Expnad storage on AR750

wodgey · 2018-11-02T13:47:21.439Z

I want to expand the storage on my device. I was unaware of just how little storage this thing comes withbefore purchasing. I saw the price for an openwert device and jumped right in.

I have thrown in an 8Gb sdcard and was hoping to use it as extra space to install stuff.

I know this isn;t the right terminology but I was hoping to create a combined space for / (similar to how a striped RAID array would appear to Windows)

my plan for this little device was to create a captive-portal/hotspot all-in-one device. I can see packages for easyhotspot, coova, freeradius2.

Am I dreaming? Is this device ,with additional sdcard, man enough for the job?
Can I use the sdcard for extra storage for these roles (or for the install of the additional programs needed?)?

Johnex · 2018-11-02T18:51:51.565Z

You can basically do anything you can do in linux. You can start by formatting the card to ext4 following this guide:
https://oldwiki.archive.openwrt.org/doc/howto/storage

If i remember correctly the sdcard is not hot-swappable and is only detected on boot.

You can also move the root to the sdcard, but i don’t know about merging it like a raid:

OpenWrt Wiki – 11 Oct 16

Extroot configuration

Extroot configuration This article relies on the following: * Accessing OpenWrt CLI * Managing configurations * Managing packages * Managing services Introduction This guide describes how to configure OpenWrt to use a storage device (USB...

wodgey · 2018-11-04T16:56:15.842Z

Moving/mounting sdcard as /, is good enough for what I need. thank you.

I will look into this further.

Strato-007 · 2021-05-26T17:14:21.740Z

Hi!!

I did the change of SD card format to ext4 but I couldn’t get to work in the AR750.
I did the formating in windows 10.

What I need to do?