Extroot configuration with no /overlay mount

[psherman]

You've got your storage mounted as /mnt/sda1 instead of /

Here's the recipe I follow:

Extroot after upgrade to latest (22.03.4)

From a completely default state, run the following: (install extroot dependencies) opkg update; opkg install block-mount kmod-usb-storage kmod-fs-ext4 reboot Plug in your USB drive and make sure it shows up: block info If it does... delete everyhing on it. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt; rm -rf /mnt; umount /mnt (you may get an error that it can't delete /mnt but that's fine) Now pivot to extroot: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt ; tar -C /overlay -cvf - . | tar -C /mnt -xf - ; umount /mnt block detect > /…