[Q] Resize internal partitions

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Hi,
This has been asked many times before with no real solution that applies to different devices.

I'm running out of space on my /system partition and can't install any more apps even though I don't have that many installed.

I want a way to re-size the Android partitions manually to whatever size I want. Or just delete all current partitions and create new ones.

How do I do that? Is there any GUI partitioning tools similar to the ones available for Windows?

I don't want to move files from /system to another partition. I want to change the partition size.

My current /system partition:

For what reason are you moving apps to /system? You can't install them there, you have to push/move them there, installs go to /data. So keep them in /data, where they're installed by default. You have tons of space available there.

Partition table (start addresses and sizes) is hard-coded in bootloader, and can be redefined in kernel boot parameters (in this case recovery needs to be recompiled with the same parameters too, otherwise it won't write to the same partitions the kernel will read from). You're welcome to hack any of those. As you could probably understand from this paragraph, I wouldn't expect having GUI tools for that.

Thanks for the reply.
I'm not trying to move apps to /system. I thought apps are installed there by default because every time I try to install a new app it gives me an error message saying that there is not enough space on /system.

Now I know that apps are not installed in /system.

I just need more space in /system so I can install new apps without any errors.

What can I do to get more space on /system partition? Can I replace the bootloader?

I don't have any Android programming experience. I probably need something that is available out there to do the job.

In stock form, you shouldn't even have write permissions to /system. Nothing should be ever written there, and it can be 99.99999% utilized - there shouldn't be any free space left for anything, it shouldn't normally be used.

If you're getting that error when trying to install an app - you need to check what's reporting the error. It's not a "real" error, it means there's something wrong with your phone.

Try wiping cache partition from recovery...does this make any difference?

Jack is correct.

Swyped from my DesireS

refer to this
if this may help you http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1959691

Originally Posted by mayank88288

refer to this
if this may help you http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1959691

Way to bump a year old thread :thumbup:

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