TomCat Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 BLUF: Added a 16GB Cruzer with 3 partitions. 1 for logging/extending my pineapple, 1 for storage of Mods, 1 for swap. Bought a 16GB Cruzer at the local wally world the other day and partitioned it so I could have a big partition to work with the pineapple, a partition to store mods, scripts, and other stuff, and a decent sized swap partition. I used Darren's tutorials as a basis. The big partition is 12 Gig, I made the second partition 2 Gig and I think the swap part is 1 Gig. I know there's a little extra unused space on it but it'll serve its purpose. I remember playing with Sun Sparc 10s that had 4GB SCSI drives; 12 Gigs is a LOT of space. Here's the USB config from my pineapple: config global automount option from_fstab 1 option anon_mount 1 config global autoswap option from_fstab 1 option anon_swap 0 config mount option target /usb option device /dev/sda1 option fstype ext4 option options rw,sync option enabled 1 option enabled_fsck 0 config mount option target /usb2 option device /dev/sda2 option fstype ext4 option options rw,sync option enabled 1 option enabled_fsck 0 config swap option device /dev/sda3 option enabled 1 I don't know how much power draw this Cruzer pulls, but I don't intend on running the pinapple POE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineDominator Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 BLUF: Added a 16GB Cruzer with 3 partitions. 1 for logging/extending my pineapple, 1 for storage of Mods, 1 for swap. Bought a 16GB Cruzer at the local wally world the other day and partitioned it so I could have a big partition to work with the pineapple, a partition to store mods, scripts, and other stuff, and a decent sized swap partition. I used Darren's tutorials as a basis. The big partition is 12 Gig, I made the second partition 2 Gig and I think the swap part is 1 Gig. I know there's a little extra unused space on it but it'll serve its purpose. I remember playing with Sun Sparc 10s that had 4GB SCSI drives; 12 Gigs is a LOT of space. Here's the USB config from my pineapple: config global automount option from_fstab 1 option anon_mount 1 config global autoswap option from_fstab 1 option anon_swap 0 config mount option target /usb option device /dev/sda1 option fstype ext4 option options rw,sync option enabled 1 option enabled_fsck 0 config mount option target /usb2 option device /dev/sda2 option fstype ext4 option options rw,sync option enabled 1 option enabled_fsck 0 config swap option device /dev/sda3 option enabled 1 I don't know how much power draw this Cruzer pulls, but I don't intend on running the pinapple POE. sorry I noticed that option anon_swap 0 is set to 0? is swap working? cool, I never thought of making a third partition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomCat Posted April 19, 2012 Author Share Posted April 19, 2012 sorry I noticed that option anon_swap 0 is set to 0? is swap working? cool, I never thought of making a third partition. No worries. It appears to me that it is, check out this copy-paste from my resources page: Up Time 00:02:11 up 2 min, load average: 0.72, 0.35, 0.14 Free Memory total used free shared buffers Mem: 29532 24852 4680 0 3216 -/+ buffers: 21636 7896 Swap: 931764 0 931764 echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches Experimental Disk Usage Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 1.1M 256.0K 832.0K 24% / /dev/root 5.0M 5.0M 0 100% /rom tmpfs 14.4M 88.0K 14.3M 1% /tmp tmpfs 512.0K 0 512.0K 0% /dev /dev/mtdblock3 1.1M 256.0K 832.0K 24% /overlay overlayfs:/overlay 1.1M 256.0K 832.0K 24% / /dev/sda1 11.8G 158.5M 11.1G 1% /usb /dev/sda2 2.0G 67.0M 1.8G 3% /usb2 /dev/mtdblock7 5.0M 5.0M 0 100% /mnt/mtdblock7 USB Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0781:5530 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer I'll have to look up what "option anon_swap 0" does, but I think when set to true that it makes all usage of the swap partition anonymous on a multi-user system machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomCat Posted April 19, 2012 Author Share Posted April 19, 2012 Oh, and I forgot to add, the third partition makes for a great place to store stuff so it isn't floating around on the netbook or on the Droid that I use to log onto the pineapple. Nice to have one place to store everything... