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[Android Apps and Games] Kierrok:
179:18 can't be the 2nd partition. Maybe it's the 18th partition of your internal memory. Does your phone have a internal mass storage partition? Link2SD sometimes doesn't find the SD card 2nd partition when an internal mass storage partition exists.
[Android Apps and Games] rattletop:
link2sd suddenly not working on galaxy mini

Hi guys,

I have rooted my galaxy mini s5570 and it's running stock ROM. I got a 16GB microsd 2 weeks ago and linked most of app files to 2nd partition(2gb, ext2) Every app was working fine(music, Games etc.) until a few min ago, then after an unusual crash while using lucky patcher the phone rebooted and after that the link2sd app is unable to mount scripts.

i get the

"mount: invalid Argument error. ext2 may not be supported on your device"

I had rebooted the phone a couple of times in the past few days but never met with this issue. Also it took a while to boot when it worked but now it just boots quick and when i run link2sd it shows the above error. Any1 help please..? :(

P.S I am not an expert with UNIX and android. Just know the basics of rooting and stuff. lol
[Android Apps and Games] amirsat2012:
Thx man..i will try it

Envoyé depuis mon GT-I9000 avec Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] seancojr:
I thought it already supported this. *gasps* That may explain a lot.
[Android Apps and Games] bsoplinger:
It doesn't do data. Search here at XDA for the Directory Bind app, one solution for data.

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[Android Apps and Games] ghojezz:
Still don't have solutions for read-only file system error. i guess my sdcard was damaged and everytime i created a second partition, it's always corrupted in a matter of seconds (2-3 weeks and the problem reappear :p )

does anybody know why sdcard can be damaged? should i buy a new one?

or maybe there's another way to solve this problem? coz neither e2sck nor mount -rw -t blablabla work on me..

thanks

i suggest Mr Thread Starter should indexing all of known problems in here to prevent same question being asked again and over again
[Android Apps and Games] deckHUN:
Link2sd it's great app :) thx!
[Android Apps and Games] mohamedhassan002010:
:D

:o thanx
[Android Apps and Games] DamienWind:
Thoughts on this, anyone? I emailed the dev twice and didn't get a reply, been trying to figure this out on my own for weeks now and it's driving me crazy! Pretty please help! :)
[Android Apps and Games] BobbaLouie:
Questions

Can I use a 16gig SDHC card in my Optimus V?

Currently running Link2SD with the default 2gig SDcard that came with it. Looks like I partitioned it as 1gig/1gig FAT16.

Want to use the 16gig card, way overkill but it was damn near free. Looking at initial post in this thread it appears the 1st partition should be FAT.

My question: is FAT32 ok? In other words if I have 2 ~8gig FAT32 partitions both marked as primary I should be in compliance with Link2sd's specifications quoted above?

Also, if the above is workable, can I simply copy the data from the 2gig sdcard's partitions to the bigger card? Does the label of the partition matter?

Trying to avoid wiping my CM7 phone and starting from scratch. Not out of the question but the geek in me at least wants to try. :D

TIA!
[Android Apps and Games] bsoplinger:
You can copy the data. If you use Windows you won't be able to copy the 2nd partition and the apps. I have fuze on my MacBook and so could copy both partitions. Most apps survived the copy with 3 or 4 requiring a reinstall. Made moving to my 32G card with 4G for link2SD quite easy. Also let me add a few more apps on my tablet. 782 at last count. Tablet are fun. :D

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[Android Apps and Games] BobbaLouie:
Ahh crap, you're right, didnt consider that Windows only sees one of the partitions. Oh well, I'll have to think about this for a while.

So when I do decide to wipe/reinstall, I'm good with 2 8gig Fat32 partitions right?
[Android Apps and Games] lohtse:
What is the max size for 2nd partitions that link2sd can use??
[Android Apps and Games] Osama Zabin:
Dear experts,

Any clue about this issue?

