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Hi, i'm new to this forum.
It seems the right place where i can found answers concerning my dns323.
I got this NAS from a friend who don't used it, without any drive inside.
I own a seagate barracuda 1,5TB previously used in a usb box, and i want to use it for DNS323 without loosing data.
The problem is that this drive contain more or less 1,2TB of data and i can backup just 500GB on another external drive.
The DNS323 ask me to reformat it when powered on, but i can't loose my old files.
I have a linux box (debian squeeze) with gparted where i can change partitions without loosing data, so i'm wondering if is possible to arrange things in order to make the drive "compatible" with the nas.
In other words i don't want to use the DNS323 internal format function while i can change the partitions structure with the drive connected to my debian box.
Is there a way to do this? which is the partition schema used by the dns323?
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Well I have no idea if you can get away with it, but here are some of the details you might need.
First off the file system is ext2.
Here is a df of mine:
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 9911 8059 1340 86% /
/dev/root 9911 8059 1340 86% /
/dev/loop0 5760 5760 0 100% /sys/crfs
/dev/sda2 152807104 18136284 134670820 12% /mnt/HD_a2
/dev/sdb2 960404324 69412976 842205560 8% /mnt/HD_b2
/dev/sda4 497861 28824 469037 6% /mnt/HD_a4
/dev/sdb4 497861 18 497843 0% /mnt/HD_b4
/dev/sdc1 996116 175096 770420 19% /mnt/USB1
/dev/sdd1 76920416 18269444 54743564 25% /mnt/USB2
/dev/sdc1 996116 175096 770420 19% /opt
The HD_a* are the first drive, and HD_b* is the second.
Here is the fdisk list of the two hard drives:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 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 131 19457 155244127+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 67 130 514080 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 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 131 121601 975715807+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 67 130 514080 83 Linux
Also there is a .systemfile directory created on each of the drives that has samba and other information, that may or may not be created automatically. And as such there might be something in there that if it doesn't exist the DNS-323 might not consider it a drive setup the way it likes:
root@DLink-NAS:/usr/bin# ls -l /mnt/HD_a2/.systemfile/ /mnt/HD_a4/.systemfile/
/mnt/HD_a2/.systemfile/:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 36 Aug 24 12:47 Certs.info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1387 Aug 24 12:47 cacert.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1751 Aug 24 12:47 cakey.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1679 Aug 24 12:47 server-key-nopassword.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3066 Aug 24 12:47 server.pem
/mnt/HD_a4/.systemfile/:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 36 Sep 5 13:52 Certs.info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1387 Sep 5 13:52 cacert.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1743 Sep 5 13:52 cakey.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Feb 5 2009 hd_magic_num
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 512 Jan 12 2009 raidtab
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 310 Jan 12 2009 raidtab2web
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 9 2008 samba
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1675 Sep 5 13:52 server-key-nopassword.pem
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 3062 Sep 5 13:52 server.pem
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