how to make your 3 partitions on your sd card tru adb and recovery

ok guys and  girl ama show u how to make your 3 partitions tru adb while in recovery mode

make sure you reformat your sdcard to fat32 before u move on
 
                            do not use the # that i have in front of the codes  just code the code

1)make sure you download http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.5_r3/index.html  for your adb and set it up if u dont know how to go into xda and look it up

2) make sure your sdcard has nothing in it cuz this will delete it all  nnd have a spare sdcard with a rom update in it to be able to run it for when u get done with the 3 partitions

3) reboot into recovery

4) open up adb and type adb shell ones u get the #  then type this

# parted /dev/block/mmcblk0    (hit enter)
 
# print     (to verfiy we know what size card we are dealing with, the details should be straight forward)    (hit Enter )

ones u get the hole size of your sdcard (example )  4978  a 4 gig sdcard

what u do know is take out a calculater  out of the 4978 u are going to take alway 532  u going to stay with 4446 then after u set up your codes for adb u going to have to add 500 back into the 4446  so u end up with 4946 the reason y u take alway 532 is cuz u are making the size for the swaper reason why u buy back 500 is the size for the ext3 follow know set 4

5) this is were we start making the fat32  ext3 and swap  just the codes for adb

# mkpartfs primary fat32 0 4446             see how i put the 4446 in the code i didnt put the full number that was 4978 

# mkpartfs primary ext2 4446 4946    see here how i put the 4446  and the 4946 thre u have made the ext2 but will turn into ext3 later on

# mkpartfs primary linux-swap 4946 4978     see how i put the 4946  and then i put the full sdcard size here u have made the swaper size


6) now go back to adb  if u closed it from before just do step 4 and come back here
now type this

#  rm 1    hit enter      if u already have a ext2 and a swap do the rest
#  rm 2
#  rm 3

what this dose is delete everything  u have on the sd and the old ext2 or 3 u have makes your sd new  now

7)  now we gona make the fat32 ext2/3  and swaper

# mkpartfs primary fat32 0 4446     hit enter

# mkpartfs primary ext2 4446 4946    hit enter

# mkpartfs primary linux-swap 4946 4978      hit enter

make sure u have your size in where my numbers are at  do not use the same numbers

 now  type in adb

# print       (to verify we have the 3 partitions)  if u see them there next type
# quit    hit enter

next u need to turn your ext2 into ext3 so in adb type

# upgrade_fs   hit enter       ones its done  type
#  reboot recovery   hit enter     and your done in adb  now we go to recovery

9)  now in recovery u are going to wipe thats alt-w then u are going to repair ext filesystems thats alt-f  then   wipe again and now is when the other sd comes in hand  take out your back cover and take out your sdcard with out turning off the phone  put in the sdcard with the update in it and alt-s  wait till its done updating ones it done take out the sdcard again and put back in the one with the 3 partitions  now reboot system now thats home+back and your are done


now if u ever want to change roms and try diff ones u will need to  wipe your ext3 and  alt-f every time dont know how here is how tru adb

HOW TO WIPE EXT3
# mount -o rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /system/sd
# cd /system/sd
# rm -rf /system/sd/*
# reboot recovery
  then alt-f and u are done and ready to flash a new one

hope this helped u guys out

This is alot of steps, but none the less a nice tutorial.

I do know from experience if you have Rav 1.2.1G recovery image that it will automatically partition your card

I used RA to root my MyTouch and it had the option in the recovery menu to auto partition the card.

its not hard at ALL PPL VERY EASY ONES U DO IT ONES U GET THE HANG OF IT

why would anyone want to go through a 9 step process in adb that involves installing the SDK and drivers when it can be done in 2 clicks in the Rav recovery menu?

why would anyone want to go through a 9 step process in adb that involves installing the SDK and drivers when it can be done in 2 clicks in the Rav recovery menu?

not every one has rev recovery right  thats answers your ? pluss its called doing it the right way not the lazy way and its always good to have adb

What are my gains by doing this?

what u do know is take out a calculater  out of the 4978 u are going to take alway 532  u going to stay with 4446 then after u set up your codes for adb u going to have to add 500 back into the 4446  so u end up with 4946 the reason y u take alway 532 is cuz u are making the size for the swaper reason why u buy back 500 is the size for the ext3 follow know set 4

Good lord, if you're going to take the time to write a step-be-step tutorial, could you at least take the time to make it somewhat cogent? This sort of thing is nigh-incomprehensible madness!

What are my gains by doing this?

I know my answer is super late but it is for future reference.  The recovery consoles only give you a set number for your ext and linux-swap partitions.

I had no problem with that until I installed a hero rom and i needed more space on my linux-swap partition. Its really not that hard to do either...

coool