I noticed that compared to every other Mikrotik device I own, the RB4011 ROS package has an obese software size (95MB!) compared to my other ROS installations which only take up 12MB at the most. How is this possible? I don’t think the Alpine CPU needs drivers that are that big, unless it has some secret sauce that balloons up the package as a whole.
You do realize that it’s the exactly the same package for hAP ac2 which only has 16MB of internal flash.
There is no “95MB” downloadable “ROS” package.
“order of magnitude” !! .. stop smoking.
I was wrong, it’s actually 87MB.
Haha I was going to ask which Russian website did you get your download from. 
By the way, there is no firmware just for the RB4011, they classify downloads per CPU chip architecture (ARM in this case).
This software came with the RB4011 out of the box. 
Disk use doesn’t have to be related to package size. There can be other files in the router.
In a terminal windows, run the following command and post the output of it.
/file print
[admin@MikroTikRouter] /file> pr
Columns: NAME, TYPE, SIZE, CREATION-TIME
# NAME TYPE SIZE CREATION-TIME
0 skins directory dec/31/1969 20:00:03
1 pub directory jan/01/1970 20:01:47
2 auto-before-reset.backup backup 21.8KiB jan/01/1970 20:03:45
3 download (5) file 37.2KiB apr/15/2021 22:24:35
4 download (5).rsc script 37.2KiB apr/15/2021 22:25:11
5 autosupout.rif .rif file 428.6KiB apr/16/2021 23:51:20
6 RB4011.rsc script 28.8KiB apr/19/2021 23:00:22
[admin@MikroTikRouter] /file>
You marked it as solved, what did you find out?
File output did not show much.
PS no need to Quote a message above you, use “Post Reply” button below the post.
I found out that it’s not just the system package that takes up space but other files as well. However, I still don’t know what those other files are.
As you can clearly see, there are backups, configuration exports, debug files, a theme/skin folder.
Inodes take up some space too, for a 512MB partition.
But how would you expect @Cablenut9 to know something about filesystems..
You are a real charm.
Ironic, because back when I was running The Dude on a 2GB MicroSD on a hEX S, the total used space was less than whatever space the inodes are taking up here. ROS should let you know what kinds of things are using up the space, not a generic “space used/available”
File a bug report if you consider whatever this is such a big issue
I already submitted one!!!
@Zevba SUP-84879 _Cablenut is bugging me!