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Link2SD display the same as your image but Im possitive I have not partition my external sd. I believe that the last time I had this working that it is displayed as another and separate part.
 

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MrJavi said:
Really, what happend? Mine work great. Ive had it for almost a year. I read a few bad review but took a chance on it. So far



I plan on partitioning my card in three. The first Fat32, the second ext2 and the 3rd vertual ram. Ill experiment with my old 64Gb card and if indeed it work as expected, I will then teformat it back to Fat32. When I partition my 128Gb card it will be Fat32 75Gbs, ext2 50Gb and 1 Gbs vertual ram. 2Gbs unused .
The second ext2 will act as internal storage, useful for putting app data on external sd while kepeping the app on internal.
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Correct, and that virtual storage didn't need that much of gigs..bare in mind that your Note4 before modification handles more than 200 apps and data just within 3gigs..doesn't it?
 
MrJavi said:
Yes, I agree the Fat32 partition should be larger as I believe the TWRP backup are saved on this and not ext2 or ext4 partition.
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Actually they aren't saved into that new partition..they are saved into the internal..then you can save them into your external sd..but they get into the virtual if you at any giving point restore from that back up..
 
MrJavi said:
Link2SD display the same as your image but Im possitive I have not partition my external sd. I believe that the last time I had this working that it is displayed as another and separate part.
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So you see we have the same space size?, and you haven't done the partition yet, have you???..if you haven't, why do we have the same size in the internal partition..all that means that swap thing doesn't work, does it???..

You finally see my point???
 
Xavier Black said:
Correct, and that virtual storage didn't need that much of gigs..bare in mind that your Note4 before modification handles more than 200 apps and data just within 3gigs..doesn't it?
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The vertual storage may or may not be the term but it could very well be. Iv never thought of it like that. I kown using the external sd to expanding ram is vertual ram.
Im might be because it was part of the OS at one time. "Choosing sd as internal" .
if thats what your referring to, the second partition, it would depend on personal choice. How you or do not plan on using that partition.
Aince I plane on keeping most apps on internal physical phone storage but plan on moving their large data files to the second partition, for thar I need the extral Gbs.
 
Xavier Black said:
So you see we have the same space size?, and you haven't done the partition yet, have you???..if you haven't, why do we have the same size in the internal partition..all that means that swap thing doesn't work, does it???..

You finally see my point???
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IDK, I haven't done this in 3 years. It did not work when I got to 6.0 MM. I was just explaining what I was planning on doing. I didnt realize you were going to start before I had a chance to test it first. In fact, In one of the previous post you stated that you didnt find this of any use. Next thing I know you had already started.
 
I need time to figure it out and am not sure if this wed ill be successful. Systemless root prevents mounting the bash/scrips before boot as App2SD indicstes in a fail.
Right now, Thats my bigest obsticel. This is what Im looking at right now. Heres a programer trying to do a somewhat similar endeavor but for different purposes. Check out the script that the wrote. Hes having a fail issue aswell and thats because he know how to program, wile I do not. Hes asking what he did wrong when writing this script. My answer is "I haven't got a clue" and no one provide him with any suggestions.

https://superuser.com/questions/128...startup-time-before-mounting-disks-from-fstab
 
I could be by adding it to .intd and provideing a directory path. App2SD provides a way of installing mount at boot threw TWRP but I fear DM-Verity or DAK fail. It all a bit frustrating. when I did have virtual ram. It was didplayed as a separate indicater on both App2SD and Link2SD. It was not a combined total.
 
Even when as far as to grand a dangerous permission (UID) and it still doesn't work. Sometimes it will take a week or two to figure it out and usually if it ends successful I have no idea what combination ended in a successful result.
In this case, Im focusing on the mount at boot. I believe that is the first issue that need to be resolved. I just am not sure how to go about doing that with systemless root.
Flashing it or creating a directory in the system partition?
 
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This is something Im testing not suggesting. Just an Idea that perhaps if I partition the size without formating the first partition. Lets say
25Gb without formating, the format the 2nd in Fat32 in 40Gbs and 1 Gb vertual ram.


Edit : didnt work , oh well
 
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Xavier Black said:
So you see we have the same space size?, and you haven't done the partition yet, have you???..if you haven't, why do we have the same size in the internal partition..all that means that swap thing doesn't work, does it???..

You finally see my point???
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I understood your point before but what you asked was something I did 3 years ago.
 
MrJavi said:
Link2SD display the same as your image but Im possitive I have not partition my external sd. I believe that the last time I had this working that it is displayed as another and separate part.
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I think you are right..because I remember back then, taking a picture and the whole screen wouldn't fit in one single shot..
 
With Xposed and some of the module I was able to force apps to external sd and its cool to the power to be able to but I would much prefer keeping the app in internal and pushing the data to external. Of course , not a frorce all app data to sd method but the choice to pick and choose, the way it used in link to sd.
It may be possible but its definitely not that simple. Some say it has to have been implemented with the kernel and others say it can bedone without an app by chancing 2 specific files in the system with a root files explorer and even using TWRP terminal emulater to mount scrips at boot.
It used to work great before the OS was updated. Time to move on to another mod. The .zip from XDA did indeed work but it was all as internal or all to external and I find no use for that.
I believe the solution other than mount scrips at boot is in 2 files of our N4.

1. /system /bin/sdcard

2. /system/ bin/vold


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I wouldn't know how to mod either one.
 
MrJavi said:
I believe this is the best possible resource for our sd card partitioning error. Its a long read.

https://forum.xda-
developers.com/android/apps-games/apps2sd-partition-sd-card-link-apps-to-t3122919/page285
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Hey brother I forgot to mention you some people said if you do the extension number 2 you will get issues have you tried the extension number 4?
 
Hey have you tried the apps2sd app..I don't want to accept but that app has way way way more options compared to link2sd and is also way more complex and has some options related to the issue when mount the second partition extension..
 
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