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 Common routers contain two types of permanent storage:
-**Flash** - is the storage area where the FreshTomato firmware image is uploaded, stored and executed. At boot time, the image is loaded into a squash filesystem which is a read-only filesystem. Flash size is measured in Megabytes (MB). You might find Flash storage occasionally referred to as Flash RAM. However, the FreshTomato team intentionally avoided this term, to reduce the chance of confusion with traditional (dynamic) RAM.
+**Flash** - is the storage area where the FreshTomato firmware image is uploaded, stored and executed. At boot time, the image is loaded into a read-only squash filesystem. Flash size is measured in Megabytes (MB). You might find Flash storage occasionally referred to as Flash RAM. However, the FreshTomato team intentionally avoided this term, to reduce the chance of confusion with traditional (dynamic) RAM.
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-**NVRAM** - (Non-volatile RAM) is used for storing the hardware's configuration. While loading the firmware from the squash filesystem, parameter variables are fetched from the NVRAM. NVRAM size is relatively small and is measured in Kilobytes (KB).
+**NVRAM** - (Non-volatile RAM) is used to store the hardware's configuration. While loading the firmware from the squash filesystem, parameter variables are fetched from the NVRAM. NVRAM size is relatively small and is measured in Kilobytes (KB).
 Since modern routers have a relatively large amount of Flash memory available, FreshTomato can mount the unused storage space and make it available to FreshTomato for normal file storage. This function is called JFFS, short for the //Journalling Flash File System// type used for the storage. Currently, JFFS2 (version 2) is used.
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-**Execute when mounted:**  In this field, enter the name of a script or command to run immediately after the JFFS partition becomes available to FreshTomato. (Default: blank).
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+**Execute when mounted:**  the name of a script or command to run immediately after the JFFS partition becomes available to FreshTomato. (Default: blank).
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-**Total / Free Size:**  This displays the storage size available to be used. This is fixed.
+**Total / Free Size:**  displays the storage size available to be used. This is fixed.
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 UPGRADE Warning:  As a safety precaution, FreshTomato prevents you from upgrading firmware if a JFFS partition is mounted/in use. This is because if you were to disable JFFS and upgrade firmware, you might lose the data on the /jffs partition. Therefore, you should do a backup and restore to preserve the data there before upgrading. To learn more about backup and restore of JFFS partition data, see the XXXX page.
-FREQENT Writes Warning:** **Flash storage is not designed for frequent write operations. Because of this, you should avoid performing frequent write operations to it. For example, avoid storing the logs in JFFS, as this will shorten the life of your router. However, flash memory's limitation is in the number of //write// operations, not the number of //read// operations. Therefore, an Entware installation would be fine. Nevertheless, JFFS should be used only if no other permanent storage, like USB or a CIFS share is available.
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+FREQUENT Writes Warning:** **Flash storage isn't designed for frequent write operations. Therefore, avoid performing frequent write operations to it. For example, avoid storing the logs in JFFS, as this will shorten the life of your router.
+However, flash memory's limitation is in the number of //write// operations, not the number of //read// operations. Therefore, an Entware installation would be fine. Nevertheless, JFFS should be used only if no other permanent storage, (like USB or a CIFS) share is available.

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