I've succeed to setup an USB flash key as extra software storage / overlay on my TP-LINK 1043ND routers (v2 and v3)
Normally there's only 4MB :-)
But after restart password is cleared and some installed packages are also gone :-(
It's not a problem to set the password and install packages again.
But can someone explain why that is?
I'm also worried I don't find all the disappeared packaged....and what if some system settings/files are gone too? How can I control this?
In short I did these steps (maybe I did it wrong?):
Installed "kmod-usb-storage-extras" (needed for pivot-ovelay support, "kmod-usb-storage" is not enough)
Installed "kmod-fs-ext4" (support for ext{2|3|4} fileformat)
Installed "block-mount" (for auto-mount, fstab and also give gui in luci)
Installed "fdisk" (partition util)
Created two partitions using fdisk on dev/sda (the USB flash drive)
Installed "e2fsprogs" (disc tools e.g. format util)
Format partitions: "mkfs.ext4 -O ^has_journal /dev/sda1" and "mkfs.ext4 -O ^has_journal /dev/sda2"
Redetect USB flash partitions: "block detect > /etc/config/fstab"
Created mounts in luci:
Restart
All the above installed packages are gone (or at least not visible in luci software or doing "opkg list-installed")
I'm very confused why the overlay still works when especially these packages are gone, I would expect these are required for the USB Flash to work as overlay.?
?
(Last edited by MrBW on 8 Jul 2016, 09:03)