cyanogen with a2sd, partitioned, dalvik on sd

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Could somebody PLEASE give me walk through of the holy grail here? I have rooted my aria and loaded cyanogen nightlies many times, but when it comes time to format and get a2sd working on a partitioned card I fail miserably. I seem to run into issues when the guides mention to go into recovery and partition the card. I am running clockwork and can't find the right partition menu. I tried a method involving adb and could not get a file to push, downloaded darktremor and got an endless htc screen boot loop, and at this point my phone may as well be a missile to my computer screen. I am a noob, but not entirely unfamiliar, just some sort of help getting to that last screen where I see lots of phone memory and can finally lay off deleting apps to add one.
Thanks and I hope someone is out there willing to help!

Can't give you a link from here, but I can encourage you to look for a forum that discusses Ext3 partitioning using a live ubuntu cd. You may have rooted using a similar method. I'll try to remember to send you a link when I get home. Search until then. Post if you find it.

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Why not just use Rom Manager to partition the card?

I tried that many times but it never worked. It always hung up on the ! triangle screen. I had no problems with the live cd method.

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Found the link...

androidcommunity.com/forums/f9/how-to-create-ext2-partition-14232/

I did this but went with ext3. I actually practiced with an older SD card until I got it right. The order of partitions is important. Fat32, ext, then lswap. Read around about recommended sizes. For an 8GB card I went with 6.5gb/1gb/32m.

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Originally Posted by duckredbeard

Found the link...

androidcommunity.com/forums/f9/how-to-create-ext2-partition-14232/

I did this but went with ext3. I actually practiced with an older SD card until I got it right. The order of partitions is important. Fat32, ext, then lswap. Read around about recommended sizes. For an 8GB card I went with 6.5gb/1gb/32m.

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Skip swap. Should not need/use it on a 512K ram device.

Edit: I know specs say less - specs are wrong! Liberty has the same memory as the N1.

I did it as a precaution. My SD is waaaaaay oversized and figured I could afford to waste 32mb.

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Originally Posted by duckredbeard

I did it as a precaution. My SD is waaaaaay oversized and figured I could afford to waste 32mb.

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and I am running out of space on a 16 gb card. 12gb mp3s and 600+ pictures will do that.

Originally Posted by attn1

Skip swap. Should not need/use it on a 512K ram device.

Edit: I know specs say less - specs are wrong! Liberty has the same memory as the N1.

thanks for this attn. i had seen posts about swap on other devices and wondered if it would help my aria. i'm glad i didn't try to set it up...

Thanks everone for responding. This is where I am with the partition. So when I put the card the phone and mount sd card it shows the same amount of memory in the phone (77.26) when I added a gig of ext2 in gparted.