19.07 release kernel does not expand root-fs size (wr703n mod 16Mb)

I have TP-Link WR703N with hardware mod flash 16Mb. I used to use Openwrt builds for years. The last release which officially support that router was LEDE 17.01.7. It includes factory image which during boot proccess detects 16Mb flash and expand root-fs according real flash size. It does not depend on you take official image or create it via ImageBuilder. See logs:

[    0.000000] Linux version 4.4.182 (buildbot@builds-02.infra.lede-project.org) (gcc version 5.4.0 (LEDE GCC 5.4.0 r3101-bce140e) ) #0 Tue Jun 18 18:45:43 2019
[    0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled
[    0.000000] CPU0 revision is: 00019374 (MIPS 24Kc)
[    0.000000] SoC: Atheros AR9330 rev 1
[    0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
[    0.000000]  memory: 04000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
[    0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
[    0.000000] No valid device tree found, continuing without
[    0.000000] Zone ranges:
[    0.000000]   Normal   [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000003ffffff]
[    0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[    0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000003ffffff]
[    0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000003ffffff]
[    0.000000] Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
[    0.000000] Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 16256
[    0.000000] Kernel command line:  board=TL-WR703N  console=ttyATH0,115200 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 noinitrd
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 256 (order: -2, 1024 bytes)
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=00000000
[    0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=00000000
[    0.000000] Memory: 60296K/65536K available (3133K kernel code, 167K rwdata, 420K rodata, 304K init, 197K bss, 5240K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS:51
[    0.000000] Clocks: CPU:400.000MHz, DDR:400.000MHz, AHB:200.000MHz, Ref:25.000MHz
[    0.000000] clocksource: MIPS: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 9556302233 ns
[    0.000014] sched_clock: 32 bits at 200MHz, resolution 5ns, wraps every 10737418237ns
[    0.007888] Calibrating delay loop... 265.42 BogoMIPS (lpj=1327104)
[    0.089136] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.093943] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.100373] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.111142] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[    0.119538] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes)
[    0.127428] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    0.132199] MIPS: machine is TP-LINK TL-WR703N v1
[    0.412254] clocksource: Switched to clocksource MIPS
[    0.417457] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    0.421712] TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.427414] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.433725] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
[    0.440167] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.445908] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.452523] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    0.463254] Crashlog allocated RAM at address 0x3f00000
[    0.489827] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[    0.494288] jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[    0.507712] io scheduler noop registered
[    0.510186] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[    0.515680] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 16 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[    0.525875] ar933x-uart: ttyATH0 at MMIO 0x18020000 (irq = 11, base_baud = 1562500) is a AR933X UART
[    0.534056] console [ttyATH0] enabled
[    0.534056] console [ttyATH0] enabled
[    0.540850] bootconsole [early0] disabled
[    0.540850] bootconsole [early0] disabled
[    0.555900] m25p80 spi0.0: found w25q128, expected m25p80
[    0.559855] m25p80 spi0.0: w25q128 (16384 Kbytes)
[    0.566275] 5 tp-link partitions found on MTD device spi0.0
[    0.570393] Creating 5 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":
[    0.575242] 0x000000000000-0x000000020000 : "u-boot"
[    0.582215] 0x000000020000-0x000000157b94 : "kernel"
[    0.588197] 0x000000157b94-0x000000ff0000 : "rootfs"
[    0.594187] mtd: device 2 (rootfs) set to be root filesystem
[    0.598446] 1 squashfs-split partitions found on MTD device rootfs
[    0.604662] 0x000000390000-0x000000ff0000 : "rootfs_data"
[    0.612465] 0x000000ff0000-0x000001000000 : "art"
[    0.618173] 0x000000020000-0x000000ff0000 : "firmware"
[    0.643035] libphy: ag71xx_mdio: probed
[    1.233969] ag71xx ag71xx.0: connected to PHY at ag71xx-mdio.1:04 [uid=004dd041, driver=Generic PHY]
[    1.242752] eth0: Atheros AG71xx at 0xb9000000, irq 4, mode:MII
[    1.250054] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[    1.258135] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    1.261194] bridge: automatic filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables has been deprecated. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you need this.
