Writable NTFS
Once you have obtained Basic USB support, you now want to connect a storage (USB stick, USB harddisk, etc) device to your router. Using kmod-fs-ntfs only provides read support. This HowTo will show you how to obtain read/write support for NTFS volumes.
Preparations
Prerequisites
- Obtain Basic USB support on your OpenWrt and
- Connect your storage device to your OpenWrt router, the device and its partitions should immediately be available as Device files under
/dev, for example/dev/sda,/dev/sda1,/dev/sda2, etc.
Required Packages
ntfs-3gfdiskoptional Required to autodetect the filesystem type when using the hotplug script.
Configuration
There is nothing to configure! Note however, you can only mount a partition to an existing directory. You can create on with mkdir, for example mkdir -p /mnt/usb-ntfs.
To manually mount a partition:
ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb-ntfs -o rw,sync
To unmount:
umount /dev/sda1
Hotplug Mounting
By enabling the Busybox mount helper option (self built OpenWrt required)
This forum post might be relevant if you already have built OpenWrt by yourself you have to rebuild the firmware with the Busybox's mount melper option enabled and reflash the new image. If you have not yet built OpenWrt once, Documentation - Building may help.
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As of Backfire r25816 and trunk r25815 this option is already enabled by default. |
With a custom hotplug script
Now that you can get your volume to mount on command, the next step is mounting it when it's plugged in automatically.
To get our drive to mount on plugin, we utilize the hotplug system.
Create the following files as /etc/hotplug.d/block/10-mount.
#!/bin/sh
# Copyright (C) 2011 OpenWrt.org
blkdev=`dirname $DEVPATH`
if [ `basename $blkdev` != "block" ]; then
device=`basename $DEVPATH`
case "$ACTION" in
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mkdir -p /mnt/$device
# vfat & ntfs-3g check
if [ `which fdisk` ]; then
isntfs=`fdisk -l | grep $device | grep NTFS`
isvfat=`fdisk -l | grep $device | grep FAT`
isfuse=`lsmod | grep fuse`
isntfs3g=`which ntfs-3g`
else
isntfs=""
isvfat=""
fi
# mount with ntfs-3g if possible, else with default mount
if [ "$isntfs" -a "$isfuse" -a "$isntfs3g" ]; then
ntfs-3g -o nls=utf8 /dev/$device /mnt/$device
elif [ "$isvfat" ]; then
mount -o iocharset=utf8 /dev/$device /mnt/$device
else
mount /dev/$device /mnt/$device
fi
;;
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umount -l /dev/$device
;;
esac
fi |
(The script above comes from this blog post)
Now, whenever you plug in an NTFS USB disk, it should automatically mount. (Note that this will be a different path than /mnt/usb-ntfs)
doc/howto/writable_ntfs.txt · Last modified: 2012/01/01 07:34 by gpinzone