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Posted: **Sat Jul 12, 2025 10:19 am**

Hello Community,

I upgraded my netgear wndr3700 v1 router with was initially in v1.6.0 to v1.8.1, which worked perfectly fine.
Then I upgraded from v1.8.1 directly to v1.14.0 (skipping intermediate versions) and I am facing a full storage warning message appearing in the GUI.
I tried to restore default configuration, but the message is still present.

I wanted to attach a screenshot (77.7Kb) to show the issue, but the forum chat rejected with the next status: «Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached.»

FYI, I can connect via SSH.

Thank you in advance for your support,

Posted: **Sat Jul 12, 2025 10:34 am**

Show the output of
df -h

If you want to show pictures, please host them elsewhere and link to here.

Posted: **Sat Jul 12, 2025 10:53 am**

Hi Lantis,

Thanx for your swift reply.
Here is the output:

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root@Gargoyle:~# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                 6.0M      6.0M         0 100% /rom
tmpfs                    28.5M     72.0K     28.4M   0% /tmp
tmpfs                    28.5M    120.0K     28.4M   0% /tmp/root
overlayfs:/tmp/root      28.5M    120.0K     28.4M   0% /
tmpfs                   512.0K         0    512.0K   0% /dev

BTW, I wanted to downgrade to the previous firmware v1.10.0, but now I get the following message

Firmware has been detected as incompatible with this device (wrong device OR too big OR invalid firmware format). Forcing firmware upgrade can result in a bricked device if used incorrectly. Please ensure this firmware is correct for your device

Not clear to me which image I should use (sysupgrade.bin or .img) to downgrade. Should I specify the MD5 checksum in the optional field?

Posted: **Sat Jul 12, 2025 7:04 pm**

Looks like the message is correct, not enough free flash storage resulting in RAM being mounted as the filesystem.

Before we try going backwards, could you try going forwards? You should get a little bit of space back.
https://lantisproject.com/downloads/gar ... JwbCI6MTB9

This isn’t the latest available but it’s a good start.

If you really want to go backwards
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/ins ... x.to.ath79
It is not documented, but if you have downloaded the right image and you’re sure, you should be able to force the upgrade without saving settings. It is not recommended however.

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