[    1.273952] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[    1.280003] hctosys: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
[    1.290436] VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 31:2.
[    1.298469] Freeing unused kernel memory: 304K
[    2.621769] init: Console is alive
[    2.624117] init: - watchdog -
[    3.849200] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules-boot.d/*
[    3.959662] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[    3.963892] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[    3.969141] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[    3.980897] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[    3.987993] ehci-platform: EHCI generic platform driver
[    3.991878] ehci-platform ehci-platform: EHCI Host Controller
[    3.997632] ehci-platform ehci-platform: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[    4.007554] ehci-platform ehci-platform: irq 3, io mem 0x1b000000
[    4.022317] ehci-platform ehci-platform: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[    4.028470] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[    4.031318] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[    4.036060] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules-boot.d/*
[    4.052609] init: - preinit -
[    4.867536] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[    4.900156] random: procd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read, 7 bits of entropy available)
Press the [f] key and hit [enter] to enter failsafe mode
Press the [1], [2], [3] or [4] key and hit [enter] to select the debug level
[    7.573737] eth0: link up (100Mbps/Full duplex)
[    7.576848] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[    8.075746] mount_root: jffs2 not ready yet, using temporary tmpfs overlay
[    8.086850] urandom-seed: Seed file not found (/etc/urandom.seed)
[    8.367286] eth0: link down
[    8.383844] procd: - early -
[    8.385396] procd: - watchdog -
[    9.071339] procd: - watchdog -
[    9.073506] procd: - ubus -
[    9.210892] random: ubusd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read, 15 bits of entropy available)
[    9.317514] random: ubusd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read, 15 bits of entropy available)
[    9.325806] random: ubusd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read, 15 bits of entropy available)
[    9.334121] random: ubusd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read, 15 bits of entropy available)
[    9.343534] random: ubusd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read, 15 bits of entropy available)
[    9.351914] random: ubusd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read, 15 bits of entropy available)
[    9.361143] random: ubusd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read, 15 bits of entropy available)
[    9.370106] random: ubusd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read, 15 bits of entropy available)
[    9.379271] procd: - init -
Please press Enter to activate this console.
[    9.816832] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[    9.828007] ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[    9.847105] Loading modules backported from Linux version wt-2017-01-31-0-ge882dff19e7f
[    9.853737] Backport generated by backports.git backports-20160324-13-g24da7d3c
[    9.865578] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[    9.880470] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (946 buckets, 3784 max)
[    9.930415] xt_time: kernel timezone is -0000
[   10.012147] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[   10.018436] NET: Registered protocol family 24
[   10.100613] ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9330 Rev:1 mem=0xb8100000, irq=2
[   10.256464] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[   11.505798] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read, 19 bits of entropy available)
[   20.609854] jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): End of filesystem marker found at 0x0
[   20.642344] jffs2_build_filesystem(): unlocking the mtd device... done.
[   20.647497] jffs2_build_filesystem(): erasing all blocks after the end marker...
[   25.597375] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
[   25.634225] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): br-lan: link is not ready
[   27.983773] eth0: link up (10Mbps/Full duplex)
[   27.986827] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state
[   27.992220] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state
[   28.043702] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): br-lan: link becomes ready
[   29.982527] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state
[   30.983670] eth0: link up (100Mbps/Full duplex)
[   67.057207] done.
[   67.057736] jffs2: notice: (911) jffs2_build_xattr_subsystem: complete building xattr subsystem, 0 of xdatum (0 unchecked, 0 orphan) and 0 of xref (0 dead, 0 orphan) found.
[   72.519791] random: nonblocking pool is initialized


