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[M@rco]

Moronic post, nothing else to see here, carry on

There's still something with amtm and Skynet when it comes to creating/recognizing a swapfile. I installed 384.3 this morning (clean install), downloaded amtm and created a 2 Gb swap. Amtm confirmed creation of it (and took the necessairy time). Next, I installed Entware-ng from within amtm. When I returned to amtm it showed me the option to create a swap (instead of deleting it). I installed Skynet, but Skynet didn't recognize any swap, so I created it during install, overwriting the previously created swapfile. Upon returning to the amtm menu, it now showed the swapfile and the option to delete it. Somehow a swapfile created with amtm isn't recognized by amtm afterwards, nor by Skynet. Yet a swapfile created in Skynet does get recognized by amtm. I know it's supposed to be the same code, but still...

 

[martinr]

There's still something with amtm and Skynet when it comes to creating/recognizing a swapfile. I installed 384.3 this morning (clean install), downloaded amtm and created a 2 Gb swap. Amtm confirmed creation of it (and took the necessairy time). Next, I installed Entware-ng from within amtm. When I returned to amtm it showed me the option to create a swap (instead of deleting it). I installed Skynet, but Skynet didn't recognize any swap, so I created it during install, overwriting the previously created swapfile. Upon returning to the amtm menu, it now showed the swapfile and the option to delete it. Somehow a swapfile created with amtm isn't recognized by amtm afterwards, nor by Skynet. Yet a swapfile created in Skynet does get recognized by amtm. I know it's supposed to be the same code, but still...

You know, this rings a definite bell with me after I first installed the brilliant AMTM, but, as I got it going - probably by repeating exactly what you did - I put it down to my ineptitude, which still remains a possible explanation.

 

[thelonelycoder]

@M@rco and @martinr as mentioned in an earlier post here, I regret having the option to install Entware in amtm.
Installing Entware through amtm calls the script entware-setup.sh in /user/sbin/ on the router.
This script unceremoniously removes and writes a new post-mount file, deleting the one that amtm created when creating a swap file.
Hence it no longer can find the swap file as the entry it looks for in post-mount is gone.
If you still want to do it through amtm, do:
1. Install Entware
2. Create swap file
3. Install AB, Skynet, Dnscrypt installer

Scripts in position 3 will keep the existing post-mount and append to it instead of removing and writing a new file as the Entware installer does.

 

[M@rco]

as mentioned in an earlier post here

Oh #@^&!, now I recall you already explained why it didn't work. Sorry for bothering you, I simply forgot (I forget a lot) and should have taken the trouble to read a few posts back.

*Walks to a corner*

 

[DonnyJohnny]

@M@rco and @martinr as mentioned in an earlier post here, I regret having the option to install Entware in amtm.
Installing Entware through amtm calls the script entware-setup.sh in /user/sbin/ on the router.
This script unceremoniously removes and writes a new post-mount file, deleting the one that amtm created when creating a swap file.
Hence it no longer can find the swap file as the entry it looks for in post-mount is gone.
If you still want to do it through amtm, do:
1. Install Entware
2. Create swap file
3. Install AB, Skynet, Dnscrypt installer

Scripts in position 3 will keep the existing post-mount and append to it instead of removing and writing a new file as the Entware installer does.

So u saying we should install entware manually first then install amtm and Skynet?

 

[martinr]

Oh #@^&!, now I recall you already explained why it didn't work. Sorry for bothering you, I simply forgot (I forget a lot) and should have taken the trouble to read a few posts back.

*Walks to a corner*

Told you it was my ineptitude!

 

[thelonelycoder]

So u saying we should install entware manually first then install amtm and Skynet?

Yes and no. Depends what else you install.
If you plan to install AB-Solution then let it do it by installing pixelserv which installs Entware.

 

[thelonelycoder]

amtm version 1.1 is now available
Use u to update.

What's new in v1.1
- Disk check script (at boot) added. This is a slightly modified version of this script by @latenitetech.
- Disk check log viewer
- POSIX compliance changes

Users that have the original disk check script installed from the GitHub repository must remove the file /jffs/scripts/pre-mount first before installing it through amtm. It works exactly the same, I have only modified it to be compatible with amtm.
amtm includes a disk check log viewer that is shown after the scripts first run (option dcl).

 

[Klaus]

Hello,

I don't think the disc check script works, see below. I get the same output for my WD MyBook 4TB (EXT4).

Feb 14 01:00:31 custom_script: Running /jffs/scripts/pre-mount (args: /dev/sda1)
Feb 14 01:00:31 amtm: Disk check: Unknown filesystem type  on /dev/sda1 - skipping check.
Feb 14 01:00:31 kernel: EXT2-fs (sda1): warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
...
Feb 14 01:00:39 custom_script: Running /jffs/scripts/pre-mount (args: /dev/sdb1)
Feb 14 01:00:39 amtm: Disk check: Unknown filesystem type  on /dev/sdb1 - skipping check.

