Hi all,
I'm quite new to OpenWRT and want to try it out with a TL-WR841N v8.x. I'm asking my question here because the OpenWRT website redirects to this board.
Because I don't want to use root
for administrating OpenWRT I had to insatll the sudo
package. Even installing only this one additional package it seems that there is no more space left:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 576.0K 428.0K 148.0K 74% /
/dev/root 2.3M 2.3M 0 100% /rom
tmpfs 14.0M 1.1M 12.8M 8% /tmp
/dev/mtdblock3 576.0K 428.0K 148.0K 74% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay 576.0K 428.0K 148.0K 74% /
tmpfs 512.0K 0 512.0K 0% /dev
My first idea was to uninstall LuCI because I don't want to a web interface (which I even could not secure with SSL at the moment because there would be no space to install luci-ssl
) but as I understoof FAQ this is not possible:
By removing packages you installed after flashing OpenWrt onto your Router. You cannot remove packages on the SquashFS partition, which is included in the image you flashed.
So now I have 3 possibilites:
- Use
root
instead of a custom root-account. - Buy new hardware.
- Compile OpenWRT on my own without LuCI.
- Are there any other possibilities to get more space I maybe forgot to try?
- If I would try to comile OpenWRT on my own: Why there are 2 compiling tutorials:
- https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/additional-software/imagebuilder
- https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/quickstart-build-images
and which one should I use?
- Will compiling OpenWRT on my own without LuCI give me enough additional space for
sudo
,screen
and the additional packages I would like to have maybe later?
Thank you for OpenWRT/LEDE (and merging the communities again)!
Edit: Removed links for my used OpenWRT image and FAQ because of board restrictions for new users.