Originally Posted by psirage

Thank you for offering the excellent app for free. I am running link2sd on rooted Motorola XT720 2.1.

I have the 2nd partition as 1GB ext3, mounted as /data/sdext2
mount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /data/sdext2

All the linked apps work, but sometimes after a reboot, I start having problems.
Some would force close: Eg. Amazon App, AndroXplorer, FBReader etc
Some would work but lose internet. Eg. PFinance, XScope etc
Some are always okay. Eg Facebook, FruitNinja

I see earlier post and I think I am seeing the same thing.
"Broken Android permissions may cause force closes.
Can you try to re-install one of the applications which has force close problem, and then if it works create link again with Link2SD."

Reinstalling applications definitely makes the problems go away. But having to reinstall all these apps are time consuming, and I have to put back all the shortcuts.

Is anybody seeing this issue? Is there a way to prevent the apps from losing permission, such as extra argument to the mount command or use ext2 instead of ext3?

Thanks.

We are having the same phone . However , my linked application will only experience force close when the sdcard was unable to be detected for some reasons during boot time . I've discuss with bakpinar and tried a lot of solution as well including fix permission , run a command , using root tools , rom manager and a more , but none of them seem to be work , so you don't have to waste time testing with the methods i've mentioned . However , recently i found an application named "root and me" . Well , i don't know what is that thing but in the description , it was written "*NEW UPDATE FIXES APP CRASH AND FIXES UNNECESSARY PERMISSIONS! DISREGARD COMMENTS!" . I haven't try with it yet . Perhaps you can try using that to FIX UNNECESSARY PERMISSIONS ? And if you have tried and it works , please let me know . If it doesn't work as well , you don't have to worry much because bakpinar is about to release a new version with multi-select function , maybe there is an option to reinstall (hope so) ?

Hi,

Thank you for very useful app.
I installed Google Earth and Link2sd worked fine. But I found that the lib directory in data/data takes 16 mb. Is there a way to link this one too automatically by Link2sd?

I have tried symlink and it seems to work but it's a manual process.

Thanks

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Originally Posted by Bling_Diggity

Getting this error message:

"Create Link Failure

: cannot create /data/sdext2/AnyApp.apk: read-only file system"

For some reason sdext2 is read-only. Any idea how to fix this?

Try fix permissions in recovery mode.

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is it possible to have a link2sd version that along with apk and dalvik moves data for the linked app?

thanks

Originally Posted by durdur

Hi,

Thank you for very useful app.
I installed Google Earth and Link2sd worked fine. But I found that the lib directory in data/data takes 16 mb. Is there a way to link this one too automatically by Link2sd?

I have tried symlink and it seems to work but it's a manual process.

Thanks

Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

Yes, next release will exactly do that.

Hereby i'd like to give some information about the new version.
Iniatially I was intending to link whole data directory to SD card but I decided not to link data directory to SD card for security reasons. Let me try to explain;

Android uses the concept of a sandbox to make interapplication separation.
For this, Android uses process-level security, user and group IDs of the Linux OS.
Applications run on their own Linux process and are assigned a unique user ID.
Private data directory of the application is assigned to that app user ID and therefore another application can not access there.

If you move the private directory to SD card 2nd partition you have to keep the ownership of the files for the security.
The problem is that keeping ownership is not possible on some filesystems, for example the FAT file system has no provision for ownership or permissions.

So, instead of linking data directory I added ability to link library files to SD card.
These files can be big, even bigger than the apk files especailly for the games and linking them will free up some space on the internal storage.
I added lib size info both to main list page and app detail page so you can see how much space you'll free up if you link it.

Another improvement is that, you can link/unlink apk, dex and lib files separately, that is, you can link or unlink all three or any two of three or even only one of them.

Another new feature is to link new installed applications to SD card automatically (It will be optional, you can enable/disable this feature from the settings menu).

And release date, I hope I can release it in next week.

thanks bakpinar for this awesome app, your precious time and dedication.....

Originally Posted by bakpinar

Yes, next release will exactly do that.

Hereby i'd like to give some information about the new version.
Iniatially I was intending to link whole data directory to SD card but I decided not to link data directory to SD card for security reasons. Let me try to explain;

Android uses the concept of a sandbox to make interapplication separation.
For this, Android uses process-level security, user and group IDs of the Linux OS.
Applications run on their own Linux process and are assigned a unique user ID.
Private data directory of the application is assigned to that app user ID and therefore another application can not access there.

If you move the private directory to SD card 2nd partition you have to keep the ownership of the files for the security.
The problem is that keeping ownership is not possible on some filesystems, for example the FAT file system has no provision for ownership or permissions.

So, instead of linking data directory I added ability to link library files to SD card.
These files can be big, even bigger than the apk files especailly for the games and linking them will free up some space on the internal storage.
I added lib size info both to main list page and app detail page so you can see how much space you'll free up if you link it.

Another improvement is that, you can link/unlink apk, dex and lib files separately, that is, you can link or unlink all three or any two of three or even only one of them.

Another new feature is to link new installed applications to SD card automatically (It will be optional, you can enable/disable this feature from the settings menu).

And release date, I hope I can release it in next week.

Cheers to that mate!

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I am using OG D1 running LGB. I partitioned sd card 2nd partition is ext2 when i go to run Link2Sd i get this message... " Mount script error Mount script cannot be created. mount:No such device " any help would be appreciated.

Originally Posted by javaman70

I am using OG D1 running LGB. I partitioned sd card 2nd partition is ext2 when i go to run Link2Sd i get this message... " Mount script error Mount script cannot be created. mount:No such device " any help would be appreciated.

Try selectin ext3 option.

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Originally Posted by psirage

I see earlier post and I think I am seeing the same thing.
"Broken Android permissions may cause force closes.
Can you try to re-install one of the applications which has force close problem, and then if it works create link again with Link2SD."

Reinstalling applications definitely makes the problems go away. But having to reinstall all these apps are time consuming, and I have to put back all the shortcuts.

Is anybody seeing this issue? Is there a way to prevent the apps from losing permission, such as extra argument to the mount command or use ext2 instead of ext3?

Thanks.

It's easy to fix and you don't have to reinstall all the apps either.

Download ROM Manager from Android Market and then run ROM Manager, click on Fix Permissions under Utilities which will fix file system permissions including Force Close problems.