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Recently, I upgraded my with a bigger SD Card with a partition of 512Mo on it.

I installed to place apps on SD card ext4 partition.

Then I had to create by hand, the mount script to have my partition used by . (certainly due to write access on /system mountage)

What I wander is if there is a way to ensure that on reboot, linked apps create their dalvik-cache directly on SD. What is happening on startup is that I need to open , select all my apps, and relink everything.

Is it a feature included in the mount script?

Or is it simply the way works?

PS: what is anoying is that the dalvik-cache takes too much place and can prevent some application from starting correctly.

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Unlikely to be possible in this context, as Dalvik cache has a fixed system-wide location (/data/dalvik-cache). So you cannot have "linked apps place their dalvik cache directly on SD". Either all or nothing. Take a look at the tag-wiki for alternative approaches which might allow to move the entire cache to your SDCard. But a selective move IMHO is impossible.

Remark: An exception to this general rule are odexed ROMs, where the .odex files sit in the same place as the app, at least for system apps. So there might be a way to do the same for "user apps" which I have missed.)

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  • Thanks @Izzy, that answered my question, for my needs I finnaly added a dummy .dc2sd file on my /sd-ext so etc/init.d/10apps2sd script move all the dalvik-cache to sd and nuke the one on internal memory.
    – Yannick
    Commented Oct 10, 2013 at 22:43
  • Thanks for your feedback, Yannick! So just for me to understand: On each boot, that script moves the Dalvik cache for the "marked" apps to SD? Doesn't that mean that on the next boot, Android will re-create it in /data/dalvik-cache? If so, what does the move improve (except for "temporary relief")? To me this looks dangerous. Imagine a few apps with a larger .dex, and think of low internal storage space when you reboot the device (because you installed one more big app, thinking you had the space) – and now Android rebuilds the .dex on internal storage, running out of space.
    – Izzy
    Commented Oct 11, 2013 at 7:14
  • The script 10apps2sd from Evervolv Project coming in my ROM mount /sd-ext/dalvik-cache as the /data/dalvik-cache so all .dex goes on sd-card. For the risk of big apps, I'll keep that in mind, I can install them on SD or make the symlinks with link2sd. So if the sd-card is not available those won't prevent system to load as system should have space.
    – Yannick
    Commented Oct 11, 2013 at 11:43
  • By the way, my HTC-Desire came with a 148Mo internal storage you might understand the need moving apps and data on external memory.
    – Yannick
    Commented Oct 11, 2013 at 11:44
  • One last thing as a feed back, don't let link2sd try to link dalvik-cache that is already present on sd-card. It will make a loop symlink on itself. :(
    – Yannick
    Commented Oct 11, 2013 at 11:46

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