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Root SD partitioning

I'm pretty sure I followed everything exactly, but I'll try again either at work or after tomorrow.
 
One other quick thing - are you still on Mikfroyo 4.5 with netarchy? Did you, at any point, do anything to the boot image (I'm guess you're not sure)? Here's one other command you can try:

su
a2sd partlist

That will tell you what partition types the ROM will support. Let's make sure it's not an issue with your ROM.
 
I'm still at work so haven't got a chance to delete the partitions and reformat my card yet. But I did type in that command. At the bottom it says ext3 partition supported. I'm still using Mikfroyo and netarchy. No I haven't done anything to the boot image that I'm aware of.

Mr. Ed, that program is kind of different for me to operate. I deleted everything then recreated a FAT32 for the entire 14.9gb available. When I deleted everything it still had a file which I think was named undetermined, that's what I created into a FAT32 without naming it.
 
I just went and bought a new card reader since the cheap 1 I had decided to quit working. I'm in the process of deleting the partitions now. Do I format it on my computer or just on my phone?
 
Well, you'll probably need to use partition manager to wipe everything out and format the whole thing. You'll want to format it and partition it after that from the phone.
 
Ok that's what I was thinking. When I go to format it in Easeus it asks for a cluster size, what size do I select? I picked 32KB the last time but I'm double checking this step before I go any further.
 
I formatted (@32kb) and put my SD back in. My roommates dragged me2 the casino so this won't get tackled til 2morrow after I put a water pump in a duramax.
 
I think I used 8 ...pretty sure that is what the card was...but I don't see it making a difference

sorry guys I have been overwhelmed at work.

thank goodness for akazabam!
 
Well, I would suggest you use whatever the card originally was. The problem is, I have no idea what the default was. Here's the thing with cluster size (which is more specific to fat32; ext filesystems use block size) - the larger the cluster size, the faster the card will be, but the more space you'll waste. The smaller the cluster size, the slower the card will be, but less space you'll waste. It's a trade off, really.

Files are basically broken up and stored in clusters. If a file is 64 KB, for example, it will take up two clusters if you set it to 32 KB. If you set it to 8 KB clusters, it will take up 8 clusters. What that means is, it takes longer to get the file when it is split up among more clusters. The thing is, you kind of want that because if you set your cluster size at 32 KB, 32 KB is *technically* the smallest file you'll ever have. What that means is, if you then have a file that is 1 KB, it's going to take up the entire 32 KB cluster. So, if you have 10 1KB files, they would take up 320 KB, rather than 80 KB if you'd set the cluster size at 8 KB. The general rule is - if you intend to have a lot of large files, a large cluster size is a good idea. If you intend to have a lot of smaller files, a smaller cluster size is better. That being said, I'm not looking at a few tables of cluster sizes compared to partition sizes, and 8 KB looks like a good number to set it to. Like I said, I just don't know what the card was originally set to. If it seems slow, reformat it with a higher cluster size. It should be fine, though. Like I said yesterday, 32 KB seems kind of high.
 
Alright I finally have some time to work on this. I'm going to reformat it @8KB and retry this again. I went into TE and did the a2sd install command, same as before, SD card not mounted. So let me get back to square 1 again, and go from there.
 
It's not likely an issue with a2sd. You're on Mik's, right? It comes with a2sd. Did you flash over it? Also, do this from the terminal emulator:

su
ls -l -d /system/sd

What does that return?
 
That returned
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Feb 24 21:39 /system/sd

Yes, I flashed the file from darktremors xda thread when I first started this.
 
Hmmm....now THAT is interesting. One more command:

mount | grep /system/sd

What does that return? Pending that answer, I may have a suggestion.
 
Okay, try this - make a nandroid backup, wipe data/cache/dalvik, reflash your ROM, assuming you're still on mik's 4.5, *don't* flash a2sd (it's included already), then try a2sd again. Let's see if we can either rule out the ROM, or just see if that's the problem.
 
That took some time but I'm all set. I tried a2sd again, typing in:

su
a2sd install

It started it's thing but didn't get as far as last time. Ended with this:

[ ] Started Darktremor Apps2sd in install mode
[x] Invalid command: install
 
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