mount and share an external hdd on vera

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I tried to find out how to mount an external hdd on vera, but with no luck. It should be nice if it could be shared with samba too…

Anybody succeeded with this?

2

I was able to mount a 1GB USB key for which I’m trying to install applications from.

Here are the command to put in the start-up script.

mount /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mount_point_name

3

Already tried that. What filesystem did you use? My HDD is formatted as ext3. Maybe it should have been vfat?

4

There is support for both ext3 and vfat in our release.
For more information please refer to this page: USB Storage [Old OpenWrt Wiki]

5

I have attempted to install a samba package onto my Vera, but unfortunately there is not enough free space on the device.

How could I achieve one (or more) of the following:

  • Reduce the amount of space taken up by existing installed packages, files, etc

  • Use the external drive that I have attached in order to boost the space available to the OS (can I link the opt dir to my HDD for example?)

  • Uninstall some packages that I don’t use. There is surely some stuff running that I don’t need!

Cheers

6

Did you follow the instructions on the OpenWrt wiki page: http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/OpenWRT
There is a config issue in the Vera firmware that makes it give an error about not having enough space, but the fixes mentioned in the wiki resolve this.

7

Perfect!

Thank you…

8

Sorry could someone kindly break this down for me please.
I have an IP camera that requires a Samba Share to record to, I was hoping to add an external drive to my vera for this purpose as opposed to having my server booted all the time.

I have attached the drive, but need to either enable it or something as i can not figure out what its path is to give to the camera.

Regards

Simon