davidheis

I am about to create a secondary partition on my micro sd card. Will my android phone automatically mount all partitions when the card is inserted? Or will I need to manually mount the second partition via adb or terminal emulator?

h4x0rj3ff

thats a good question. i dont see why it wouldnt auto mount if it picks it up. the problem is it might not pick the second partition up. let me poke around the net and see what i can come up with

EDIT: ive added an ext3 partition to one of my sd cards for apps2sd and it mounted fine. are you trying to create a similar situation? or are you formatting the second partition in fat32?

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Last edited by h4x0rj3ff; December 15th, 2012 at 09:56 AM.

davidheis

...well, you see, I'm trying to run Ubuntu on my phone (the Linuxonandroid thing). But my phone does not support loop mount. So instead, I'm going to use the second sdcard partition for the Ubuntu system. What do you think about this method?
The bootscript uses ext2 for the loop device. So I guess the secondary partition has to be ext2 too.
And thank you for your quick response.

Last edited by davidheis; December 15th, 2012 at 10:32 AM.

h4x0rj3ff

i dont know i think your over my head. lol ive ran linux (lde or something like that) in an emulator but never natively. i *think* you NEED loop back support but im really not sure. ive ran winCE on my one tablet by installing an img to an sd card but im pretty sure thats different then what you want to do. ill see if i can find the link to the emulator. it might be something your interested in as i do think you can install ubuntu this way also

davidheis

haven't you heard of the Linux On Android project? LinuxonAndroid . Everybody's running popular linux distros on their phones and tablets!!! So why not I try it too? Check it out yourself!