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  1. cmkelley

    Annoying follow-up USB question (mounted but not rly?)

    Yeah, I have a separate fileserver as well. I share the SSD to my fileserver, and it backs up the SSD along with all of the fileserver's data nightly to an external hard drive with rsnapshot.
  2. cmkelley

    Annoying follow-up USB question (mounted but not rly?)

    So, someone educate me here ... why NTFS on the shared partition? I guess I can sort-of understand wanting a separate partition to share, but why NTFS? What does NTFS have to offer over ext4/journaling when being shared by samba? My preference is always for native filesystems.
  3. cmkelley

    Preferred thumbdrive for scripts?

    2GB is enough, and is the maximum amtm supports creating (last time I checked).
  4. cmkelley

    The jffs partition is full

    Anecdote, when I tried that it wouldn't let me delete anything from the jffs partition. I got the same "no space left on device" error. Dunno what I did wrong.
  5. cmkelley

    Preferred thumbdrive for scripts?

    Yeah, my bad, forgot the raid 5 thing, but still quite available: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071X9XY16/?tag=snbforums-20 To each his own.
  6. cmkelley

    Preferred thumbdrive for scripts?

    fstrim exists in Entware. Is some kernel support required that's not present in asuswrt?
  7. cmkelley

    The jffs partition is full

    Run cd /jffs du -h You'll almost certainly find the traffic analyzer directory (./.sys/TrafficAnalyzer) is very large. The database that lives there is supposed to automatically stop at 30Mb, but sometimes grows until all of jffs is eaten up. Merlin has suggested TrafficAnalyzer -d 30720...
  8. cmkelley

    Preferred thumbdrive for scripts?

    Not at all necessarily home-brewed: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078YQHWYW/?tag=snbforums-20 Correct, the array isn't at all the bottleneck. It's the router's ability to get data from the array and forward it while doing all of its other tasks, on a low-memory device. His stated use case works...
  9. cmkelley

    Preferred thumbdrive for scripts?

    No, a swap file on a regular partition. Make the SSD one single partition and use amtm to create a 2Gb swap file. Wow, certainly not a choice I would make, but if it works for you, that's what matters.
  10. cmkelley

    Preferred thumbdrive for scripts?

    It's a matter of convenience. "USB stick going bad" is no longer on my list of troubleshooting steps. The flash memory on a reputable brand SSD is much better quality than that used for USB sticks, an SATA controller is more robust than the circuitry used for thumb drives, and being attached...
  11. cmkelley

    Preferred thumbdrive for scripts?

    As L&LD noted, amtm will make a swap file for you, I recommend you use a 2Gb swap, as certain scripts (skynet in particular) need large swap space for certain tasks. I think I recall someone saying swap partitions on the router aren't a good idea, but even if my memory on that is correct, I...
  12. cmkelley

    RT-AC68U_384.16 UI Freezes

    Dang. If it happens again, I'm afraid the best option at this point (and believe me, I only go to this as a last resort) is a complete wipe and start over with @L&LD's M&M config (https://www.snbforums.com/threads/noob-definition-of-minimal-and-manual-configuration.27115/#post-205573)...
  13. cmkelley

    Preferred thumbdrive for scripts?

    I'm all for SSDs myself, and I wouldn't go for the least expensive unless you absolutely HAVE to. Kingston is a good brand, personally I'd go with one of these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N6JQS8C/?tag=snbforums-20 attached tothe USB 3.0 port through one of these...
  14. cmkelley

    uiScribe uiScribe - Custom System Log page for "scribed" logs

    Right, it's just saying the /var/lib/logrotate.status file doesn't exist, so it can't open it. If it gets written to, it will open it and read from it. You can eliminate the message by just using touch /var/lib/logrotate.status to create an empty file.
  15. cmkelley

    RT-AC68U_384.16 UI Freezes

    Okay, that's new. Can you describe your setup? Obviously an AC68U, but do you have Entware/amtm/other scripts running? Do you have a swap file? What size? Is this a converted TM-AC1900? There's no way a straight AC86U with Merlin should segfault or run out of memory.
  16. cmkelley

    Best practice for new RT-AC86U - USB+SSD or only SSD?

    I'm using a 120 GB SSD, just one large partition for swap, Entware, and everything. There's really no benefit to partitioning that I can see. Format the SSD on the router using amtm, choose ext4 with journaling for the filesystem, SSDs are so fast that the journaling overhead is not noticeable...
  17. cmkelley

    What clever SSH shortcuts do you use?

    I wrote scribe entirely with vim, using amix's basic vimrc.
  18. cmkelley

    RT-AC86U - 384.16 - Frequent Crashes - Please Help

    It's hard to tell in messages, so to be clear, _I_ was the one using the No True Scotsman defense logical fallacy. The fact that yours is literally the first time I've heard of someone actually being able to use the RAM indicator for something doesn't actually make it an edge case. Apologies...
  19. cmkelley

    RT-AC86U - 384.16 - Frequent Crashes - Please Help

    Okay, so outside of your one edge case, it's doesn't tell you anything of value (the No True Scotsman defense). ;) I'm honestly surprised you could see it in ram usage, my AC86U stays at 94% all the time. It may be a function of the older kernel that the AC68U uses (2.6 vs the 4.1 in the...
  20. cmkelley

    amtm amtm - the Asuswrt-Merlin Terminal Menu

    I do the same. I copy the jffs folder to my USB SSD daily, which then gets backed up (the entire USB SSD, so entware, etc. as well) to an external spinning rust disk (okay, two of them in a mirror), using rsnapshot. I can go back a year to find a file since rsnapshot makes extensive use of...
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