34.1.2. Android /data partition
When I install an app like F-Droid, it goes under /data according to:
find / -iname '*fdroid*'
and it persists across boots.
/data is behind a RW LVM device:
/dev/block/dm-0 on /data type ext4 (rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,noatime,errors=panic,data=ordered)
but TODO I can’t find where it comes from since I don’t have the CLI tools mentioned at:
However, by looking at:
./run-android -- -help
we see:
-data <file> data image (default <datadir>/userdata-qemu.img
which confirms the suspicion that this data goes in userdata-qemu.img.
To reset images to their original state, just remove the qcow2 overlay and regenerate it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54446680/how-to-reset-the-userdata-image-when-building-android-aosp-and-running-it-on-the
Tested on: 8.1.0_r60.