Your feedback is really appreciated.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] SifJar:
In Link2SD, try pressing menu, and then "more" and then "relink library files". This has helped me regain a lot of space before (by default it should do this when you reboot your phone, but sometimes it doesn't work for me).

Otherwise, it is probably app data that is the problem. Download the app "Disk Usage" from Play Store and open it. Tap "[root required]" and then select "/data". The top entry will probably be the app data, with a file size below it showing you how much space is taken up by app data. For example, see this image:

You can see that on my phone, 59.7 MB is taken up by app data. In the next column, the first entry is the largest one, in this case com.htc.social. I can tap on the name of this entry to zoom in, which then shows me it is taking up 5.07 MB, and shows me the next few entries in the list. (You can also use pinch to zoom to zoom in wherever you want).

Once you have identified the apps with a large amount of data, you can go into the phones settings, go into Applications, then Manage Applications, find the app and choose "Clear Data" to get some space back. Alternatively, you could use Directory Bind to move the data to the SD card, as suggested above (haven't tried it personally, it seems to link data to the normal SD card partition, which could be problematic e.g. when using USB mass storage mode). Currently, at least, Link2SD cannot do anything with application data.
[Android Apps and Games] anhelogr:
I use CWR to particion my sd card when i booted my link2sd ask for particion ext2 or ext3 or ext4 or fat 32

i pick ext2 then i had to reboot 2 times for link2sd to work

evey time i boot up i had to do the same.

i try to use minitool to particion my sd card and i saw it said ext3!!for my card

so put it back and chose ext3 on link2sd it work like a clock now

i have more than 40+apps and more than 107mb internal memory !!!!
[Android Apps and Games] Osama Zabin:
Many thanks Sif Jar, thanks is already pressed :-) , now I free some MB, below is the latest internal memory status, dropped from 121 to 97, anyways, some of data can't be cleared as am using on daily basis, I'll give this application a try, Directory Bind, and for sure we are waiting Akpinar to find a way for data link.
[Android Apps and Games] stathist84:
I am loving it!! Great work m8!!
[Android Apps and Games] lohtse:
Please confirm max partition sizes!
[Android Apps and Games] Kierrok:
AFAIK there isn't no limitation. But it's useless to make the partition too big because you may run out of internal memory space used by apps data.

I think 10 times your internal memory size is more than enough.
[Android Apps and Games] lohtse:
Thank you for your reply:D
[Android Apps and Games] ztiger:
no need for this app to android 2.3 >>> this feature already built in the system:cowboy:
[Android Apps and Games] d12unk13astard:
You have no idea what you are talking about, move along.
[Android Apps and Games] bsoplinger:
Hmm, since my tablet comes with 7.7G partitioned for apps I guess a 77G partition would be big enough. Now where did I put that 128G SDXC card? :D

However in all seriousness you need to remember that for Android versions > 2.3 when the system reboots it extracts all the library files from every app and installs then in the internal memory. So you need enough space for those library files. Link2SD can move them back to the SDHC card once it runs at boot complete but the space has to be there. I wouldn't exceed double your memory size on ICS and above if you have a phone, Honeycomb and above for tablets.

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[Android Apps and Games] SifJar:
Nope, this is completely different to the official apps2sd method and much better (IMO). This links the ENTIRE app to the SD card, rather than just part of it like the official method. It also puts the apps on a second partition, which means apps on the SD card are still accessible when USB mass storage mode is activated. You can also move all apps, not just the ones that are officially able to be moved. Using the official method, I was only able to install about 10-15 apps on my phone before internal storage was full, despite all apps possible being on SD card. Then I rooted and installed link2SD. I now have about 70-80 apps installed.
[Android Apps and Games] Kierrok:
7.7GB?!? :eek: You shouldn't even know what Link2SD is! ;)

