This section only shows up when your external storage device is partitioned, dividing the hard drive into more manageable sections for quicker access. This will not delete any data on the drive. Click Continue in order to use the new USB features. If you are using a previously configured hard drive, you will receive a message that a new USB or external storage feature is available. Otherwise, you may see the following message and you will not be able to configure the settings of your device: IMPORTANT: Ensure that your storage device is properly attached to the USB port of your router. The Status tab displays information about your storage device. NOTE: For a video overview of the USB/External Storage Tool, click here.īelow are the four (4) tabs found in the USB/External Storage Tool:
This tool is not available on the Linksys EA2700 N600 Dual-Band Smart Wi-Fi Wireless Router. IMPORTANT: External Storage is displayed as USB Storage among Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Routers with older firmware versions. Click here to get a copy of the downloadable files for various Linksys products. To know the supported file systems of your router, check the product specifications in the user guide. An external storage device, also called a Network Attached Storage (NAS), lets you store and share content across your network. Therefore writing one byte may cause erase and rewrite of up to 512KB.The USB/External Storage Tool of Linksys Smart Wi-Fi allows the user to easily manage an external storage device connected to it. The blocksize typically varies between 16KB and 512 KB. One more thing to consider is that flash-devices handle their space in blocks. Never choose to use a journaling file system on the SSD partitions: Bullshit, you’re just risking data security.
via an USB SDHC-adaptor) - but keep the swapiness to minimum: e.g.: MicroSD(HC) cards are a sort of a SSD: December 7, 2008, : No SWAP Partition, Journaling Filesystems, … on a SSD? Quote: ".They assume perfect wear leveling.We stay also with the 2 million cycles and assume a 16GB SSD *With 50 MByte/sec we get 20 years! *With 2 MByte/sec we get 519 years! *And even if we reduce the write cycles to 100.000 and write with 2 MByte/sec all the time we’re at 26 years!!.1. Do I need SWAP? Swap can be helpful in situations where dd-wrt: runs memory intensive applications (Optware) runs multiple background processes (again, Optware) runs on a router with less than 32 MB of RAM Swap won't really be needed if: you only use the router for its basic gateway/AP functions you only run a few additional services or applications with modest memory requirements your system has a lot of RAM (such as 64+ MB) It is strongly advised that you do not enable swapping on flash-based drives (internal flash, SD/MMC, USB sticks) The above statement is not correct for SDHC cards with built-in wear-leveling (e.g. This is especially useful on systems with very little system RAM, such as most DD-WRT compatible routers, as it helps prevent the system from running out of memory when multiple background processes are installed. What is SWAP? Swap space is an auxiliary storage, such as a portion of a hard-disk, which can be used as memory by the operating system when system RAM is insufficient. Pomidor in another post suggested using scripts to mount the drive at start-up (i could use the FAT32 FS (I've tried in the past exFAT but the speed was much lower, so I would rather not go into it)
I have attached a 4TB HDD to USB3.0 port with 2 partitions: one is personal files backup and another one is Media (movies-transmission)Īlthough there are no issues downloading "files" through transmission I get "Not enough space" error while trying to copy files from my laptop to the share.Īs the author of this post, I cannot simply move to ext4 (btw: previous experiences with ext4 gave me lower transfer speeds with shibbys builds). There are no issues if the files are downloaded by transmission
Since I've switched to FT I cannot copy any files from my Windows machine to the share.
On Shibby I had no issues whatsoever with USB HDD with NTFS partition with showing the total and free capacity, editing, moving, or copying files to it. I've seen several people posting issues with USB HDDs with windows partitions on FT so I've decided to create a new thread, to include issues I've encountered and others that will follow.īackground ( R7000 and i guess all FT releases as i remember)