How to Use Full NAND Storage on Telstra AW1000

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hi guys,

I’m using the Telstra AW1000 router with OpenWrt.

This router has 1GB of NAND, but I can only use about 53MB of storage.

Currently, I’m using a customized OpenWrt build, so after installing some packages, I have only 32MB left. With the official OpenWrt build, the available space is around 53MB as well.

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I know I can always use a USB flash drive or other storage devices via the router’s USB port to expand disk space. But my question is:
Why can’t I use the rest of the NAND storage that’s already available on this router?

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Is there any tutorial or method to repartition the NAND or increase the usable storage space?

Thank you so much.any help is really appreciated!

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what's the deal with the bold text ?
most people can read without text being highlighted ...

same question different device - Only about 14MiB available in /overlay on ZTE MF286D 4G router, having 128MiB NAND.

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Thank you. I’ll give it a try.

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Nope - it has 1Giga-bit of NAND, ie 128 Mega-Bytes
Please show cat /proc/mtd and ubinfo -a , might be something to do with OEM dual partitioning that you get only a half.

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then the hwdata page is incorrect, should be 128MB ...

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yes, it is dual partitioning. see partition and partition_1.

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cat /proc/mtd
dev:    size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 00100000 00040000 "0:sbl1"
mtd1: 00100000 00040000 "0:mibib"
mtd2: 00080000 00040000 "0:bootconfig"
mtd3: 00080000 00040000 "0:bootconfig1"
mtd4: 00300000 00040000 "0:qsee"
mtd5: 00300000 00040000 "0:qsee_1"
mtd6: 00080000 00040000 "0:devcfg"
mtd7: 00080000 00040000 "0:devcfg_1"
mtd8: 00080000 00040000 "0:apdp"
mtd9: 00080000 00040000 "0:apdp_1"
mtd10: 00080000 00040000 "0:rpm"
mtd11: 00080000 00040000 "0:rpm_1"
mtd12: 00080000 00040000 "0:cdt"
mtd13: 00080000 00040000 "0:cdt_1"
mtd14: 00080000 00040000 "0:appsblenv"
mtd15: 00100000 00040000 "0:appsbl"
mtd16: 00100000 00040000 "0:appsbl_1"
mtd17: 00080000 00040000 "0:art"
mtd18: 06400000 00040000 "rootfs"
mtd19: 01880000 00040000 "0:wififw"
mtd20: 06400000 00040000 "rootfs_1"
mtd21: 01880000 00040000 "0:wififw_1"
mtd22: 00240000 00040000 "0:ethphyfw"
mtd23: 00100000 00040000 "0:board_data"
mtd24: 00800000 00040000 "0:arc_datadump"
mtd25: 2cbc0000 00040000 "0:arc_data"
root@Telstra_5G:~#

I can see that mtd25: 2cbc0000 00040000 "0:arc_data approximately 716 MB is unused. I can format and mount it in OpenWrt without any problem. Is there a way to make OpenWrt use this partition as rootfs_data?
I tried everything, including using extroot. Even though I was able to mount this as /overlay, I still can't use it for installing packages.Any help is appreciated.

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With extroot you should be able to install packages there.....

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I have fixed this issue. Check this link for instructions. This instructions for Telstra Arcadyan AW1000 router only.

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