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Friday, 16 March 2012 00:57

TL-MR3420 Ver1.2 [ USB & Swap support with ExtRoot ]

Travel & Entertainment

Reference, thanks & credits go to the following

TM-UNIFI RELATED

http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/extroot
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=123070#p123070

About TM-UniFi
Replacement Option Summary
My Setup

[Optional] Setup as Standalone Device

MikroTik
TP-Link
ASUS

I setup the device as standalone unit as follows, with main gateway pointing to my TL-WR1043ND [192.168.1.1], which is also running
OpenWRT

DD-WRT for UniFi

ISP & TELCO

SingTel Fibre

OPENWRT RELATED
About OpenWrt
TL-WR1043ND Ver1.8 [UniFi Ready!]
TL-WR941ND Ver3.2 [UniFi Ready!]
TL-MR3420 Ver1.2 [UniFi -Vlan.500]
USB, Swap, ExtRoot
Samba, FTP, Transmission
MiniDLNA
UniFi Setup
Network Printer via USB

TL-WR740N Ver4.2 [UniFi -Vlan.500]

RT-N13U-B1 [UniFi Ready!]
RT-N10+ C1 [UniFi Ready!]
WHR-G300N-V1 [UniFi Ready!]
DIR-615-G1 [UniFi Ready!]
TL-WDR4300-V1.3 [UniFi Ready!]

DD-WRT RELATED
About DD-WRT
Setup Walk Through
TP-Link
Buffalo
ASUS

TOMATO RELATED
About Tomato
Buffalo WHR-HP-G54

Disconnect PC from the device, connect and attach the device to existing LAN switch, open browser and type the device's new IP

GADGETS
BeatBox BlueTooth Mini Speaker
ASUS WL-330N3G
CANSONIC-CDV600

I disabled some of the following services

MeLE A100
In-Car DVR (Dual Camera)
TP-Link Portable Routers
Mobile Phone

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D-Link DNS-320 [NAS]

HDMI Switch
HDMI Splitter
HDMI Extender
Universal Remote Control - Learn &
Store Permanently
OpenBox S9 HD
DreamBox DM500-S
Laptop Universal Charger (90W)

GPS
Garmin
China Made GPS

INFORMATION
SoPhone Vs iPhone4 [HK eZone
20Jan2011]
TP-Link PA-211 HomePlug AV (3rd
Generation) [by HK eZone 20Jan2011]
HomePlug - 9 Products Comparison
(Chinese)

Also named the device

P1 => PUI-1 ?!
P1 Fiber - What a tough journey .....
P1 D-Link DVG-N5412SP-A1
P1 Router Replacement
P1 Fiber - Terminate!

Reboot the device after the above setup

Prepare USB2 External 2.5" HDD

I use Minitool Home Free to create 2 partition as follows on an USB2 external 2.5" SATA HDD

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Partition 1 : about 1GB for Linux Swap

Partition 2 : all remaining size for data on ext3 filesystem
(Note: Refer HERE for more information on HDD partitioning)

Setup USB, Swap and ExtRoot

To install package, go to " System --> Software tab "

Click Update lists

Once the list updated, type " kmod-usb-storage ", click Find package
Click on Available tab, click Install the following package

Continue to finish install the following packages

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Plug-in the USB2 HDD now

Go to " System --> Reboot tab "
Click Perform reboot

After reboot, launch PuTTY, type the following command lines, then reboot the device again

After reboot, launch WinSCP, go to " /etc/config " folder

Locate & edit the file fstab

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Change to the following, take note the partition numbering:

/dev/sda1 = Partition 1 (LinuxSwap)
/dev/sda2 = Partition 2 (ext3 for data)

Back to LuCI, reboot the device

After re-boot, go to the following section, notice the free space now, YEAH !

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Go to check the Mount Points, the ext3 is mounted correctly to /overlay, however in my case, the swap seem not working, not sure why
....
So I click Edit it

Enable the swap as follows

Go to Startup, ensure the fstab is Enabled

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Reboot the device, again ....

Wah-la, all mounted nicely !

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Launch PuTTY to re-confirm again

To spin down the HDD after some time of idling

Install the luci-app-hd-idle

Noticed there is a new tab under Services, setup the HDD idling accordingly.

Finally, USB HDD + SWAP + ExtRoot all done

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