Comment by lightlyused | Hacker News Reader

Comment by lightlyused | Hacker News Reader

My ac66u-b1 has been acting weird for the past several months. I first thought it was an Ubuntu bug. Wifi wouldn't always reconnect after I'd closed my laptop. Yesterday, however, it seemed to just die randomly. Error was "no space left on device." SSHing in to it and it does show root volume as 100% used. So, whatever Asus was doing has pushed it over the edge space wise and it can no long write the dnsmasq.leases file when enough devices connect.

So, what wifi ap should I buy to replace this POS?

Not offering advice on purchasing an AP, but if you are interested in trying to get more life out of this one:

My guess based on reading the article is that it's mostly logs filling the disk. You can find out for sure with some version of

  du -a | sort -hr | head

Then just start deleting logs at or near the top of the list - I suppose this would get you back running. Sure, constantly writing to logs sounds terrible for performance, but did you even notice when it was working properly? If it's actually Ubuntu running on this router, you could even install (or configure if it's already there) logrotate to probably prevent this from happening again at all.

Then you still have a POS router, but one that might get the job done.

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