<div dir="ltr">Follow up, follow up: Now the USB 3.0 flash drive that was failing before is working as expected for pivot overlay extroot.<div><br></div><div>Maybe unplugging / plugging the flash drive did something magical.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Sandy McArthur Jr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Sandy@mcarthur.org" target="_blank">Sandy@mcarthur.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Folow up: I tried a different USB flash drive and it worked fine.<div><br></div><div>The flash drive that failed to extroot was a Patriot Tab 16GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive:</div>
<div><a href="http://www.patriotmemory.com/product/detail.jsp?prodline=7&catid=99&prodgroupid=252&id=1372&type=23" target="_blank">http://www.patriotmemory.com/product/detail.jsp?prodline=7&catid=99&prodgroupid=252&id=1372&type=23</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The USB flash drive that did work was a USB 2 drive.</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Sandy McArthur Jr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Sandy@mcarthur.org" target="_blank">Sandy@mcarthur.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I am unable to get extroot (pivot overlay) working with 14.07-rc3 on a <a href="http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr4300" target="_blank">TP-Link TL-WDR4300</a> . In the past I have been able to with Attitude Adjustment 12.09.<div>
<br></div><div>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.</div><div>
<br></div><div>via ssh in /etc/config/fstab I've tried using:</div><div><div><br></div><div>config mount</div><div> option target /overlay</div><div> option device /dev/sda1</div><div> option fstype ext3</div>
<div> option options rw,sync</div><div> option enabled 1</div><div> option enabled_fsck 0</div></div><div><br></div><div>and </div><div><br></div><div><div>config 'mount'</div><div>
option target '/overlay'</div><div> option uuid '3aea4f6c-10cb-4ca9-919d-624f12656e37'</div><div> option enabled '1'</div></div><div><div><br></div><div>and probably several other permutations. Also, I've used the web interface.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is the wiki out of date? <a href="http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/extroot#openwrt.barrier.breaker.trunk" target="_blank">http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/extroot#openwrt.barrier.breaker.trunk</a></div>
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<div>Any guidance is appreciated.</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br>Sandy McArthur, Jr.<br><br><div>"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."</div>
<div>- Letters and Other Writings of James Madison (1865), Vol. IV, p. 491</div>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Sandy McArthur, Jr.<br><br><div>"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."</div><div>- Letters and Other Writings of James Madison (1865), Vol. IV, p. 491</div>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Sandy McArthur, Jr.<br><br><div>"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."</div><div>- Letters and Other Writings of James Madison (1865), Vol. IV, p. 491</div>
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