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If you don’t have enough space left to install apps from the market, please Restore RootFS Storage

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If you want to downgrade your firmware to an older version, please Restore RootFS Storage

Introduction

Our gateways and SBCs have a built in flash memory with a limited amount of storage space. Over the years the size of our firmware has increased, by updating important security libraries and introducing new functions to the system.

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For further technical information about this topic, please refer to the bottom of this page or click here.

Manage your RootFS Storage

Restoring RootFS Storage / Revert old RootFS

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When downgrading the firmware, you may get an error message “inappropriate rootfs”. Please follow the steps down below. The value in the Miscellaneous-Settings is set automatically.

For this you will need to reboot your device in Normal-Mode again.

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  • Go to Miscellaneous-Settings and use the following experimental option: restoring_rootfs=1

  • A new tab will appear and it will be possible to restore the old RootFS with the click of a button

  • If successful, the experimental option will automatically disappear. Please follow further instructions.

Freeing RootFS Storage / Make room on the main partition

This procedure is automatically performed when updating to firmware version appfs-21.02 and does not need to be performed again.

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