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhook Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 (edited) How do you like that drive? I ordered a 16GB DataTraveler Micro the other day. Buy.com has them on sale for under $12! http://www.buy.com/pr/product.aspx?sku=227277954 Edited April 19, 2012 by redhook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomCat Posted April 19, 2012 Author Share Posted April 19, 2012 How do you like that drive? I ordered a 16GB DataTraveler Micro the other day. Buy.com has them on sale for under $12! http://www.buy.com/pr/product.aspx?sku=227277954 I think I paid 22 bucks for it, but I didn't have to pay for s&h and I didn't have to wait till I get home to use it. Was on a business trip and then had a death in the family... Haven't had a lot of time to play with the pineapple yet but have flashed it to 1.1.1, changed the default SSID, root password and hostname... Also rooted around the file system to see where things are stored and what makes it tick... So far I like the Cruser, it's what I would call full size and a bit awkward but it works and that's what counts. :) There are a ton of options on storage. Did you get your drive yet, or are you still waiting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomCat Posted April 19, 2012 Author Share Posted April 19, 2012 sorry I noticed that option anon_swap 0 is set to 0? is swap working? As a follow-up, From the OpenWRT Wiki: Autoswap There is one global section named autoswap which defines the hotplug auto swap behaviour. This example is included by default: config 'global' 'autoswap' option 'from_fstab' '1' option 'anon_swap' '0' The autoswap section contains these settings: Name Type Required Default Description from_fstab boolean no 1 Whether to use swap sections when doing hotplug swap on anon_swap boolean no 0 When using hotplug swapon, whether to automatically swapon devices not defined in a swap section Source: http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/fstab So I was wrong on my earlier thought, but since I have a swap defined, it works. If I changed the anon_swap to 1 and did NOT define the swap at sda3, then it would create the swap automagically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineDominator Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 As a follow-up, From the OpenWRT Wiki: Autoswap There is one global section named autoswap which defines the hotplug auto swap behaviour. This example is included by default: config 'global' 'autoswap' option 'from_fstab' '1' option 'anon_swap' '0' The autoswap section contains these settings: Name Type Required Default Description from_fstab boolean no 1 Whether to use swap sections when doing hotplug swap on anon_swap boolean no 0 When using hotplug swapon, whether to automatically swapon devices not defined in a swap section Source: http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/fstab So I was wrong on my earlier thought, but since I have a swap defined, it works. If I changed the anon_swap to 1 and did NOT define the swap at sda3, then it would create the swap automagically. cool find. so we can skip the mkswap command and just reboot after changing fstab. ps I am using the sandisk cruzer fit 16gig, 2gig's for swap the rest for storage and stuff;-) I feel the usb drive on the mark 4 is a must and hope that many things can be offloaded or require it in future firmware. I would rather wear out a usb drive's 4+ gig flash apposed to the 1+ MB left on the pineapple. stuff like logs /www/pineapple/logs/urlsnarf.log write to flash after every change btw one visit to a site could invoke 10's of entries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomCat Posted April 19, 2012 Author Share Posted April 19, 2012 cool find. so we can skip the mkswap command and just reboot after changing fstab. ps I am using the sandisk cruzer fit 16gig, 2gig's for swap the rest for storage and stuff;-) I feel the usb drive on the mark 4 is a must and hope that many things can be offloaded or require it in future firmware. I would rather wear out a usb drive's 4+ gig flash apposed to the 1+ MB left on the pineapple. stuff like logs /www/pineapple/logs/urlsnarf.log write to flash after every change btw one visit to a site could invoke 10's of entries Would really be sweet if it had an available micro SD slot in it. Wally World was carrying a 16GB microSD for 22 bucks today. I'd like to move all logging off of the pineapple and onto the USB... When I get home I'll be tinkering with it. All of my good tools are at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineDominator Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 (edited) Would really be sweet if it had an available micro SD slot in it. Wally World was carrying a 16GB microSD for 22 bucks today. I'd like to move all logging off of the pineapple and onto the USB... When I get home I'll be tinkering with it. All of my good tools are at home. I've already posted on here how to do that ;-) http://forums.hak5.o...ndpost&p=199428 Edited April 19, 2012 by petertfm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhook Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Did you get your drive yet, or are you still waiting? Ordered it the other day and used the cheapest shipping option. Supposed to be getting it Monday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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