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=== WARNING! =====================================
There is no root password defined on this device!
Use the "passwd" command to set up a new password
in order to prevent unauthorized SSH logins.
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root@LEDE:/# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                 2.3M      2.3M         0 100% /rom
tmpfs                    29.6M     48.0K     29.5M   0% /tmp
tmpfs                    29.6M     48.0K     29.5M   0% /tmp/root
tmpfs                   512.0K         0    512.0K   0% /dev
/dev/mtdblock3           12.4M    468.0K     11.9M   4% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay       12.4M    468.0K     11.9M   4% /

Unfortunatly Release 18 does not support WR703N officially compiled, just via full rebuild.
In Release 19.07 officially compiled kernel for WR703N was returned and we now get ability to build image via ImageBuilder. But unfortunally it does not expand root-fs size. Is it expected behaviour for Linux with DTS structure or not ? See log:

[    0.000000] Linux version 4.14.162 (builder@buildhost) (gcc version 7.5.0 (OpenWrt GCC 7.5.0 r10860-a3ffeb413b)) #0 Mon Jan 6 16:47:09 2020
[    0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled
[    0.000000] CPU0 revision is: 00019374 (MIPS 24Kc)
[    0.000000] MIPS: machine is TP-Link TL-WR703N
[    0.000000] SoC: Atheros AR9330 rev 1
[    0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
[    0.000000]  memory: 04000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
[    0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
[    0.000000] Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
[    0.000000] Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes
[    0.000000] Zone ranges:
[    0.000000]   Normal   [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000003ffffff]
[    0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[    0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000003ffffff]
[    0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000003ffffff]
[    0.000000] random: get_random_bytes called from 0x804776ec with crng_init=0
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 16256
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyATH0,115200 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 256 (order: -2, 1024 bytes)
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=00000000
[    0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=00000000
[    0.000000] Memory: 58924K/65536K available (3544K kernel code, 144K rwdata, 492K rodata, 1188K init, 203K bss, 6612K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS: 51
[    0.000000] CPU clock: 400.000 MHz
[    0.000000] clocksource: MIPS: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 9556302233 ns
[    0.000014] sched_clock: 32 bits at 200MHz, resolution 5ns, wraps every 10737418237ns
[    0.007914] Calibrating delay loop... 265.42 BogoMIPS (lpj=1327104)
[    0.092720] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.097655] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.103979] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.116931] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[    0.125382] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes)
[    0.131538] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[    0.140166] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    0.175960] clocksource: Switched to clocksource MIPS
[    0.181201] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    0.185461] TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.191162] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.197483] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
[    0.204001] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.209685] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.216241] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    0.225941] Crashlog allocated RAM at address 0x3f00000
[    0.232043] workingset: timestamp_bits=30 max_order=14 bucket_order=0
[    0.245477] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[    0.249930] jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[    0.274000] io scheduler noop registered
[    0.276548] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[    0.282135] ar7200-usb-phy usb-phy: phy reset is missing
[    0.287648] pinctrl-single 18040028.pinmux: 64 pins at pa b8040028 size 8
[    0.295142] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 16 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[    0.304008] 18020000.uart: ttyATH0 at MMIO 0x18020000 (irq = 9, base_baud = 1562500) is a AR933X UART
[    0.312278] console [ttyATH0] enabled
[    0.312278] console [ttyATH0] enabled
[    0.319099] bootconsole [early0] disabled
[    0.319099] bootconsole [early0] disabled
[    0.350271] m25p80 spi0.0: w25q128 (16384 Kbytes)
[    0.353578] 3 fixed-partitions partitions found on MTD device spi0.0
[    0.359893] Creating 3 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":
[    0.364651] 0x000000000000-0x000000020000 : "u-boot"
[    0.370879] 0x000000020000-0x0000003f0000 : "firmware"
[    0.376159] 2 tplink-fw partitions found on MTD device firmware
[    0.380626] Creating 2 MTD partitions on "firmware":
[    0.385586] 0x000000000000-0x00000015be42 : "kernel"
[    0.391669] 0x00000015be44-0x0000003d0000 : "rootfs"
[    0.396637] mtd: device 3 (rootfs) set to be root filesystem
[    0.401148] 1 squashfs-split partitions found on MTD device rootfs
[    0.407367] 0x000000350000-0x0000003d0000 : "rootfs_data"
[    0.413832] 0x0000003f0000-0x000000400000 : "art"
[    0.419603] libphy: Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
[    0.756442] libphy: ag71xx_mdio: probed
[    0.759831] libphy: ar8xxx-mdio: probed
[    0.765323] switch0: Atheros AR724X/AR933X built-in rev. 2 switch registered on mdio-bus.0
[    1.147713] ag71xx 19000000.eth: connected to PHY at mdio-bus.0:1f:04 [uid=004dd041, driver=Generic PHY]
[    1.156780] eth0: Atheros AG71xx at 0xb9000000, irq 4, mode: mii
[    1.164734] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[    1.174075] Segment Routing with IPv6
