X86 disk space management

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I installed openwrt on a Dell laptop and expanded the disk space to 73.56 GB but the temp space and /boot have not increased. Can I and do I need to increase Temp and /boot? If so how can it be done? Also where are opkg packages installed? Thanks.

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Did you expand temp and boot partitions after expanding the disk space?

No.

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Tmp is RAM.

Why would you want to extend boot ?

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Where are the opkg packages installed? Thanks

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Not in the ones that weren't extended.

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Packages live in the rootfs partition, so / in your picture. The /boot partition only contains the grub files and Linux image needed to start the system:

$ find /boot
/boot
/boot/grub
/boot/grub/boot.img
/boot/grub/core.img
/boot/grub/grub.cfg
/boot/vmlinuz

The next time you do sysupgrade, your whole partition table will be overwritten and the rootfs partition resized to the default 104 MB, so increasing its size using external tools is sort of a waste of effort.

(You can easily generate x86 images with a larger rootfs partition by using the Attended Sysupgrade clients. See https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/sysupgrade.owut#expanding_root_file_system for more.)