Cleaning up failed opkg installs

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hello all, I recently reinstalled OpenWrt 18.06.4 r7808-ef686b7292 on my WNDR3700 V1 after an accidental brick. The router seems to be performing a lot better and I'm wondering if it's because I haven't yet set up extroot like I did on 17.XX.

I have a sneaking suspicion that I was experiencing crashed under heavy torrent load because the pendrive read/write disk I/O was affecting things. This is just a hunch however.

I'd like to re-add extroot to this new install and see how it changes things, but I mistakenly tried to install python before checking space and noticed my free space is only showing 2%. I had read online that some packages with opkg will hard fail installation but leave behind cruft so I'm wondering if anyone knows the best way to go about cleaning up a failed package install.

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Adding some relevant interesting links if anyone else cares:

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You can format the drive and start the whole procedure to add the extroot from scratch.

More than just a hunch, I'd say. Your router is pretty weak already and you add extra burden.

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New URL: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/additional-software/opkg#out_of_space

The old page is for archival purposes only and does not receive updates any more.

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just noticed now the router went readonly cuz I'm out of free space.

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well I'm comparing it to the performance now and there's a drastic difference. The things that have changed were a newer version of LEDE and not adding back extroot.

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I think the easiest solution is to do a factory reset:

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/troubleshooting/failsafe_and_factory_reset#factory_reset

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It's looking more and more clearer to me that might be the easiest option as well........too bad.

I'll do a reset tonight after taking a settings backup and report back.

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actually had some free time open up and just backed up and factory reset, took 5 min and seems to have fixed the readonly problem at least. back to about 3.57 of free space too. So I'll try extroot tonight.