Replacing overlay device on WNDR4300

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I got lost in the layers that make up /overlay. Here's what I want to do:

Because my /overlay is getting full (it's only about 14 MB on the Netgear WNDR4300) I want to replace the device with the much larger (96 MB) MTD11:

dev: size erasesize name
mtd8: 01700000 00020000 "ubi"
mtd11: 06000000 00020000 "reserved"

MTD8 contains rootfs and rootfs_data. I want to migrate the latter to MTD11.

Can somebody please walk me through the process to prepare MTD11 and relocate ubi0_1?

Thanks a lot!

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Upgrade to 21.02.

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Is 21.02 really ready for prime time? It's not even mentioned on the welcome page.

And maybe you can tell what 21.02 gives me? Does it automatically use MTD11?

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You can try 21.02-SNAPSHOT currently, and rc1 is around the corner.

It concatenates them.

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I see a few targets already in 21.02.1-rc1. But no ar71xx there or in SNAPSHOT. Has that target been renamed? Or will it be added at a later point, like when rc1 is ready?

Sorry to pester you like that, but I have no idea where such things are documented.

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It's ath79

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Thanks, @vgaetera!

I found this already, it uses an external storage device while I want to employ the (as of 18.06) unused 96 MB flash partition.

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It should work with any storage as long as you format and configure it properly.

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I've installed 21.02.1-rc1. It looks quite promising. I'll switch over from 18.06.2 next week.

BTW, what's the best way to be alerted when RC2 comes out?