956MB 2434MB ext4 system

(parted)

(parted) mkpart

mkpart

Partition name? []? cache

cache

File system type? [ext2]? ext4

ext4

Start? 2956MB

2164MB

End? 3915MB

3915MB

(parted) p

p

Model: MMC M8G2FB (sd/mmc)

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 7818MB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 131kB 262kB 131kB xloader

2 262kB 524kB 262kB bootloader

3 524kB 16.3MB 15.7MB recovery

4 16.8MB 33.6MB 16.8MB boot

5 33.6MB 83.9MB 50.3MB fat32 rom

6 83.9MB 134MB 50.3MB fat32 bootdata

7 134MB 522MB 388MB ext4 factory

8 522MB 2956MB 2434MB ext4 system

9 2956MB 3915MB 959MB

again it didn't name it or show the partiion type so typed in:

(parted ) name 9 cache

(parted) p

p

Model: MMC M8G2FB (sd/mmc)

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 7818MB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 131kB 262kB 131kB xloader

2 262kB 524kB 262kB bootloader

3 524kB 16.3MB 15.7MB recovery

4 16.8MB 33.6MB 16.8MB boot

5 33.6MB 83.9MB 50.3MB fat32 rom

6 83.9MB 134MB 50.3MB fat32 bootdata

7 134MB 522MB 388MB ext4 factory

8 522MB 2956MB 2434MB ext4 system

9 2956MB 3915MB 959MB cache

(parted) mkpart

mkpart

Partition name? []? userdata

userdata

File system type? [ext2]? ext4

ext4

Start? 3915MB

3123MB

End? 100%

100%

Warning: You requested a partition from 3123MB to 7818MB.

The closest location we can manage is 3123MB to 7734MB.

Is this still acceptable to you?

Yes/No? Yes

Yes

(parted) p

p

Model: MMC M8G2FB (sd/mmc)

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 7818MB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 131kB 262kB 131kB xloader

2 262kB 524kB 262kB bootloader

3 524kB 16.3MB 15.7MB recovery

4 16.8MB 33.6MB 16.8MB boot

5 33.6MB 83.9MB 50.3MB fat32 rom

6 83.9MB 134MB 50.3MB fat32 bootdata

7 134MB 522MB 388MB ext4 factory

8 522MB 2164MB 1642MB ext4 system

9 2164MB 3123MB 959MB cache

10 3123MB 7734MB 4611MB

(parted) name 10 userdata

(parted) p

p

Model: MMC M8G2FB (sd/mmc)

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 7818MB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 131kB 262kB 131kB xloader

2 262kB 524kB 262kB bootloader

3 524kB 16.3MB 15.7MB recovery

4 16.8MB 33.6MB 16.8MB boot

5 33.6MB 83.9MB 50.3MB fat32 rom

6 83.9MB 134MB 50.3MB fat32 bootdata

7 134MB 522MB 388MB ext4 factory

8 522MB 2164MB 1642MB ext4 system

9 2164MB 3123MB 959MB cache

10 3123MB 7734MB 4611MB userdata

(parted)

Named it but they still didn't show partition types for cache and userdata.

Format userdata using: (mkfs.ext4 was not on my device)

mkfs.f2fs /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/userdata

I went to install CM 13 and got an error related to partition stuff (sorry I should have wrote it down) - anyway going into wipe and doing a factory reset fixed this for me (might be dependant on previously installed ROM? not sure but this worked for me - (actually I think this is because I forgot to format it with mkfs.f2fs command).

Installed CM13 again and worked fine. It works great until I install pico gapps and then I'm having all kinds of issues still but I was having these before repartitioning so it’s not related to doing this. I used both the most recent nightly builds as of 7/24/16 for cm13 and pico open gapps. I haven't tried going back to previous stable builds yet.

I'm flashing acclaim:6.0.1/MOB30R now as people have been saying it has better performance.

---------- Post added at 11:06 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:49 AM ----------

Oh a couple of other things I found every helpful. When your done partitioning - reboot back into twrp and you can goto wipe/advanced wipe/select a partition and hit Repair or Change. This will give you partition information before you actually change anything. If it doesn't say Present: Yes and have a file size then something is wrong. I had my /etc/fstab get weird on me at one point and I didn't want to manually edit it. Removing the partitions again, rebooting, and then recreating them cleaned it up for me.

Also I think I read somewhere that some of your device information is stored on partition #7 so if your going to delete higher than #8 - you might want to research that first.

Good Luck.

PS: If you find a version of Gapps that works with andriod 6.x - please let me know which one - as soon as I put on Gapps it either won't make it through the boot up (gets stuck on optimizing apps) or if I do power through that part - it seems to run like crap.

Thanks