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Author Topic: OpenWRT storage space  (Read 63551 times)

mtlathome

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OpenWRT storage space
« on: September 06, 2025, 09:45:21 PM »
Hi, back again for some help. I’ve installed OpenWRT onto my M.2 drive, but it’s only giving me 126 MB of space when it should be 500 MB. Is there anything I can do without deleting the current network setup and starting over?
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Re: OpenWRT storage space
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2025, 07:51:34 PM »
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Re: OpenWRT storage space
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2025, 09:17:42 PM »
I'm lost with this now. I had to install the NVMe drive into my PC in order to install OpenWRT, as I didn’t know how to get it installed any other way. Everything was a bit too much to understand.

This is a working router would I need to edit the partition and reinstall the router OS, or can I just SSH into the router and edit the partition that way? I'm just trying to make sense of it all. It's still blowing my mind.
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Re: OpenWRT storage space
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2025, 12:47:59 AM »
This is one reason I moved on from OpenWRT, its such a hassle to deal with compared to pfSense/OPNsense where installs and updates are done similar to normal Linux/BSD distros.  OpenWRT is first and foremost designed for actual routers where the layout of the storage is fixed per model supported.
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Re: OpenWRT storage space
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2025, 07:34:27 AM »
I do find OpenWRT probably the best open source project I have tried for wifi access point and VLAN switch management.

But it has the same flaw as similar projects have, in that its not a normal linux configuration, its a portable variant, where binaries are feature limited, and many packages not available.  As an example on my WAX 206 running OpenWRT I cant even do basic things like toggling flow control, because on OpenWRT its hard coded, instead of a variable like BSD and normal Linux.

But I understand why its done this way, it historically has had to work on very low spec hardware, with limited RAM and storage, and the partition limitations are usually to maintain compatibility with vendor firmware in case you want or need to flash back to it.
« Last Edit: October 16, 2025, 10:25:56 PM by Chrysalis »
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Re: OpenWRT storage space
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2025, 04:00:30 PM »
Vast majoirty of Openwrt is built for the smallest supported devices, 8/64 like the https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/td-w8970_v1
I've got Google WiFi with 4GB flash that I have full access to thanks to Openwrt but that's very much an outlier device.
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