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You hit the point! I used GPARTED to make the ext4 partition very small because it will only be used by Entware. Then i created a big NTFS primary partition, adapted the rsync config and now i can use it for my rsync backups of the diskstation. This is perfect because i can just plug the...

The spinning drive on the Asus is the backup drive for NAS, so an SSD is no solution. Entware on my spinning drive makes no problems. (and even a swapfile is not needed for my rsync) As underdos said, using a small EXT4 partition for entware and a large NTFS partition (to read the data if...

I set this thread to solved because the main question is answered and ask my second question in another post.

Hi! I have read in the entware Readme that an Ext2/3/4 drive must be used Entware · RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng Wiki · GitHub "You will need to plug a USB disk that's formatted in a native Linux filesystem (ext2, ext3 or ext4)." Can even a NTFS drive be used? It would be more convenient to use...

And you even use entware installed on the external usb NTFS drive? I thought this is not possible? Using an NTFS drive would be more comfortable bit i did not do it because i thought entware can only be installed on unix file systems.

Hi! I am new to Asuswrt-Merlin and the main reason for me was to use rsync. I installed it on my new AX58U to backup a part of my Synology NAS to a router attached harddisk with rsync and its working fine. I use a GPT harddisk with one big partition (2,7 gigs) formatted with Ext4 and it works...