Partition resize script - add 1.2 gigs to /data

Hi all, I've altered a partition resizer flashable zip from another phone to work on our Volt.

The usual warnings apply, in particular... all data in /system, /data, and /cache will be erased if you flash this zip. You will need to restore from backup or flash a new ROM.

New partition sizes, according to df:

system - 1.51GB
data - 5.22GB
cache - 31MB

Also, grow is increased to between 96 and 128MB size (grow is a partition that fills whatever extra space is at the end of the emmc). This is for use as swap with my memory tweaks from the pokemans thread. On my phone it comes out to 128MB, and this might actually be slightly large as it doesn't quite fill that swap with useless data and seems to lag things a little bit from time to time (I notice it when switching between youtube videos).

This fits my stripped down ZV5 stock ROM, but probably won't fit the original stock ROM. I suspect most custom ROMs would fit. I don't know what happens if a stock rom tries to OTA update with a cache partition that's too small to fit the download; I've altered my build.prop so it thinks it's ZV6 and won't update.

I left a 1MB gap after data to allow for encryption to work if you use that. Someone needs a kick in the ass for coming up with that particular scheme.

I don't know if /cache is used for flashing radios... my suggestion, if you want to change radios, do it before you do this.

You can alter the sizes by changing the partition boundary locations in the update-binary script; but I don't recommend making grow more than 96MB smaller than I had it; it may not fit on all phones if you do.

I'll post a partition restore script later, I figure if you want to play with this early, you can sweat it out for a little bit if something goes wrong

If anyone tries it, let me know how it worked. I've only tried it on one phone so far, but it worked great for me.

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Partition resize script - add 1.2 gigs to /data