RE305 v1 - low free disk space

Hello, I have just installed OpenWRT 24.10.0 on my TP-Link RE305 v1. It is working...but there is extremely low free disk space. I wasn't even able to finish updating packages that were present by default.

I know it's a 8/64MB device, but this is bit much, no? I have installed only one very small package (few KB). Is this normal? Were partitions created correctly?

Everything is correct. Partitions are fixed in kernel configuration.

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thank god for the low flash space - https://openwrt.org/meta/infobox/upgrade_packages_warning

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make cknf backup, reflas with standard sysupgrade without package updates, restore config and show space

First of all thanks to both. :slightly_smiling_face: :+1:

Huh, so updating packages is actually discouraged? I understand that, for example in my case, device can run out of free space which would cause trouble, but not keeping the software package up-to-date seems strange to me.

Generally speaking, why wouldn't want you keep packages up-to-date? What is the "correct" way for packages to update then? By updating to newer version of OpenWRT when it's released?

Yes. Precisely. If there is a need to update an individual package, it will be discussed in the announcements section with instructions to do it safely.

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You can use owut or luci-app-attendedsysupgrade` to upgrade all at once

Hi, sorry for my late response.

I did sysupgrade (kept settings), but I did it by manually downloading sysupgrade package from device's OpenWRT page. After upgrade i just installed luci-proto-relay package (size 2,43KiB).

I can do it with owut or via luci-app-attendedsysupgrade, if it would make any difference. :slight_smile:

Based on you screenshot, you got 180kb left ?

Yup, that's is correct.

I misunderstood your post, but it's a 8/64 device, don't expect tons of storage.

Luci proto relay dependency is a bit larger.

Yeah, sure. I was just bit surprised that storage was just 448KiB in total.

I got re200 which has a meg and some

Hmm..that's a 8/64 device as well. I wonder why storage on your RE200 is almost 3x bigger than on mine RE305..

BTW can I ask what is your setup with RE200? Do you use it as WiFi bridge? If yes, can I ask what performance do you get? I'm asking because I was expecting bit more than 50Mbps. :slightly_smiling_face:

Well it is free space after system partitions and openwrt, basic wpad swapped for normal, wired extender not removing packages