Mounting an SSD drive...can't find it via SSH?

[pbc]

Decided to give the NVRAM save/restore utility a go as I have too many DHCP reservations and it's a pain to retype them all when I have to reset the router, get a new one, etc.

Struggling at step 1, which is actually locating the USB drive on my router. When I SSH in via WinSCP, go to root, then go to the mnt directory, I only see sda-5. I see sda-5 whether I've plugged a USB drive into my RT-AX86U or not.

I see the drive is on their successfully in the network map page. But shouldn't it show up as sda-1, or am I looking at the wrong directory/place?

 

[Tech9]

Decided to give the NVRAM save/restore utility a go

This one?

NVRAM - [Release] NVRAM Save/Restore Utility

Utility to save/restore NVRAM values and the jffs partition on Asuswrt-Merlin firmware. Installation and usage instructions are available on the NVRAM Save/Restore Utility GitHub page with additional instructions in the project QuickStart.txt file. Requirements A properly formatted USB drive...

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Don't use it, it's an abandoned script. See the last post in the thread by RMerlin:

"This script hasn't been updated in years, and hasn't been compatible with any firmware released over the past few years."

There was a recent related to what you want to do conversation here:

ASUS RT-BE86U

I have an ASUS RT-BE86U with original ASUS software, is it possible to download only the client list along with the MAC that I have made in the LAN with a static IP number assigned? I would like to restart to factory settings and upload only the client list and set the rest again myself. I am...

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