TPLink Archer A7 v5.8 - very limited filesystem space

Howdy!

Brand new A7 v5.8 with 16MB of flash on 21.02 but I am stuck with only 156k of filesystem space. I ran an early revision of this hardware on OpenWRT 19, and had plenty of space to install modules.

Any suggestions on how to increase the file-system capacity?

Thanks much!

-Chris

Home made image?

nope. this was downloaded straight from here :slight_smile:

https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.2/targets/ath79/generic/openwrt-21.02.2-ath79-generic-tplink_archer-a7-v5-squashfs-factory.bin

root@OpenWrt:~# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                 3.5M      3.5M         0 100% /rom
tmpfs                    60.3M    244.0K     60.0M   0% /tmp
/dev/mtdblock5            9.3M      8.7M    580.0K  94% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay        9.3M      8.7M    580.0K  94% /
tmpfs                   512.0K         0    512.0K   0% /dev
root@OpenWrt:~#

Ok. I had originally gone from the TPlink firmware to Openwrt 21.02. I just "upgraded" using the 21.02 upgrade image and it now has plenty of space in the file system.

Found my error. Fail2BAN uses 8MB!! Don't install that.

:slight_smile:

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