Smaller Emunand than 32gb?

[Chillimonster]

As the Emunand is used for Saves and user / profile data, is there a reason for it to be an exact duplicate of the SysNand (Especially if its fresh / blank / empty)

Could you make do with a 12gb emunand and free up more space on the SD Main partition?

If you can, how do you go about it and are there any downsides

(V1 Unpatched unit for info)

 

[leerz]

yes you can with hekate. it will be a yellow partition (trimmed)

i recommend doing a minimum of 8-12
i did several 4gb and it quickly fills up the space because of savedata (which cannot be moved to external storage)

 

[Chillimonster]

yes you can with hekate. it will be a yellow partition (trimmed)

i recommend doing a minimum of 8-12
i did several 4gb and it quickly fills up the space because of savedata (which cannot be moved to external storage)

So as simple as setting the slider to (say) 12GB and it will create it at that size?

Sorry for the noobish questions, i just always presumed it had to be the same saize as the original Nand.

 

[leerz]

So as simple as setting the slider to (say) 12GB and it will create it at that size?

Sorry for the noobish questions, i just always presumed it had to be the same saize as the original Nand.

oh it isn't as widely known as anyone would think, only when we had modded oleds (with 64gb) when people started to really do trimmed partition.

i have been doing the same thing as you a few months back.

 

[randy_w]

Of course you can, I'm using 12GB emummc on my oled switch right now, usable size in data management is about 10GB. If you create it with tegra explorer it will be 64GB, and I'd like to keep all my games on sd card and use emummc for save files only so it's kinda wasteful for me. Btw if you slide the slider all the way to the right it will say something like 2x XXGB that means it will create 2 partitions.

 

[impeeza]

There is a guide here on GBATemp, use the search bar, is on tutorials.

 

[00diabolic]

Can you do this after its created? Shrink it?

 

[impeeza]

Can you do this after its created? Shrink it?

yes, you can use emutool to dump to files and NxNANDManager to shrink, then use hekate to resize partition and restore the shrinked files.

 

[00diabolic]

yes, you can use emutool to dump to files and NxNANDManager to shrink, then use hekate to resize partition and restore the shrinked files.

Thanks, damn 3 tools to do it. Almost seems like it would be easier to start from scratch. IE create empty smaller nand and then copy over files to it.

 

[impeeza]

Thanks, damn 3 tools to do it. Almost seems like it would be easier to start from scratch. IE create empty smaller nand and then copy over files to it.

normally is quicker, but sometimes you have lots of games or config, so you want to keep data.

 

[Chillimonster]

Sorted my 12GB EmuNand, so thanks for the confirmation - All good at my end

 

[dsrules]

As the Emunand is used for Saves and user / profile data, is there a reason for it to be an exact duplicate of the SysNand (Especially if its fresh / blank / empty)

Could you make do with a 12gb emunand and free up more space on the SD Main partition?

If you can, how do you go about it and are there any downsides

(V1 Unpatched unit for info)

emunand is not just for saves, user data, you could install games to it just like in sys nand