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USB Storage

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:52 am
by florachan
Since now gargoyle been using the latest OpenWrt version to 8.09.2 ,

I was wondering how do go about attaching a USB storage device to the router? I hope someone experience in attaching usb storage device can help me here.


I am using ASUS WL500 Premium V2 with two USB port


1) Do the hard disk need to be in specific file format eg. ext2, ex3 or
it can be FAT32 or NTFS?

2) Do I have to install any extra package onto the router for usb support?

3) When I attached the external USB hard disk to it, do I have to type anything to mount it or Do I have to mount it manually? If I need to mount , is there an Automount script that I can use?


Help will be much appreciated thanks

Re: USB Storage

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:10 am
by florachan
help anyone? :)

Re: USB Storage

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 5:59 am
by Hannibal
you'll need some packages to access ntfs or vfat

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kmod-fs-vfat
kmod-fs-ntfs
ntfs-3g
then you have to mount it manually by console

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mount <src> <dst>
maybe you need to specify fs-type by using "-t"-parameter

to automount the device on system startup edit /etc/config/fstab