wAP - flash memory issue?

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
1

Good day.

model: RouterBOARD wAP 2nD r2
firmware-type: qca9531L
factory-firmware: 3.27
current-firmware: 3.33
upgrade-firmware: 3.33

Flash contains:

NAME TYPE SIZE CREATION-TIME

0 flash disk jan/01/1970 03:00:00
1 flash/skins directory jan/01/1970 03:00:01
No user files.

Reported size- System\Resources:
Total HDD Size -16.0 MiB
Free HDD Space - 3568 KiB
RouterOS 6.35.2 (the same - 6.34.5, 6.30)

But what is really worse - created backups, generated supout.rif or any other file uploaded with winbox\ftp\etc dissapear after reboot\shutting down.

2

Ypu have to put your files in the flash directory

3

Thanks, it works.
But why backup are creating in "root", not in "flash"? Odd.
Actually "flash" is not a directory, it behaves like some kind of mount point created in RAM-disk:

NAME TYPE

0 flash disk
1 flash/skins directory

Still - why only approx. 20% reported as free space?

4

Because that’s what you have. In the past, even cheap devices used to have 64-128MB of disk space. Now MikroTik believes that “16MB must be enough for everyone”. Substract the space needed by system (~11MB for default combined package) and it makes your 3.5MB.