 

[Butterfly Bones]

Disk check works here. Both USB flash drives with EXT2, one USB 2.0 (ASUS - backup and restore) and one USB 3.0 (SNB - ABS / Skynet / Entware / Pixelserv-tls)

 What do you want to do?  dcl

 ---------------------------------------------------
 /jffs/amtm-disk-check.log has this content:

 START FILE, --- lines are not part of file
 ---------------------------------------------------
 
 Starting 'e2fsck -p install' at Mon Mar  5 12:16:16 PST 2018
 SNB was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.
 SNB: 579/940240 files (15.2% non-contiguous), 617757/3753650 blocks
 
 Starting 'e2fsck -p install' at Mon Mar  5 12:16:29 PST 2018
 ASUS was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.
 ASUS: 443/956592 files (5.0% non-contiguous), 74922/3824128 blocks
 ---------------------------------------------------
 END FILE

 Press [Enter] to return to menu

 

[Klaus]

The script doesn't generate /jffs/amtm-disk-check.log for me.

Tried rebooting again, same result...

 

[Adamm]

Similar issues here;

Feb 14 10:00:39 custom_script: Running /jffs/scripts/pre-mount (args: /dev/sda1)
Feb 14 10:00:39 amtm: Disk check: Unknown filesystem type  on /dev/sda1 - skipping check.
Feb 14 10:00:39 kernel: EXT4-fs (sda1): warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
Feb 14 10:00:39 kernel: EXT4-fs (sda1): recovery complete
Feb 14 10:00:39 hotplug: USB ext4 fs at /dev/sda1 mounted on /tmp/mnt/Elements

 

[thelonelycoder]

Hello,

I don't think the disc check script works, see below. I get the same output for my WD MyBook 4TB (EXT4).

Feb 14 01:00:31 custom_script: Running /jffs/scripts/pre-mount (args: /dev/sda1)
Feb 14 01:00:31 amtm: Disk check: Unknown filesystem type  on /dev/sda1 - skipping check.
Feb 14 01:00:31 kernel: EXT2-fs (sda1): warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
...
Feb 14 01:00:39 custom_script: Running /jffs/scripts/pre-mount (args: /dev/sdb1)
Feb 14 01:00:39 amtm: Disk check: Unknown filesystem type  on /dev/sdb1 - skipping check.

It only checks filesystems identified as Linux (ext*), Win95 (FAT) and HPFS/NTFS.
Yours appears to be none of them.

 

[thelonelycoder]

The script doesn't generate /jffs/amtm-disk-check.log for me.

Tried rebooting again, same result...

If there's no filesystem to check, no logfile is created. The syslog tells you why.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Similar issues here;

Feb 14 10:00:39 custom_script: Running /jffs/scripts/pre-mount (args: /dev/sda1)
Feb 14 10:00:39 amtm: Disk check: Unknown filesystem type  on /dev/sda1 - skipping check.
Feb 14 10:00:39 kernel: EXT4-fs (sda1): warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
Feb 14 10:00:39 kernel: EXT4-fs (sda1): recovery complete
Feb 14 10:00:39 hotplug: USB ext4 fs at /dev/sda1 mounted on /tmp/mnt/Elements

Strange, ext4 should work.

 

[Klaus]

It only checks filesystems identified as Linux (ext*), Win95 (FAT) and HPFS/NTFS.
Yours appears to be none of them.

I'm using EXT2 for flash drive and EXT4 for MyBook 4TB.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Similar issues here;

Feb 14 10:00:39 custom_script: Running /jffs/scripts/pre-mount (args: /dev/sda1)
Feb 14 10:00:39 amtm: Disk check: Unknown filesystem type  on /dev/sda1 - skipping check.
Feb 14 10:00:39 kernel: EXT4-fs (sda1): warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
Feb 14 10:00:39 kernel: EXT4-fs (sda1): recovery complete
Feb 14 10:00:39 hotplug: USB ext4 fs at /dev/sda1 mounted on /tmp/mnt/Elements

I have this, what router are you running yours on? Note the fs identifier;

Mar  5 19:33:52 custom_script: Running /jffs/scripts/pre-mount (args: /dev/sda2)
Mar  5 19:33:52 disk_monitor: Finish
Mar  5 19:33:52 amtm: Running disk check 'e2fsck -p' on /dev/sda2
Mar  5 19:33:52 disk_monitor: be idle
Mar  5 19:33:53 amtm: Disk check done on /dev/sda2
Mar  5 19:33:53 hotplug: USB ext4 fs at /dev/sda2 mounted on /tmp/mnt/entware
Mar  5 19:33:53 kernel: EXT4-fs (sda2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: user_xattr

 

[thelonelycoder]

I'm using EXT2 for flash drive and EXT4 for MyBook 4TB.

Did it run on one of them and which?

 

[Adamm]

I have this, what router are you running yours on? Note the fs identifier;

This was on my AC86U with a 2TB ext4 HDD.

 

[Klaus]

Did it run on one of them and which?

As seen in the log I posted above it failed on both.