Hi
The Quick Start for Adding a USB drive guide leads to USB devices mounted at /mnt/sda1 as a default.
Once I attempt to change the mount point to /opt through LuCI, it allows to change only to /opt/sda1.
How can I change the mount point to /opt?
Thank you.
route66:
/opt/sda1
See the section on Device Names in the Linux manual.
https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/armhf/apcs04.html
unmount it first then do the edits.
admittedly i'm running a snapshot build but you should see the custom part at bottom? put /opt
in there.
Failing that. manually edit the /etc/config/fstab
file
config mount
option target '/mnt/sda1'
option uuid '292f3823-ba8f-42bb-8821-f45cf5569341'
option enabled '1'
Change the option target line to /opt instead of /mnt/sda1
Bit more explanation.
first column is the device
so /dev/sda1 is your first detected usb drive.
Then the mount point /mnt/sda1 is the directory where it mounts that drive.
however when you use the guide it changes the /dev/sda1 into the uuid (the devices serial number).
This ensures if you put the usb drive in a different port eg /dev/sdb1 then it would still mount the drive correctly instead of failing because /dev/sda1 doesn't exist anymore.
root@OpenWrt:/opt# block info | grep "/dev/sd"
/dev/sda1: UUID="292f3823-ba8f-42bb-8821-f45cf5569341" VERSION="1.0" MOUNT="/mnt/sda1" TYPE="ext4"
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The mount point for the device will still show as /opt/sda1, /opt/sdb1, etc.
The OP stated -
route66:
Once I attempt to change the mount point to /opt through LuCI, it allows to change only to /opt/sda1.
How can I change the mount point to /opt?
You can't AFAIK.
Mine does. However like i said. I'm running a snapshot.
However if he unmounts it and manually edits the fstab file and reboots. it will mount to /opt.
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jow
February 4, 2022, 8:48am
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You can simply enter /opt
as -- custom --
value no need to manually edit any files.
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Entering /opt in Custom field, as suggested by both mercygroundabyss and jow, worked. This hadn't worked previously for me, until re-installed clean 21.02.1 stable (not snapshot).
Thanks!
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system
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February 14, 2022, 6:49pm
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