How to shut down openwrt without corrupting file systems?

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I have a small box running OpenWRT (it's actually a Wifi Pineapple). It has an internal file system on the microsd. If I plug in a USB drive with a formatted ext3 file system, then the drive is automatically mounted.

How do I safely turn it off? Does OpenWRT automatically flush all buffers and sync its filesystems so you can turn it off at any time? Or is something else going on?

score 19 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 07 '16 at 20:37

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OpenWrt doesn't have a shutdown -h/-r command.

On Openwrt, one uses reboot, halt or poweroff commands instead.

Move to Ext4, should be save with shutdown.

edited Jul 07 '16 at 20:37

Thomas Weller

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answered May 12 '14 at 00:02

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ext4 is not some magic genie. If ext4 is not cleanly unmounted it WILL be flagged dirty. – h0tw1r3 Aug 18 '14 at 03:04

How to shut down openwrt without corrupting file systems?

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