[    1.176535] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    1.180792] bridge: filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables is no longer available by default. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you need this.
[    1.194566] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[    1.201519] usb_vbus: disabling
[    1.209680] VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 31:3.
[    1.224493] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1188K
[    1.227596] This architecture does not have kernel memory protection.
[    2.555978] random: fast init done
[    2.809888] init: Console is alive
[    2.812150] init: - watchdog -
[    4.627289] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules-boot.d/*
[    4.964546] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[    4.968806] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[    4.974018] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[    4.989484] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[    5.002559] ci_hdrc ci_hdrc.0: EHCI Host Controller
[    5.006128] ci_hdrc ci_hdrc.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[    5.036000] ci_hdrc ci_hdrc.0: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[    5.041188] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[    5.044317] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[    5.050070] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules-boot.d/*
[    5.066562] init: - preinit -
[    6.132420] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[    6.577813] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[    6.633473] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[    6.921680] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
Press the [f] key and hit [enter] to enter failsafe mode
Press the [1], [2], [3] or [4] key and hit [enter] to select the debug level
[    8.977879] eth0: link up (100Mbps/Full duplex)
[    8.981005] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[   10.904017] mount_root: jffs2 not ready yet, using temporary tmpfs overlay
[   10.948891] urandom-seed: Seed file not found (/etc/urandom.seed)
[   10.991968] eth0: link down
[   11.011289] procd: - early -
[   11.012876] procd: - watchdog -
[   11.935512] procd: - watchdog -
[   11.937803] procd: - ubus -
[   12.563755] urandom_read: 5 callbacks suppressed
[   12.563767] random: ubusd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[   12.890145] random: ubusd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[   12.897288] procd: - init -
Please press Enter to activate this console.
[   13.943921] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[   13.975678] ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[   14.004476] Loading modules backported from Linux version v4.19.85-0-gc63ee2939dc1
[   14.010674] Backport generated by backports.git v4.19.85-1-0-g8a8be258
[   14.039518] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[   14.067903] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (1024 buckets, 4096 max)
[   14.241046] xt_time: kernel timezone is -0000
[   14.393583] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[   14.407941] NET: Registered protocol family 24
[   14.518753] ath: phy0: Unable to initialize hardware; initialization status: -5
[   14.524628] ath9k 18100000.wmac: failed to initialize device
[   14.530353] ath9k: probe of 18100000.wmac failed with error -5
[   14.586579] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[   14.736707] urngd: v1.0.2 started.
[   15.030243] random: crng init done
[   72.577802] jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): End of filesystem marker found at 0x0
[   72.583241] jffs2_build_filesystem(): unlocking the mtd device...
[   72.598530] done.
[   72.605178] jffs2_build_filesystem(): erasing all blocks after the end marker...
[   74.706131] done.
[   74.714127] jffs2: notice: (974) jffs2_build_xattr_subsystem: complete building xattr subsystem, 0 of xdatum (0 unchecked, 0 orphan) and 0 of xref (0 dead, 0 orphan) found.
[   75.117662] overlayfs: upper fs does not support tmpfile.
[   76.900764] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered blocking state
[   76.904543] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered disabled state
[   76.910350] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
[   76.928418] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): br-lan: link is not ready
[   80.017961] eth0: link up (10Mbps/Full duplex)
[   80.021043] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered blocking state
[   80.026236] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state
[   80.054867] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): br-lan: link becomes ready
[   82.097334] eth0: link down
[   82.099625] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered disabled state
[   83.139396] eth0: link up (100Mbps/Full duplex)
[   83.142532] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered blocking state
[   83.147788] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state



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=== WARNING! =====================================
There is no root password defined on this device!
Use the "passwd" command to set up a new password
in order to prevent unauthorized SSH logins.
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root@OpenWrt:/# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                 2.0M      2.0M         0 100% /rom
tmpfs                    29.4M     60.0K     29.3M   0% /tmp
tmpfs                    29.4M     32.0K     29.3M   0% /tmp/root
tmpfs                   512.0K         0    512.0K   0% /dev
/dev/mtdblock4          512.0K    216.0K    296.0K  42% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay      512.0K    216.0K    296.0K  42% /

The DTS hardcodes partition sizes and locations, no automatic detection is taking place (and bootloader provided cmdlines are ignored) - so all as expected.

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Yes that is expected.
The AR71xx builds have dynamic partitioning code (tplinkparts.c) in the kernel. Ath79 complies with mainstream Linux to not have model-specific code in the kernel.