Follow up, follow up: Now the USB 3.0 flash drive that was failing before is working as expected for pivot overlay extroot.
Maybe unplugging / plugging the flash drive did something magical. On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Sandy McArthur Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > Folow up: I tried a different USB flash drive and it worked fine. > > The flash drive that failed to extroot was a Patriot Tab 16GB USB 3.0 > Flash Drive: > > http://www.patriotmemory.com/product/detail.jsp?prodline=7&catid=99&prodgroupid=252&id=1372&type=23 > > Strangely this flash drive is working on other TP-Link TL-WDR4300 devices > I have running older A.A. OpenWrt releases. I did not test older OpenWrt > releases on this exact hardware with this USB flash drive. > > The USB flash drive that did work was a USB 2 drive. > > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Sandy McArthur Jr <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I am unable to get extroot (pivot overlay) working with 14.07-rc3 on a >> TP-Link >> TL-WDR4300 <http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr4300> . In the >> past I have been able to with Attitude Adjustment 12.09. >> >> I pluged in my USB flash drive, formated it (both ext3 / ext4), mounted >> it, duplicated the data ( tar -C /overlay -cvf - . | tar -C /mnt/sda1 -xf - >> ) and edited fstab with no love after the reboots. >> >> via ssh in /etc/config/fstab I've tried using: >> >> config mount >> option target /overlay >> option device /dev/sda1 >> option fstype ext3 >> option options rw,sync >> option enabled 1 >> option enabled_fsck 0 >> >> and >> >> config 'mount' >> option target '/overlay' >> option uuid '3aea4f6c-10cb-4ca9-919d-624f12656e37' >> option enabled '1' >> >> and probably several other permutations. Also, I've used the web >> interface. >> >> Is the wiki out of date? >> http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/extroot#openwrt.barrier.breaker.trunk >> >> Any guidance is appreciated. >> >> -- >> Sandy McArthur, Jr. >> >> "No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." >> - Letters and Other Writings of James Madison (1865), Vol. IV, p. 491 >> > > > > -- > Sandy McArthur, Jr. > > "No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." > - Letters and Other Writings of James Madison (1865), Vol. IV, p. 491 > -- Sandy McArthur, Jr. "No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." - Letters and Other Writings of James Madison (1865), Vol. IV, p. 491
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