USB thumbdrive - not sure about the automount

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 1:59    Post subject: USB thumbdrive - not sure about the automount Reply with quote
IIRC, there was a time where the partitons where all at 100% The JFFS is above 2321 %

I reformatted all partitions on the thumbdrive (on my PC, using Mini Partion Tool, EXT4), rebooted the router and then reinstalled the thumbdrive.

Is this normal ? What should I do ?

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 5:01    Post subject: Reply with quote
thumb drives (usb) usually use ext2
for sata hdd/ssd ext3 or ext4...
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 6:54    Post subject: Reply with quote
It is normal, and as @Alozoros mentioned it is better to use ext2 for USB flash drives, ext4 is a journaling file systems with a lot of read /writes and that wears out the flash ram
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 9:12    Post subject: Reply with quote
Since the block size is 1K as shown in the screenshot, the partitions are already formated as ext2/ext3. I'd recommend ext4 without jounaling for usb thumb drives as dd-wrt storage.

Code:
mkfs.ext4 -O ^has_journal /dev/sdXX


/jffs usage is weird. It must be a bug on the webif. Try putting something in it.[/code]
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 11:20    Post subject: Reply with quote
wenzhuo wrote:
Since the block size is 1K as shown in the screenshot, the partitions are already formated as ext2/ext3. I'd recommend ext4 without jounaling for usb thumb drives as dd-wrt storage.

Code:
mkfs.ext4 -O ^has_journal /dev/sdXX


/jffs usage is weird. It must be a bug on the webif. Try putting something in it.[/code]


Thank you.

I am a noob in linux cmd line.

If it type this in DD-WRT command box, I get
Code:
sh: eval: line 1: mkfs.ext4: not found


If I do it with Putty, I get pretty much the same:
Code:
sh: can't open 'mkfs.ext4': No such file or directory


Which I suppose means this specific command is not part of the DD-WRT core ?

Since I dont have any Linux PC, how can I do this ?
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 11:38    Post subject: Reply with quote
It means mke2fs is not included in the dd-wrt build for your router, probably because of lack of flash space.

Install a Linux box then. You can creat a bootable live Linux system on a USB flash drive using https://rufus.ie/.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 11:57    Post subject: Reply with quote
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