Quick question re partitioning and formatting storage
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Brand new Omega user here. But not new to Linux.
I plugged a 32GB USB drive into the expansion dock and it shows up as /dev/sda. So far so good.
Tried to partition it using fdisk /dev/sda but that only displays information. Typically that would return a partitioning menu.
Also mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 doesn't work. Command not found.
OpenWRT Wiki suggest these commands should work. https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/storage
But obviously there is something I don't know or understand in Omega land.
I am able to mount and access the default FAT partition on the USB just fine.
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Hi @David-Klinkman... I think you can find what you need here: https://wiki.onion.io/Tutorials/Using-USB-Storage
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So there's no way to partition or format USB storage? I can only mount and dismount the storage?
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@David-Klinkman Ah, i see what you are trying to do. We just don't have
fdiskandmkfsinstalled to conserve disk space. However, if you have setup a cross-compile environment for the Omega, you can add these commands into the firmware. It should be located under the build menu forbusybox.Let me know if you have the cross-compile environment set up and we can walk you through how to compile
fdiskandmkfs.
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Ok now I understand the minimalist OS for Omega due to limited storage. I don't have a cross -compile environment but I do have other Linux instances where I can prepare a storage device if I want. More than anything I was just curious why fdisk would display partitions but not modify or create them. Now I know.
Thanks for your response!!!
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got actually the cross compile environment. since i'll use one of my onion's as a CUPS printer server and the packages don't have the "cups" installed from beginning, i need to compile the whole thing.
and also as the omega just has a small amount of storage, i need it to run it from a USB-stick. As there are no utils to mount a stick at boot, i need to make a custom image, or am i wrong?
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@Jan-Freund You should be able to insert a script snippet in your profile script to automatically mount a USD drive (as well as to run any command you need to start the CUPS service).
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compiled my own package and kill'd my onion
the instruction (in corss-compile tutorial @ Step 7) is saying something of downloading a image?
with some trying i managed to rescue it by loading it on a USB and copy it to the /tmp folder and re "sysupdate" it to the actual omega build.so @Boken-Lin i can run the unpacked CUPS packages from the USB drive? or do i still need to selfcompile the build to get the openwrt packages to run the server plus work with the printer?
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@Jan-Freund Yes, you should be able to run any binary directly from the USB drive.