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Common routers contain two types of permanent storage: | Common routers contain two types of permanent storage: | ||
- | **Flash | + | **Flash** - is the storage area where the FreshTomato firmware image is uploaded, stored and executed. At boot time, the image is loaded into a squash filesystem which means it's executed read-only. Flash size is measured in Megabytes (MB). You might find Flash storage occasionally referred to as Flash RAM. However, the FreshTomato team intentionally avoided this term, to reduce the chance of confusion with traditional (dynamic) RAM. |
- | **NVRAM** - Non-volatile RAM is where the configuration | + | **NVRAM** - (Non-volatile RAM) is used for storing |
- | Since modern routers have a relatively large amount of FLASH memory available, FreshTomato can mount the unused storage space and make it available to FreshTomato' | + | Since modern routers have a relatively large amount of Flash memory available, FreshTomato can mount the unused storage space and make it available to FreshTomato' |
- | The figures below represent an example of storage allocation, and don' | + | The figures below represent an example of storage allocation |
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**Enable:** Checking this box enables JFFS, as shown in the image below. (Default: Disabled). | **Enable:** Checking this box enables JFFS, as shown in the image below. (Default: Disabled). | ||
- | **Execute when mounted:** In this field, you can enter the name of a script or similar to run immeidately | + | **Execute when mounted:** In this field, you can enter the name of a script or similar to run immediately |
- | **Total / Free Size: **This displays the storage size available/the storage amount in use. This cannot be changed. | + | **Total / Free Size: **This displays the storage size available |
- | **Format / Erase:** The very first time you enable JFFS, you must format the partition with the JFFS2 filesystem. Once formatting is complete, the "(not mounted)" | + | **Format / Erase:** The very first time you enable JFFS, you must format the partition with the JFFS2 filesystem. Once formatting is complete, the "(not mounted)" |
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- | NOTE: As a safety precaution, FreshTomato will prevent you from doing firmware upgrades if a JFFS partition is mounted/in use. If you disable JFFS and upgrade the FreshTomato firmware, you' | + | NOTE: As a safety precaution, FreshTomato will prevent you from performing |
- | === Technical Notes/ | + | //Technical Notes/ |
- | **IMPORTANT: | + | **IMPORTANT: |