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- | **USB Printer Support**: Checking this loads the driver for USB printing support. (Default: ). | + | |
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**USB Storage Support: | **USB Storage Support: | ||
- | * File Systems Support: Checking any option loads drivers/ | + | * File Systems Support: Checking any option loads drivers/ |
- | * Ext2 / Ext3 - Enabling this loads support for accessing media with Ext2 and Ext3 filesystems. | + | * Ext2 / Ext3 - Enabling this loads support for accessing media with Ext2 and Ext3 filesystems. |
- | * NTFS Support | + | * NTFS - Enabling this loads support for media formatted with Microsoft' |
- | * FAT - Checking this enables | + | * FAT - Checking this enables |
- | * Automount | + | * Automount - This makes FreshTomato automatically mount partitions detected when a USB drive is inserted \\ or during bootup to mount points in subdirectories |
- | * Run after mounting: Here, enter a script | + | * Run after mounting |
- | * Run before unmounting: Here, enter a script | + | * Run before unmounting |
- | **Hotplug script: | + | **Hotplug script: |
- | **HDD Spindown: | + | **HDD Spindown: |
- | **3G/ | + | **3G/ |
===== Attached Devices ===== | ===== Attached Devices ===== | ||
- | The Attached Devices section | + | The Attached Devices section |
- | If a drive is not mounted, clicking on the [Mount] option beside it will mount the drive, to a mountpoint as described earlier. | + | The table has columns describing |
- | If a drive is mounted, clicking | + | \\ [[https:// |
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+ | If a drive is not mounted, clicking the [Mount] option beside it mounts the drive to a mount point. | ||
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+ | If a drive is mounted, clicking the [Unmount] button will unmount the drive, | ||
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===== USB Support Notes ===== | ===== USB Support Notes ===== | ||
- | Changing | + | Some USB storage settings require |
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+ | Therefore, before changing any USB filesystem settings, you should first reconfigure syslog to be stored (temporarily) in RAM. Only then should you adjust filesystem settings or unmount the drive. Afterwards, you can configure syslog to again be permanently stored on USB storage, where it shouldn' | ||
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+ | **USB filesystem corruption is a very common cause of system instability.** You could experience a VPN connectivity issue, WiFi instability or any other seemingly " | ||
- | For this reason, it is recommended that if you want to change any USB filesystem settings, you first reconfigure syslog to be stored in RAM. Only then should you adjust filesystem settings and/or unmount the drive. After that, you can safely configure syslog to be safely stored on USB storage once again, where it should not be interrupted. | + | \\ |
- | **USB filesystem corruption is one of the most common causes of system instability.** Keep this in mind when troubleshooting router issues. You could experience a VPN connectivity issue, WiFi instability or any other sort of random problem which might be directly or indirectly caused by USB filesystem issues. Make sure to add USB filesystem checks to your troubleshooting checklist. | + | \\ |