Quite out of space on mango GL-MT300N-V2

arin70 · 2022-04-28T16:12:39.133Z

I own a mango GL-MT300N-V2. I’ve installed File Sharing (from applications) and ttyd and ttyd-luci (from plugins).
Now in the GUI I read: Free space: 6% (0 MB).
Should I be worry? Is it dangerous to have a so small free space? Or temp files are written in a different partition from the one which is quite out of space?
Thank you in advance for your reply.

alzhao · 2022-04-29T09:56:16.530Z

Yes it is dangerous to have no space. When you reboot, system cannot be mounted and it will seems everything is lost.

So pls use exroot to install system on USB disk

Feuj · 2022-04-29T10:34:38.165Z

I would be interested in that too, how does ex(t)root work on the GL routers. What is necessary, is there a description?

alzhao · 2022-04-29T11:08:45.691Z

You can search the forum

The long story:
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/additional-software/extroot_configuration

The short one:
First reset the router so that you have more space.

Use a USB disk, format as ext4
plugin the USB disk to the router
Install luci, go to luci and change the mount point /overlay to your USB
Copy your current system to the USB
Reboot

elorimer · 2022-04-29T12:43:46.985Z

I don’t mean to hijack this thread, but one big use of memory in the Mango is the macvendor.db file at 1 meg. A different approach from extroot would be to shrink this file, which would create a lot more room. I have not been able to get imagebuilder to substitute a shrunken .db file–it keeps recreating the file.

arin70 · 2022-04-29T18:25:18.544Z

I confirm.
I unplugged the router and when I plugged it again it restarted at factory settings.

alzhao · 2022-05-03T06:53:24.644Z

arin70:

I unplugged the router and when I plugged it again it restarted at factory settings.

That is because the system cannot be mounted because flash is full.

So just reset the router once to fix it.

ngtimofeev · 2024-10-18T19:12:00.779Z

Hi! I'm trying to expand storage capacity on my MT300N-V2 (Mango) to install Tailscale plugin.
I use 32GB memory stick, formatted it to ext4, and set it as Mount point in Luci.

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However, the available space for plugins is still low.
Anything else I need to do? Will appreciate your advice!

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alzhao · 2024-10-21T03:10:42.165Z

Pls transfer the data as in the OpenWrt guide. https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/additional-software/extroot_configuration

ngtimofeev · 2024-10-21T20:02:28.174Z

Hi Alzhao, I've followed the guide on OpenWRT website and successfully expanded my root filesystem on Mango-v2 router. I used 32GB memory stick.
Tailscale is also up and running. Cheers👍

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andreeallg · 2024-10-23T05:06:43.275Z

Tailscale is also up and running on my Mango and I went through the same process.
My Mango appears on the Tailscale machines list on the admin console.
The problem is that I can't acess my home server through a phone connected to the Mango's wifi (which is connected to the Tailscale VPN). However, when I try to acess my Mango router trought my phone (wihch is now connected directly to the Tailscale VPN), I can acess it.

Why can I acess the Mango with the other Tailscale devices, but I can't acess the other devices (in this case the home server) with my Mango router?

deltaalpha52 · 2024-11-13T17:02:41.017Z

I applied the changes to my GL-MT300N-V2 as per the instructions on the [OpenWrt Wiki] Extroot configuration website and added a 32g usb stick.

It all seem to be okay and mango rebooted successfully.

Using df from root terminal I get sensible numbers

root@GL-MT300N-V2:~# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                12032     12032         0 100% /rom
tmpfs                    60980      1544     59436   3% /tmp
/dev/sda1             30060388      1528  28506532   0% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay    30060388      1528  28506532   0% /
tmpfs                      512         0       512   0% /dev
/dev/mtdblock6            1664       764       900  46% /rwm
/dev/sda1             30060388      1528  28506532   0% /mnt/extra

the overlay is now on my usb stick and /rwm seems to be the old overlay partition.
/mnt/extra is also mu USB stick

So far all looks good but the status window flash memory space seems a bit confused
and it says 16.00 MB Total

System Used -173899.39%(0.00 B)
Apps Used9.33%(1.49 MB)
Available173990.06%(27.19 GB)

glmango1280×887 102 KB

Current Firmware Version4.3.18

Not sure if this is just a display issue or something to be worried about.

Thanks
David