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I have two 500GB in standard mode using 1.04/63, fun_plug v0.4. I upgraded to 1.04 then bought a second drive, formated, and everything has been fine since. (No additional partitions created.)

Thanks for the replies. I think I've found the problem. I believe it was due to the RAID0 config I was using on the drives previously as I remembered using the web GUI, when creating the RAID0 config, it doesn't allow you to select the full disk space avail. So when I reconfigured it as standard, I'm guessing that the system doesn't recreate the partitions but simply just reformat the drives leaving the four partitions. I've tried to select standard mode a few times there after and the system simply reformats the drives. I then subsequently used fdisk to remove all the partitions manually before rebooting. This time round, the system is forced to create the partitions and it does so using the full capacity of the drives. Just in case anyone else is interested.

Somehow, while moving files between the NAS and my temp storage (a win2003 x64 svr), some files appeared to be missing so I tried to delete the whole folder in the NAS to try again. However, the delete operation fails halfway through saying folder is not empty. When I checked using both windows explorer and telnet, the folder "appears" to be empty! How can I forcibly remove the folder in this case?

Last edited by bfg100k (2008-01-09 07:24:01)

ok.. it looks like its not just because of the RAID0 config setup. I just tried re-selecting standard mode (old config was already on standard mode with my manually configured partitions) and the 500mb sda4 and sdb4 appear again

I'm using 1.04b63.

I think part of the problem is the options flag '-l' appears after the device name in the fdisk command

try the fdisk command like this

# fdisk -l /dev/md0

Disk /dev/md0: 248.0 GB, 248041439232 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 60556992 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

The other part is that RAID devices cannot be partitioned, like ordinary disks can,
so fdisk on /dev/md0 does not make any sense.  To look each disk use:

# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/sda1               1          66      530113+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda2              67       30222   242228070  83 Linux
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/sdb1               1          66      530113+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sdb2              67       30222   242228070  83 Linux

Last edited by mig (2008-01-26 09:25:45)

I own the CH3SNAS from Conceptronic, and I had 2 partitions from the very beginning. The main one is called hd_a2, and the second one is about 500MB called hd_a4. Not a clue what it is for though

I don't seem to have any mystery partitions.

I'm using the 1.04b84 firmware.

With 1.03 I'd had the disks as a RAID 0 array, then I upgraded to 1.04b82, and reformatted to two standard disks. The reformat operation needed to be run 3 times before is seemed to be completed properly (it got stuck at 94% complete the first 2 times).

Then I upgraded to 1.04b84 firmware. I have the with fonz funplug 1.4_test. I can see this information about the two disks in my machine:

# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type ext2 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nodiratime)
/dev/loop0 on /sys/crfs type cramfs (ro)
/dev/sda2 on /mnt/HD_a2 type ext2 (rw)
/dev/sdb2 on /mnt/HD_b2 type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)

# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/sda1               1          66      530113+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda2              67       60801   487853887+ 83 Linux

# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/sdb1               1          66      530113+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sdb2              67       60801   487853887+ 83 Linux