Hi all,
I was using data2ext (ext4 version) with a 2GB card for a while now under zeffies CM7 ROM. I installed it just fine following this guide .. Right after enabling and rebooting it showed 1GB of space (half of my 2GB sd was dedicated to /data/) and worked a treat. Well I have decided to go back to froyo for personal reasons and choose to go with the Aphrodite 2.0.1 with Xionia 010 kernel (13apr11) ROM and give data2ext (ext2 version a try). I just picked up a class10 8GB card, brand new and made the 1gb ext partition through the recovery menu (Xionia CWMA v1.2518.4 Virgin Edition) Now, it's my understanding that Gingerbread supports ext4 and froyo does not, froyo seemed to work fine before when I was using link2sd and a ext3 partition so I figured froyo would work fine with a ext2 partition (there is no data2ext that supports a ext3 FS). So I figured it would be easy, flashed the Aphrodite ROM, started fine and looks and works just great, downloaded the "data2ext2-v7.zip" from the official XDA thread and flashed that also just fine (all of this was done via Xionia CWMA v1.2518.4 Virgin Edition) "xionia_cwma_12518.4_virgin_proper.rar". I then connected via ADB shell and ran the commands stated on the XDA thread
but after rebooting it still shows only my normal internal storage space under settings... tried doing this over a few times, data2ext is enabled but not "Activated" when i try to re-enable it. After disabling it, re-flashing zip, re-running code in ADB shell I am still getting same result. Here is a copy from my shell promt results...
so as you can see it seems like it's making the sd-ext into a ext2 FS ok, and enabling data2ext ok, just not "Activating" it and not working. I though it might be from the sd-ext already being mounted before I ran the commands, so I tried "umounting" it with these commands in ADB shell, if you notice, I tried all the possible methods I could find to unmount the sd-ext, I'm guessing it's not even mounted and there is something else going on here...
It's about 4:20am, so I'm done for tonight. If anyone has a clue as to what's going on here I would love to get it working. Data2ext worked really, really well under CM7. It would be so nice to have that space and performance gain!
update#1: I'm guessing ext2/3/4 support falls upon the Kernel in terms of support and implementation. I know when I was using Rodimus ROM I was able to use Link2SD fine with a ext3 partition, but rather than creating the partition through the recovery menu I did it on my XP machine using MiniTool Partition Wizard. Link2SD allowed me to choose from a few options like "use sdcard's FAT filesystem, use ext3, etc..." perhaps I'll try flashing the 013 Xionia Kernel Mmarz posted recently for the V's.....
thank you!
I was using data2ext (ext4 version) with a 2GB card for a while now under zeffies CM7 ROM. I installed it just fine following this guide .. Right after enabling and rebooting it showed 1GB of space (half of my 2GB sd was dedicated to /data/) and worked a treat. Well I have decided to go back to froyo for personal reasons and choose to go with the Aphrodite 2.0.1 with Xionia 010 kernel (13apr11) ROM and give data2ext (ext2 version a try). I just picked up a class10 8GB card, brand new and made the 1gb ext partition through the recovery menu (Xionia CWMA v1.2518.4 Virgin Edition) Now, it's my understanding that Gingerbread supports ext4 and froyo does not, froyo seemed to work fine before when I was using link2sd and a ext3 partition so I figured froyo would work fine with a ext2 partition (there is no data2ext that supports a ext3 FS). So I figured it would be easy, flashed the Aphrodite ROM, started fine and looks and works just great, downloaded the "data2ext2-v7.zip" from the official XDA thread and flashed that also just fine (all of this was done via Xionia CWMA v1.2518.4 Virgin Edition) "xionia_cwma_12518.4_virgin_proper.rar". I then connected via ADB shell and ran the commands stated on the XDA thread
Code:
mke2fs -m0 -b4096 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
then
data2ext --enable
but after rebooting it still shows only my normal internal storage space under settings... tried doing this over a few times, data2ext is enabled but not "Activated" when i try to re-enable it. After disabling it, re-flashing zip, re-running code in ADB shell I am still getting same result. Here is a copy from my shell promt results...
Code:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>adb remount
remount succeeded
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>adb shell
# mke2fs -m0 -b4096 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
mke2fs -m0 -b4096 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
62592 inodes, 250050 blocks
0 blocks (0%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=4194304
8 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
7824 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376
# data2ext --enable
data2ext --enable
Enabling Data2EXT...
Please reboot your phone for changes to take effect...
# reboot
reboot
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>
so as you can see it seems like it's making the sd-ext into a ext2 FS ok, and enabling data2ext ok, just not "Activating" it and not working. I though it might be from the sd-ext already being mounted before I ran the commands, so I tried "umounting" it with these commands in ADB shell, if you notice, I tried all the possible methods I could find to unmount the sd-ext, I'm guessing it's not even mounted and there is something else going on here...
Code:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>adb shell
# mount|egrep mmcblk0p2
mount|egrep mmcblk0p2
# umount /sd-ext
umount /sd-ext
failed.
# umount /sd-ext/
umount /sd-ext/
failed.
# umount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
umount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
failed.
# su
su
# umount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
umount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
failed.
# umount /sd-ext
umount /sd-ext
failed.
# mount|egrep mmcblk0p2
mount|egrep mmcblk0p2
# umount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
umount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
failed.
# umount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
umount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
failed.
It's about 4:20am, so I'm done for tonight. If anyone has a clue as to what's going on here I would love to get it working. Data2ext worked really, really well under CM7. It would be so nice to have that space and performance gain!
update#1: I'm guessing ext2/3/4 support falls upon the Kernel in terms of support and implementation. I know when I was using Rodimus ROM I was able to use Link2SD fine with a ext3 partition, but rather than creating the partition through the recovery menu I did it on my XP machine using MiniTool Partition Wizard. Link2SD allowed me to choose from a few options like "use sdcard's FAT filesystem, use ext3, etc..." perhaps I'll try flashing the 013 Xionia Kernel Mmarz posted recently for the V's.....
thank you!
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