[OpenWrt-Devel] Reducing the root file system in openwrt

Ronaldo Afonso ronaldo at ronaldoafonso.com.br
Wed Mar 7 06:37:21 EST 2018


  Hi Arjav,

  Which kind of firmware are you using? An OpenWrt prebuilt (from
https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/) or a firmware build by yourself?

  Well, in or case, I suggest you build your firmware ... using "make
menuconfig" is the first thing to try for removing unnecessary binaries.



2018-03-07 8:02 GMT-03:00 Arjav Parikh <parikharjav24 at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I want to reduce the root file system size for my project. Till now
> after removing the unnecessary kernel modules, libraries and using
> strip binary the file system size has been reduced to 8.3 MB. Bu there
> are still some files which are not required and I am unaware of how to
> prvent these files from being included in my file system using
> openwrt.
>
> For Ex: there are multiple binaries in /lib/firmware which are not
> required. This folder itself contains size of 4.4 MB, apart from these
> there are many libraries in /lib as well as /usr/lib which are not
> required.
>
> Can anyone please guide of how to remove firmware binaries and
> libraries in openwrt.
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards,
> Arjav Parikh
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