USB support for Windows filesystem exFAT, FAT, NTFS
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I have files that I would like to access through the device's USB port and the files have been extracted into a USB flash drive (as volume 4, designated d:) formatted with exFAT (or FAT or NTFS) partition being one of the 3 most commonly available filesystem types on Windows pc.
DISKPART> list volume
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 C OS NTFS Partition 458 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 1 RESTORE NTFS Partition 17 GB Healthy
Volume 2 SYSTEM FAT32 Partition 260 MB Healthy System
Volume 3 RECOVERY NTFS Partition 950 MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 4 D exFAT Removable 2000 MB Healthy
C:\>dir d:
Volume in drive D has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 240D-1A8E
Directory of d:\
13/06/2023 02:59 AM 1,740 md5.txt
13/06/2023 02:59 AM 5,710 contents.xml
30/07/2024 09:36 AM <DIR> update
12/07/2023 06:40 PM 915,410 Quectel_RG500Q-EA-AA_软件版本变更说明_V1301_01.200.01.200.pdf
12/07/2023 06:40 PM 852,693 Quectel_RG500Q-EA-AA_Firmware_Release_Notes_V1301_01.200.01.200.pdf
4 File(s) 1,775,553 bytes
1 Dir(s) 1,891,336,192 bytes free
Before inserting USB drive...
root@HikariWrt:/# ls -l /dev/sd*
ls: /dev/sd*: No such file or directory
After inserting USB drive...
root@HikariWrt:/# ls -l /dev/sd*
brw------- 1 root root 8, 0 Jul 30 09:42 /dev/sda
root@HikariWrt:/# block info | grep "/dev/sd"
/dev/sda: UUID="240D-1A8E" TYPE="exfat"
root@HikariWrt:/# lsusb -t
/: Bus 001.Port 001: Dev 001, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci-hcd/1p, 480M
/: Bus 002.Port 001: Dev 001, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci-hcd/1p, 5000M
/: Bus 003.Port 001: Dev 001, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci-hcd/1p, 480M
/: Bus 004.Port 001: Dev 001, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci-hcd/1p, 5000M
|__ Port 001: Dev 002, If 0, Class=[unknown], Driver=option, 5000M
|__ Port 001: Dev 002, If 1, Class=[unknown], Driver=option, 5000M
|__ Port 001: Dev 002, If 2, Class=[unknown], Driver=option, 5000M
|__ Port 001: Dev 002, If 3, Class=[unknown], Driver=option, 5000M
|__ Port 001: Dev 002, If 4, Class=[unknown], Driver=qmi_wwan_q, 5000M
It detected the usb drive /dev/sda with exfat filesystem but it did not detect the first and only partition /dev/sda1 with the extracted files in it. From further research, it lacks these packages kmod-fs-exfat, kmod-fs-vfat, kmod-fs-ntfs3 to support the 3 most common filesystems on Windows. When these packages were tried to be installed, it complained about the incompatible version as below:-
root@HikariWrt:/# uname -r
6.6.37
Your firmware version of 6.6.37 versus new available version: 6.6.43 dated 30-Jul-2024 and going forward only newer snapshot versions will be available. Could you please advise how do I resolve the versions mismatch issue (or how to download version 6.6.37) and also going forward if more software are needed?
In @https://github.com/xhikarishii/openwrt-ipq, you have mentioned:
To build your own firmware you need a GNU/Linux, BSD or macOS system (case sensitive filesystem required). Cygwin is unsupported because of the lack of a case sensitive file system.
However I don't have neither of the systems required above to be able to compile anything.
I am just following this up to see if you can instead provide the 3 required packages namely, kmod-fs-exfat, kmod-fs-vfat, kmod-fs-ntfs3 .ipk files (if it works this way) so one can manually install them directly on their device?
Closing this, basic USB Drive and filesystem will be included on the next release :)