can't change into /opt

[cuekay]

Hello. I currently have an ext4 and ntfs partition on a usb 3.0 flash drive plugged into my Asus TM-AC1900 and I had noticed that the /opt directory is, while there, is not accessible. I had tried to remedy this by reinstalling entware using entware-setup.sh but it occurred again. I do notice a number of folders named "entware-old_2016-04-22_00-38" or similarly and am wondering if there's something I need to do after running the setup script, because I haven't and assumed that the script sets everything up with regards to entware being available per boot. I can still run opkg however. Thank you.

 

[jrmwvu04]

When you drop to the root directory "/" and issue "ls -l", do you see something that looks like this?

lrwxrwxrwx    1 admin    root             7 Apr  9 14:02 opt -> tmp/opt

When Entware is installed, it will create /opt which actually links to /tmp/opt which actually links to /tmp/mnt/XXX/entware where XXX is your USB. As far as I know, that doesn't exist until you've done something to create it. Even so, I've seen the Entware script see /opt already exist and continue on otherwise alright.

 

[cuekay]

thanks for the response. For reason, I booted up, I regained access to /opt . I'm going to keep an eye on it though as I've lost access a number of times but never quite figured out the circumstances under which this has happened. Thank you.