[MOD][TWRP][RECOVERY] Reclaim the whole free space of your system partition topic

Hello,

many users complain that since lollipop their system partition size doesn't reflect the actual system of the block device. Therefore, they can not install some extra in this partition( busybox, big gapps packages,etc.).

This is due to the system image size:
One of the parameter of your system partition is its size, but if the block device(i.e. the part of your internal storage that will be mounted for the system partition)'s size that is mounted is larger than the system partition's size than you will loose some space.

Fortunatlly resize2fs executable allows to modify an ext2,ext3,ext4 partition size:

Quote:

Originally Posted by linux man page The resize2fs program will resize ext2, ext3, or ext4 file systems. It can be used to enlarge or shrink an unmounted file system located on device. If the filesystem is mounted, it can be used to expand the size of the mounted filesystem, assuming the kernel supports on-line resizing. (As of this writing, the Linux 2.6 kernel supports on-line resize for filesystems mounted using ext3 only.).

This package simply resizes your system size to match the size of your block device size.

Instructions:

• Boot on a twrp 2.8.x.y TWRP recovery


• flash the package

Download :

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9k...daU3R4Ujg/view


Credits :

@m11kkaa from whom I took the idea