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NOPE

I've told this before too, and this'll be the last time i'm telling it
There is no way to go to a non-MTD ROM if you are using a MTD ROM on the device without restocking,
I have no desire to go to a non-MTD ROM

I just wish to go from my current 2012-04-24 MTD build (built just before your recent data / system partition changes), and the most up-to-date "nightly" build from CM9 (or sgt7) repository.

I was hoping that given that I am already on MTD, there would be a script procedure to update the partitions without having to restock to non-MTD (i.e. Gingerbread BML + CWM recovery to convert to ext4).

See my point?

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only Odin can re-partition the device and it flashes the images to the NAND directly, according to the partition's address in the .pit file.
Indeed.

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You could just backup your data partition(do a full cwm backup), then restock (it does wipe sd, but you can transfer the backup before restocking), and then flash a cwm kernel, and then the new update.zip, and then use advanced restore to restore your data
Sure. Actually I use ADB and the command line for TAR'ing or DD'ing my data.

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Alternatively, you can backup and restore all apps at once by Titanium Backup (might need to purchase the pro version)
Right, I purchased Titanium Backup a long time ago, and used it a few times for full data restore in my Froyo/Gingerbread past

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And, we don't touch the real EFS partition, IBL+PBL, SBL, Param and EFS areas on the NAND remain untouched,
Ah, interesting! Thanks.

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while going from BML to MTD, EFS is copied to sdcard and then copied to the new partition.
Right, I did notice this in the update script before I moved from BML (ext4) to MTD.

Thanks cdesai!!
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