subogero linux blog

To cut a long story short, the number of Linux kernels running at home has increased. Again.

This time it’s a TP-Link WR1043ND router managing my new internet connection. And check this: the package came with a copy of the GNU General Public License. We live in a beautiful world!

The first thing I did was to overwrite the factory firmware with OpenWrt. It’s a fantastic thing. At the moment of writing, I’m running the following services on it:

• USB hard disk with some ext3 partitions attached (big)
• My own git-hub
• A home file-server using Samba
• Transmission bit-torrent client
• It even has its own domain name

Git was a bit tricky, as it’s big, so it’s installed into /opt, mounted from the USB HDD.

I have a theory, that the real solution to increasing the capacity of such routers is not extroot, not /opt, but mounting a partition to /usr.

But I have not tried it. Yet.