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Hello,
I'm trying to gather some information about this issue.
Apparently the DNS tends to format the wrong drive when attaching a new drive to it. At least that happend to me and I read it also in some other posts in this forum.
Therefore I search for a way to manually perform all the necessary tasks and avoid DNS messing up with the disks.
This is what I THINK it could work. I would like to discuss with you guys before trying it out.
First step would be to create the partions on the disk:
This can be done by utilizing the fdisk tool which is already included on the DNS box (in case you can access it via a shell) or by booting a linux distribution, e.g. Knoppix and partitioning the HDD there.
According to posts in the forum the partition table schould look somewhat like this for a 1TB hdd:
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
I wonder if the size of /dev/sdb4 matters since my partition table (160 GB hdd) looks like this:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 66 530113+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda2 93 19457 155549362+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 67 92 208845 83 Linux
However, in /dev/sdb1 a swap partition is formatted by mkswap.
The other two partitions (sdb2 & sdb4) are formated with ext2 by using mke2fs.
Further, there are system folders called ".systemfile" on both, /dev/sdb2 & /dev/sdb4 partitions that probably need to be created and filled with proper information.
I guess a good idea is to just copy the information of the first drives systemfile folder ( sda2 -> sdb2 & sda4 -> sdb4) to the second drive and set the permissions in a similar manner.
Is that it or is threre any other important thing that needs to be done to make DNS accept the harddrive and mount it without formatting it (does e.g. the label of the hdd matter?) ?
BR
Martin
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Martin77 wrote:
Is that it or is threre any other important thing that needs to be done to make DNS accept the harddrive and mount it without formatting it (does e.g. the label of the hdd matter?) ?
The DNS saves the partition UID in its flash. Not sure if you can change it.
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