Partitions

[williek113]

Lately I've been trying to maximize the storage on my phone. I've really only looked into Link2sd but after doing so I learned about partitions. A bit. Because of a bad experience, *I think* I lost all of my sd card contents because of a partition. I know it would be a pain to do so, but can someone walk me through this whole partition business and what it does, and the ups and downs of it?

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[_alexkta]

Yea partitioning formats your whole SD card that's why its best to backup your SD to your PC and you could partition from your recovery, and the recommended size is 10% of your SD card size

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[williek113]

Would the percentage be different since I have a 16 gb sdcard?

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[upconvert]

You should shoot for 10%, no matter what the size of the card. A little bit up or down from that is fine. I've been using a 4gb partition on my 32gb card for a long time with no problems. Since it's just for apps, you probably won't need more than 1gb. I realized a long time ago that 1gb would be fine for me, but I'm just too lazy to repartition.

 

[williek113]

Wait so after you partition, can you move all of your files back to the sd card and the partition stays? Also does the partition stay after every rom that is flashed?

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[upconvert]

Wait so after you partition, can you move all of your files back to the sd card and the partition stays? Also does the partition stay after every rom that is flashed?

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That is correct. Once you partition, you can move all your stuff back to the main partition. The ext partition will stay til you repartition.

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[williek113]

Not makin much sense on my side... So say I'm all done partitioning. Will my pc recognize the partition and be like "here's one partition and here's the other"? Also correct me if I'm wrong but a partition is when you set aside a part of your sd card for other uses. And that part of the sd card can't be touched by other things.

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[upconvert]

Correct. Your pc will not see the ext partition. Only roms will be able to use it.

 

[AndyOpie150]

If you use a Linux Distro like Ubuntu, or Mint, or Puppy Slacko you can see everything on the partition.

There more secure and can't get a virus unless you install a windows program to run on Wine without first checking it for a virus. Even then the virus is only superficial.

I don't go online with the Windows OS as I've gotten to many bugs. I just keep it for the programs that haven't been developed for Linux or BSD yet.

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[williek113]

Well I just kinda did whatever. I went into the recovery and it gave me no percentages... all i got were for example, "512M" which is what i chose for the first one. And for the second, I chose 64M. not really sure what I just did there. All I know is that I partitioned it, not really sure what size or percentage though...

 

[upconvert]

That should work fine for you. 10% of 16 GB is 1.6 GB, which is 1600 mb, so you partitioned about 3%. That will fit loads of apps, though. The second thing is your swap partition, which most ROMs for our phone won't use. It won't do any harm, though, so you can leave it the way it is.

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[williek113]

ok thanks man

 

[thewraith420]

I'm just curious about the 10% recommendation.... I've been running a 4gb partition on my 16gb sandisk class 4 for a long time now with no issues. So.. Is there a specific reason for not going over 10%?

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