Well, I forgot about the lib files because I don't link them. I use mount binds. Maybe 5 times the size of the internal memory is a better deal. My numbers are based only in my experience and the 200MB of my phone internal memory. With 104 user apps installed I still have 110MB free.
[Android Apps and Games] decmk:
@bakpinar

Three little suggests

1. Can you add markers like marker on sd card, for system apps ex. on System (apps on /system/app) and for internal ex. on internal (apps on /data/app)

2. Odex in sort menu

3. In details view in size below action button odex are not listed
[Android Apps and Games] bsoplinger:
Actually my tablet uses a 4GB partition for link2SD. How else do you think I managed to load 1068 apps, system apps included in that count? I've 2 apps sized at 200+ MB and quite a few over 60 MB so that 4 GB disappeared quickly. And before anyone guesses, no warez excepting versions of Gameloft games that I paid for but didn't have official HTC Evo View 4G versions.

I also had the Virgin Mobile HTC Wildfire S which had about 115 MB free after Sense loaded. Install 5 apps and you were done, no room for more, 10 using app2SD. Made the mistake of having link2SD copy everything to SDHC card then watched the phone die on its first reboot as 100+ MB of library files got recreated on a reboot. So perhaps you're right with a 10x guess for phones with limited memory *if* you don't link library and dalvik to SDHC.

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[Android Apps and Games] Okluzhion:
Does anyone here know why free space on sd-ext is not shown correctly? I know here is only around 40MB left, but the Link2SD and any mother app that recognises sd-ext, shows there is more that 120MB left.

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[Android Apps and Games] speedyranger:
Hi. I don't understand why the used space is wrong. My partition is new without any application.

Any suggestion?

Thanks

Inviato con LG-P920 3D powered by SpeedyROM v.1.3.1
[Android Apps and Games] decmk:
Your reported free size is the same on both pictures

Used is wrong.

Maybe file system of second partition is using some space.
[Android Apps and Games] speedyranger:
you have right... used space is strange.

i search but i don't find anything:eek:
[Android Apps and Games] mkochsch:
FAT32

I'm in the same boat. Did you end up getting this working with two fat32 partitions? Or does the first partition need to be just fat?
[Android Apps and Games] bsoplinger:
You can make 2 fat partitions if you wish. I'd still suggest that the 2nd be ext4 if your ROM supports it, ext3 if not. For those few ROMs that don't even do ext3 fall back to ext2 or fat/fat32. There is no need to use up 8G for the 2nd partition. One or two gig should be plenty for an older phone with limited memory, 4 G for newer. I've used fat32 for the main partition and ext4 for link2SD on all the various sizes of SDHC cards I've used in my different devices.

As far as being able to "save" your app files from a smaller card moving to a larger one, you have a few options. A Linux machine, a Linux distro live CD, a Mac with MacFuse installed and finally if you have honeycomb or ICS you can use OTG USB with a SDHC card reader and terminal to do the copy with your Android device. I've done my copies use a tar piped to another tar command on the command line. You may need to go online to find a UNIX/Linux tar command man page if using the live CD or Android device as they don't have the local help system installed. In the examples part of the man page it explains the syntax to copy files from one device to another. I don't do it often enough and always need to look up the syntax myself and I've been doing device copies this way for 30+ years.:p

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[Android Apps and Games] hgmichna:
Out-of-the-Box Experience

I'm new to Link2SD. I installed the program and chose the partition type.

Why is it asking me for the partition type? This would indicate to me that the program cannot find out which file system is used on a partition. That would be an incredibly stupid Android defect. But, well, we've seen such things before.

Then I get a waiting dialog with a little rotor. It stays there for a minute. There is no progress bar. It stays there for another minute. Nothing else happens.

Then the screen goes dark. No problem, I can wake up the screen again. I push the wake-up button. Nothing happens. The screen is solidly black.

The phone is effectively dead. It does not react to any button. It does not reboot either. I cannot power down.

I end up pulling the battery. This is about the worst OOBE one can have, short of data destruction.

