Hello everyone, I bought a Linksys EA8500 router to start with Openwrt.
The flashing worked without any problems. After starting the router I saw that the drives are split into disc and temp space and in the software overview only 24mb of memory is visible.
How can I expand the memory so that I have more space for the plugins?
Many thanks for your help.
You can't.
The physical flash is 128 MB, which is partitioned by the OEM for 2*(4+36) MB (dual-boot), following the precedent of many other Linksys devices.
You can use external storage
you have the SATA/USB2.0 port & USB3.0 port
... and temp space is RAM, not flash.
Thank you for the information.
I need to use this tutorial right?
can you recommand a good usb stick for the solution.
Thanks i did not know that.
There are lots of docs about how to use USB and mounting it as external root
if you want good endurance, use a SATA SSD
the ware levelling on a 128M SSD must be a lot when you are using such a Small amount of data
I have never had a USB stick fail, but never do lots of writing
I have setup 1024M of swap, but it was only used infrequently
all of this makes it a lot harder when updating tho
sysupgrade don't really work, you end up rebuilding it all
I'm using an USB stick and got it running by following what explained here https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/storage/usb-installing and here https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/storage/usb-drives-quickstart#command_line
Hope this helps.
Thank you very much. I going to try to install a usb stick.
