How to Partition Your SD Card for Android Without PC?

The Android OS has lot of scope in development
and user flexibility. This helps developers and
users to modify the architecture of the system
and make them useful according to their will

The mobile can be modified in several ways.
Thanks the Open source by Google.

Mobiles with limited internal memory is one of
the crucial area where this flexibility comes into
play. You can extend this limit by partitioning
your SD card and expanding the ROM of your
mobile. So let us know how to partition SD card
and why is a partition needed.

What is Partitioning SD card?

In simple terms partitioning sd card is breaking
your sd card into two parts and making one
part accessible for mobile (making it as internal
memory) and other part for user. No matter
how large you make the partition, the more the
internal space more the performance of the
phone.

Why is it needed?

Primarily to increase the ROM of the mobile. To
make the device link to the newly created
partition so that it will be used by the mobile
as internal memory. By this you can link the
applications that are installed on phone
memory to the partition freeing up more
internal space. Your mobile becomes faster and
there will be lot of space available for you.

How it is done?

There are several ways by which you can
partition your SD card. You can do it by few
softwares available for PC. But in this guide I
will show you how to make a partition without
any tedious downloads and intense use of
technical skills.

Requirements

1)Rooted mobile - You mobile has to be rooted
for super user access. If your mobile isn't
rooted this will not work for you. If you want to
get your mobile rooted, contact me with your
phone name, model, OS version and baseband
number. I will be glad to help you.

2)Busy Box - Busy Box must me installed on
your mobile. This will install required
repositories for your mobile. Download Busy
Box from Play Store .

3)Aparted - This is the primary app that does
the partitioning process. Download it from
here .

NOTE: Aparted should be installed on phone
memory only. Do not move this app to SD card.

First backup your SD card to PC.
The partitioning process will
erase all you SD card contents.
So be careful before proceeding
to the process.

After the backup and installing
the required files described
above, go to settings -> storage
-> unmount the SD card. This
process will work only when you
unmount the SD card or else
you will get error.

Open Aparted and select the
tab "create" and tap on green
"plus" button. You will be
prompted to create the first
partition. This partition will be
accessible for user as external
storage.

You can select the
amount of space according to
your choice. If you are using 4
GB SD card (3.69 will accessible)
make a 2 GB first partition.

Select the type as FAT 32 and
select apply changes by pressing
options menu. This will create a
primary partition of your
desired space by erasing all the
SD card contents which is used
as external storage.

After finishing the primary
partition select tools. You will be
shown parts as part 1 and part
2 available for your SD card.

You can make several parts of
your SD card so. But preferably
go for two partitions. Higher
amount of partitions need more
technical skill.. Now the first
part is the primary partition you
made and the second part is the
remaining space which will be
used by mobile as internal
memory.

Check the check box
on the second remaining part
and tap on create under same
FAT 32 format. Now the app will
create a second partition.

That's it you have successfully
created partition on your SD
card. Reboot your device and
you can see the external storage
available similar to the space
you opted for first partition.

Install Link2SD from Google Play
Store and run the app. The app
will immediately prompt you
that second partition is found
and asks you to mount the
scripts.

Mount the script as FAT
32 and once mounting is done it
will again prompt you to reboot
the device. Reboot the mobile
and open Link2SD, select
options and check the option
'Automatically link newly
installed apps to SD'.

This will
enable the app to automatically
link your new downloaded apps
to the partition you have
created. You can also manually
link the previously installed
apps to SD by clicking on the
app in Link2SD and selecting
create link.

You can also see the partition
space by clicking options in
Link2SD and select storage info.
It will show storage details of
your phone, the partition you
have created and also the
external storage.

Now enjoy by linking as many apps you can to
partition and free up more internal memory.

You will see increased performance of your
mobile.

NOTE: This process may damage your SD card if
misused. Proceed with caution
Tip: You can also repair the damaged SD card
with Aparted app which will generally happen
by faulty connections to PC or any other error
during data transfer between SD card and PC.