ASUS RT-AX53U using the empty firmware2 partition for opkg packages

I wanted to install samba4 to it but it has too few space. I've researched some, I know the risks. So I actually found out that mtd8 is empty, I even mounted it. With some mtd commands. But I want to use it as a place for samba4, it's just soo huge. Don't wanna use it for something else.

MY QUESTION is can I use opkg in such a way it also uses this place too? Like, just download samba packages here. The rest, the actual storage have to be used.
I am willing to brick this device, or succeed :slight_smile:

root@OpenWrt:~# mount
/dev/root on /rom type squashfs (ro,relatime,errors=continue)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
cgroup2 on /sys/fs/cgroup type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime)
/dev/ubi0_1 on /overlay type ubifs (rw,noatime,assert=read-only,ubi=0,vol=1)
overlayfs:/overlay on / type overlay (rw,noatime,lowerdir=/,upperdir=/overlay/upper,workdir=/overlay/work,uuid=on)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,noatime,size=512k,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,noatime,mode=600,ptmxmode=000)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime)
bpffs on /sys/fs/bpf type bpf (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,mode=700)
/dev/ubi1_0 on /mnt/mydata type ubifs (rw,relatime,assert=read-only,ubi=1,vol=0)
root@OpenWrt:~# cat /proc/mtd
dev:    size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 00080000 00020000 "u-boot"
mtd1: 00060000 00020000 "u-boot-env"
mtd2: 00100000 00020000 "nvram"
mtd3: 00100000 00020000 "factory"
mtd4: 00100000 00020000 "factory2"
mtd5: 03200000 00020000 "firmware"
mtd6: 00400000 00020000 "kernel"
mtd7: 02e00000 00020000 "ubi"
mtd8: 03200000 00020000 "firmware2"
mtd9: 01020000 00020000 "jffs2"

Practically identical AX54 has all flash allocated, probably it needs just a PR with your name on it :wink:

What do you mean? Is it not possible I want to do?