This happened repeatedly on a Google Nexus One with CyanogenMod 7.2.
[Android Apps and Games] Androidnow:
What about the already existing apps in the sd card? Will they automatically get transfered to ext4 from FAT32?
[Android Apps and Games] bsoplinger:
File systems, which is what the 2nd partition you made on your SDHC card is, need to be mounted. If you want to be able to actually use the file system you need to mount the correct file system. No operating system is psychic. No operating system knows what the partition type is. Some make assumptions and those assumptions can be correct more often than not. Some will try to mount various file system types until it finds one that works.

All that boils down to the fact that it isn't odd or strange that link2SD asks the file system of the partition.

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[Android Apps and Games] rashid.fairus:
it wont automatically transferred to ext,because its using native a2sd method,you can manually switch it back to internal memory and link it via link2sd

any chance to have feature to move data/data to sd-ext??
[Android Apps and Games] Androidnow:
one more thing....i am using galaxy ace GTS5830I.......what should i go for ? ext 4 or ext 3?
[Android Apps and Games] rashid.fairus:
suggesting ext2 @ ext3,more stable than ext4,and also good for sdcard(lifetime)
[Android Apps and Games] Androidnow:
i did it through cwm....but now when i connect to my computer ...it just shows one partition drive with 6gb storage on the computer....i have a 8 gb sd card....did a ext 3 1gb partition.....is this normal? ...its not showing the ext 3 partition on my computer
[Android Apps and Games] rashid.fairus:
normal,can only see the partition using partition software (eg.Minitool Partition),i usually using that software to partition my sd
[Android Apps and Games] hgmichna:
So you confirm that Android offers no way for a program to find out which file system a partition has. I had already resigned, facing this, and keep thinking that it is incredibly stupid, if true.
[Android Apps and Games] SifJar:
To mount the device, it needs to know what FS it is using. Once mounted, it can easily tell what FS it is using. I don't know how other OSes handle that, but Android has no real need to detect the FS of an unmounted device, because the only officially supported one in almost every official ROM is FAT32.
[Android Apps and Games] hgmichna:
Could a program mount a partition, find out what file system it has, then remount it with that proper file system, if necessary? That would certainly be a much more reliable method than asking the user.
[Android Apps and Games] SifJar:
No, because to mount it in the first place you need to know the FS. If you attempt to mount it with the wrong FS, it'll just not work. Even if it did, and you tried to detect the FS, it'd detect the one used to mount it, not the FS the device is actually formatted to.
[Android Apps and Games] frenzyboi:
I partition my external memory using fat32, and haven't been having any problems, till now.

I've lots of memory in all three of -> internet, external and partition. However, when I try to install a few kb application, it says "Out of Space".

Any help here? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] hgmichna:
I'd like to confirm that. And there is a second reason. When you move your apps back from the SD card, where they had been stored with the built-in method of Android, you also move back some of their data. The data, however, cannot be shifted to the ext partition with Link2SD.

The result is that, even if you gain some space with Link2SD, you may not even be able to double your internal storage space.

In fact, I first tried to externalize only the APK files, not lib and not dalvik-cache, and that did not free any internal memory at all. Apparently the APK gain was more than eaten up by the loss through additional data.

I suspect, even double the memory will be more than can be filled. That's a pity, but for me Link2SD is still a life saver that extends the useful life of my phone quite a bit.

These are the figures. I had some 60 apps and 20 MB free, the minimum. With Link2SD I now have about 70 apps and 60 MB free. Much better, but it seems I would not be able to have 120 apps installed. I'd probably run out of space at around 100, of course depending on the size of the apps and their data.
[Android Apps and Games] bsoplinger:
You did free up the memory you thought that you did but weren't patient enough. Android doesn't immediately update the status of the disc but instead caches it and updates the info eventually. There are a few ways to get the data to update, I'm sure it's here in this thread actually.

