Hey Zero, help me out please

[JStandiford21]

Was wondering if you have been able to get apps2ext working and if so, can you help me out with getting it going?

I have my sd card partitioned from back when I did it on UD and used droid swap and had all my apps installed on the SD card

Thanks in advance for any help bro

 

[yakitori]

Yes any instructions would be awesome. I have no idea how to do it and I know zero is very knowledgable. I would like to do it too.

Sent from crystal droid

 

[ZeroBarrier]

I'll post instructions in a few, getting ready to pull mah brownies out the oven! :laugh:

 

[JStandiford21]

I'll post instructions in a few, getting ready to pull mah brownies out the oven! :laugh:

Sweet man, appreciate it. And are you going to share?

 

[ZeroBarrier]

OK, to start you're going to have to push the 20userinit file I've attached (extract it first) to /system/etc/init.d/ and set permissions to 0750.

adb remount
adb push 20userinit /system/etc/init.d/
adb shell chmod 0750 /system/etc/init.d/20userinit

Then, you'll need to bypass e2fsck because it's not working correctly on this ROM. Easiest way to do this is changing it's permissions.

adb shell chmod 644 /system/bin/e2fsck

Then you'll need to go to Firerat's thread here and get the latest App2EXT script, the current one is 1.36c, download it and place it on the root of your SD card.

Then, just run this command:

adb shell
sh /sdcard/fr-a2sd_1-36c.sh.txt

You'll be prompted by an error saying it's assuming file system is ok because we're bypassing e2fsck; then you'll make the choice of binding /data/data/ to /sd-ext/data/. This is a personal choice for everyone; so please be sure to read Firerat's thread carefully so you can understand what you'll be getting yourself into. No worries though, whatever you choose here you can reverse easily.

If you have any questions after reading Firerat's thread carefully, hit me up and I'll try and explain it to you in a more simplified way.

 

[ZeroBarrier]

I'll post instructions in a few, getting ready to pull mah brownies out the oven! :laugh:

Sweet man, appreciate it. And are you going to share?

Ha, even my girl isn't getting any of this!!! Two basic rules, don't mess with my chocolate, and don't you dare mess with my coffee.

 

[TRIKOTRET]

I'll post instructions in a few, getting ready to pull mah brownies out the oven! :laugh:

Sweet man, appreciate it. And are you going to share?

Ha, even my girl isn't getting any of this!!! Two basic rules, don't mess with my chocolate, and don't you dare mess with my coffee.

You forgot the third one, dont you dare mess with my droid :icon_ banana:

 

[Ozzie]

I've been thinking about trying this too...what are the benefits to partitioning out the sd? Would you take the card and hook it up to your puter and use something like a partition manager to do it?
I don't imagine the tools exist to do it while in the phone...

I guess I'm typing slow tonight...must be the margaritas...

 

[Logan3824]

Sweet man, appreciate it. And are you going to share?

Ha, even my girl isn't getting any of this!!! Two basic rules, don't mess with my chocolate, and don't you dare mess with my coffee.

You forgot the third one, dont you dare mess with my droid :icon_ banana:

Best.Line.Ever. :icon_ banana::icon_ banana::icon_ banana::icon_ banana::icon_ banana::icon_ banana::icon_ banana::icon_ banana::icon_ banana::icon_ banana::icon_ banana::icon_ banana::icon_ banana::icon_ banana:

 

[JStandiford21]

I've been thinking about trying this too...what are the benefits to partitioning out the sd? Would you take the card and hook it up to your puter and use something like a partition manager to do it?
I don't imagine the tools exist to do it while in the phone...

I guess I'm typing slow tonight...must be the margaritas...

I barely remember back to when I partitioned mine, I believe it was also done through adb

 

[ZeroBarrier]

I've been thinking about trying this too...what are the benefits to partitioning out the sd? Would you take the card and hook it up to your puter and use something like a partition manager to do it?
I don't imagine the tools exist to do it while in the phone...

I guess I'm typing slow tonight...must be the margaritas...

Actually, you can do it from the phone, just have to download parted, push it to /system/bin/ and set correct permissions, but in all honesty, it's more trouble than it's worth. It's much easier to reboot into recovery, mount SD card mass storage, run gparted live CD or USB stick, and partition it like that while SD card is still in the phone (acting like a makeshift card reader).

Once it's partitioned, you can just leave it like that. You'll make 512MB-1GB ext3, maybe a 32MB linux-swap and the rest fat32 (has to be in order though, fat32 #1, ext3 #2 and swap #3), so you don't lose very much room.

 

[JStandiford21]

I've been thinking about trying this too...what are the benefits to partitioning out the sd? Would you take the card and hook it up to your puter and use something like a partition manager to do it?
I don't imagine the tools exist to do it while in the phone...

I guess I'm typing slow tonight...must be the margaritas...

Actually, you can do it from the phone, just have to download parted, push it to /system/bin/ and set correct permissions, but in all honesty, it's more trouble than it's worth. It's much easier to reboot into recovery, mount SD card mass storage, run gparted live CD or USB stick, and partition it like that while SD card is still in the phone (acting like a makeshift card reader).

Once it's partitioned, you can just leave it like that. You'll make 512MB-1GB ext3, maybe a 32MB linux-swap and the rest fat32 (has to be in order though, fat32 #1, ext3 #2 and swap #3), so you don't lose very much room.

Whats the terminal command to view your partition info, i can't remember.

 

[ZeroBarrier]

You can use:

su
df -h

To check what's currently mounted. The sd-ext will be everything in mmcblk0p2.

 

[JStandiford21]

You can use:

su
df -h

To check what's currently mounted. The sd-ext will be everything in mmcblk0p2.

I know I have mine partitioned, but I'm not seeing that.

What does your readout look like using that command?

 

[ZeroBarrier]

If you don't see mmcblk0p2 it means your ext partition isn't mounted yet. Run:

su
mount -o rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /sd-ext
df -h

That will mount your ext partition (until you reboot at least).