Mounting USB Storage

The Netgear WNDR3700 offers one USB port. These instructions show how to use configure and use USB storage device, e.g. flash drive.

Packages

The following packages are needed:

• kmod-usb-storage - Kernel support for USB
• kmod-fs-ext4 - Kernel support for ext2, ext3 & ext4
• block-mount - Scripts used to mount and check block devices (filesystems and swap)
• fdisk - Disk partitioning and drive listing

Mount Drive

1. Create a mounting point

mkdir /mnt/storage/

1. List available storage and locate device number

fdisk -ls

1. Mount /dec/sda1 to /mnt/storage

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/storage/

Permanently Mounting the Device

To permanently mount a drive, you need to create an fstab entry in the system configuration. The following configuration mounts a USB drive with the following details:

• Device name: /dev/sda1
• File System: ext4
• Mount Point: /mnt/storage
• Mount Options: rw, sync, noatime

Optionally, you may remove the existing configuration:

uci delete fstab.@mount[0]

UCI configuration:

#Create UCI entries
uci add fstab mount
uci set fstab.@mount[-1].device=/dev/sda1
uci set fstab.@mount[-1].fstype=ext4
uci set fstab.@mount[-1].options=rw,sync,noatime
uci set fstab.@mount[-1].target=/mnt/storage
uci set fstab.@mount[-1].enabled=1

#Commit configuration
uci commit

#Restart fstab to load the new configuration
/etc/init.d/fstab restart