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An application that allows other installed apps to be stored on a secondary partition of an SD card rather than on a device's internal storage space.

Link2SD is an application designed to provide a more robust way for users to move installed applications to their SD card, as well as proving this functionality to devices running Android versions earlier than 2.2 (when it was introduced natively). It requires an SD card with a second ext2/3/4 partition and a rooted device. Moving applications to the SD card with Link2SD is one method for dealing with a lack of internal storage space.

Note: Link2SD does not move application's private data files; it moves apk, dex (dalvik-cache) and lib files. (from the app's description at Google Play). So if you are concerned about those, you might want to look into Root # All Data2SD card.

Another interesting tool in this context is FolderMount -- which can be used in the Link2SD manner for apps storing their data on the by default: this app links from the to the internal SD card, so apps "think" they access the internal card while they are really working on the external (microSD) card. Useful if your device only has very limited space on its "internal SD".

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Why can't I link2sd the Play Store and Maps apps?

Yesterday I rooted my phone successfully (Samsung GT-S5570-Android 2.2.1), I created a second ext2 partition on my 8 GB SD card and installed the Link2SD app. The reason for doing this, was due the continuous and annoying messages about full…
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Calculate which app use more internal space among my link2sd moved apps

That's my problem: I use, happily, link2sd and after installing a lot of apps I got my internal memory full again. Now I'd like to delete apps but I have no clues on how internal space they use since I've moved them with link2sd... Any apps/hints?
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link2sd app size incorect

Hi I was wondering someone here had a solution to my problem. I have rooted my tablet, created a ext4 partition and installed link2sd. I did this because I kept running out of space. The problem I am having is that the app size is much larger in…
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Restore disappeared apps on SD linked with Link2SD?

At some point Link2SD told me that it needed to regenerate the mount script, did it and offered a fast reboot option. This caused an endless boot loop which I escaped by checking the SD card (partitions: fat32, ext4, swap) in gparted on a PC. It…
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android updated system app, how to remove the "updated" status?

link2sd can list all updated system apps. as this screenshot shows. I thought that link2sd categorize an app as UPDATED when it finds the same app in /data/app and /system/app. So I deleted the Gmail app from /system/app, and the corresponding…
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Link2SD does not select second partition

So I partitioned my 32gb micro sdhc card with USB cable, both partitions FAT32, the bigger one set as active, and when I start Link2sd it doesn't ask me to select the file system of the second partition in order to create a script there and use it…
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link2sd. Most Apps were gone after restarting

I just rooted my phone and successfully link all movable apps to my external sd's 2nd partition (ext4) using link2sd. I did a restart and everything's fine, same on the second restart... but the third time most apps disappear, only system apps are…
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mount: mounting /dev/block/vold/179:98 on /data/sdext2 failed: Device or resource busy

When I open Link2SD, it asks to recreate mount scripts: I use ext4. After a reboot, when I open the linked application, it gets stuck and black screen till reboot. I use ext4 as the 2nd partition, but it shows ext2 in Link2SD, and all my…
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Link2SD doesn't really move the apps

I have link2sd with granted root permissions and a partitioned SD card, but when I give Create Link to SD on some big app, it creates just few small files there, like 20-30mb, but the big files of the applications which some are more than 1Gb don't…
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Link2SD cannot mount second partition after re-flashing CM 11

After re-flashing a version of CM 11 I'd been using for a while with no problems on my Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G, I can't get Link2SD to mount the second partition. I'd been using Link2SD with no issues at all before. I tried uninstalling and…
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