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Resizing Partitions (For Android)

This document provides instructions for resizing partitions on an Android device's microSD card using gparted to utilize all remaining space. It describes expanding the "userdata" partition to 32GB, moving it and other Android partitions down the stack to the end, and expanding the FAT32 partition to fill the remaining unallocated space. It also describes optional steps for emummc users to allocate space for an emummc partition and create an unformatted partition.

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Resizing Partitions (For Android)

This document provides instructions for resizing partitions on an Android device's microSD card using gparted to utilize all remaining space. It describes expanding the "userdata" partition to 32GB, moving it and other Android partitions down the stack to the end, and expanding the FAT32 partition to fill the remaining unallocated space. It also describes optional steps for emummc users to allocate space for an emummc partition and create an unformatted partition.

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Resizing partitions (for Android)

Fire up gparted and you'll be presented with the following popup:


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We want to hit the "Fix" button.. this will allow us to utilise all the remaining
space on the microsd card.
As soon as we do this tho, there is no turning back.. you'll need to complete the
tutorial.

What we're looking at here is the default layout, note the unallocated space
highlighted below:
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The first thing we're going to do is expand the android user data partition (sdd7
in the screenshot above).. Right click "userdata" -> "Resize/move".
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I decided to go with 32GB which should be plenty, how large you want to make this
partition is entirely up to you.

The next thing we're going to do is move the partition down the stack, we do this
by entering "0" into the "free space following" field.
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You'll notice the white box surrounded by the dark purple border has moved position
to the far right to reflect your changes.. hit the "resize/move" button and confirm
the warning window.

You can now see the "userdata" partition has moved down the stack, will be resized
to 32GB and our unallocated space has moved up.
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We're now going to repeat this process for the remaining android partitions
(without resizing tho).. starting from the "dtb" partition and working our way up
to "vendor".
Right click partition -> "Resize/move".
Modify "free space following" to "0".
Hit the "Resize/move" button.
Confirm the warning.
You get the idea.. repeat this process until you reach the "hos_data" partition.

Eventually you'll be left with something like this, note the unallocated space is
now directly under our "hos_data" partition.
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It's time to expand our fat32 partition, you can drag the black arrow on the right
hand side all the way to the end to set the maximum size.
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[EMUMMC USERS ONLY] If you intend on using emummc we can allocate some space for
the partition by entering "29856" in the "free space following field", this will
automatically reduce the partition size to accommodate the required free space..
this step is completely optional.
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[EMUMMC USERS ONLY] We need to create a new partition (right click "unallocated" ->
"new").. the only option we're going to change here is the "file system" field to
"unformatted".
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Now is the time to verify all our settings are correct before finally hitting the
apply button.. confirm the warning and let it do its thing.
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Before closing gparted, we want to take note of the drive identifier located on the
top right of the screen.. mine is "/dev/sdd", we're going to be using the next
steps.
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