How does storage space in our phone is partitioned? How can we access our storage space?
1 Answer
Most Android phones have eMMC
(flash memory), partitioned in GUID partition table (GPT
) just like a PC's hard disk. There are usually less or more 50 partitions on a latest Android phone. OS uses /system
while user uses /data
mainly. Internal SD card is /data/media
. Other partitions are smaller.
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If you have a rooted phone, you can use Linux tools (parted
, gdisk
etc.) to manipulate Android 's partition table. But that's really risky.
To fully access storage space, you need root permissions.