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[Android Apps and Games] hgmichna:
But it has been like this, currently 135 MB used, 61 MB free, for days, with several reboots.

This is a Nexus One, which has only very little internal memory. Perhaps that explains it.
[Android Apps and Games] CheriePie:
App Name

I haven't been able to find the answer to this in my searching.

An app I use, Badass Battery Monitor, recently changed it's name to GSam Battery Monitor Pro, but Link2SD is still showing the old name in it's list. Is there any way to force it to update the name?

I've tried the Refresh option within the app which didn't help, nor did clearing all the caches. The Link2SD app isn't showing a cache at the system level so I couldn't try that, and I'm leary to do a Clear Data from there since that may delete more info than I'd like. And a restart didn't refresh it either.

Any ideas how I can get it to recognize the app under it's new name?
[Android Apps and Games] hgmichna:
I don't know how to do that in Link2SD, but perhaps a simple solution could be to uninstall the program entirely, then reinstall it. You'd lose all its settings (short of keeping them in something like Titanium Backup).
[Android Apps and Games] hispanico957:
I have a strange problem...only samsung apps are on Galxy but have only 2MB free in internal memory...

Why this

Thank

Hispa
[Android Apps and Games] elzafir:
If I resize the hidden partition (the Link2SD) partition of my microSD on my PC using a card-reader, will it break the links?
[Android Apps and Games] SifJar:
It is possible the data on that partition could be damaged by resizing, but if you use something like MiniTool Partition Wizard, you should be able to resize the partition without losing any data I think.
[Android Apps and Games] CheriePie:
Would rather not uninstall completely if I don't have to since that could bring up other issues. And restoring the settings from Titanium may just bring back the old app name anyway. So I'm thinking there really should be a way within the app to do it, or a file I can delete. But if the dev doesn't reply back soon I may just end up trying the uninstall and reinstall anyway. *shrug* Thanks for the reply though. :)
[Android Apps and Games] elzafir:
Thanks for the reply.

I tried resizing the partition but there was some unknown error, so I backed up the partition using EASEUS back up tool, delete the partition, and created and resized the a new, smaller partition. Then I moved all the data back to the hidden partition and Link2SD recognized the partition like nothing happens!

I'm a very happy man now!

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[Android Apps and Games] SifJar:
Good to know. I haven't actually tried it personally, but it is good to know how one would do it if I ever run out of space on the partition I have now (or upgrade to a larger SD card, which I am considering)
[Android Apps and Games] grayson73:
Partition sizes

I was told to make Partition 1 bigger than partition 2, but it seems like partition 2 is being used more:

Internal: Total 179mb, 97.64mb used

SD Card /mnt/sdcard: Total 0.97GB, 414mb used

SD Card 2nd Part. /data/sdext2: Total 877mb, 791mb used

Is that normal? If so, I should have put more in partition 2. Can I still do that without messing up my programs?

Thanks,

Grayson
[Android Apps and Games] SifJar:
Partition 1 is the partition seen by your phone and apps as the SD card. Partition 2 is just for Link2SD. So partition 1 is used for storing things like photos, music, videos etc. If you don't store a lot on it, you could indeed make it smaller and increase partition 2. If you look two posts above yours there is a post by someone who changed the size of their second partition. They backed up their partition with EASUS backup tool, then deleted the 2nd partition and made a new one the size they wanted, then restored the backup they made, and Link2SD worked fine. So you can try that :)
[Android Apps and Games] grayson73:
I did not know that. Thanks so much for the explanation! I really appreciate it.
[Android Apps and Games] decmk:
I found a bug

When you update app from google play, and that app have linked libs, new version of app have new libs with diferent names, old unused linked libs stay on second partition and relinked on every boot.

Found in officesuite 8 mb wasted space in old unused libs, from previous 4 versions.

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[Android Apps and Games] Kierrok:
I thought this was already fixed... I reported this many months ago.