DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

You cannot do this because the disks in the DNS323 are formatted with the ext2 filesystem and the commands you suggest are NTFS commands.

Also, DON'T replace only one disk in the NAS leaving the other one next to it. I did that saturday and the damned NAS formatted the old one even though it said it would format the new one! I lost 450GB of data and could only recover a very few files using photorec.

What yo could do is:

1. Take out both old disks
2. Insert one new disk and let the NAS format it
3. Remove this disk.
4. Insert the other new disk and let the NAS format it.
5. Now insert one new and one old disk
6. install funplug
7. launch telnet
8. Then "cp -r -a /mnt/HD_a2 /mnt/HD_b2" or "cp -r -a /mnt/HD_b2 /mnt/HD_a2" - depending on which disk is which
9. Then do the same with the other old disk

have fun

A further question:
In the previously mentioned procedure, is there any issue with first putting in 1 disk into the dns-323, and then putting in a second?
Will it automatically format the second disk drive after it is put in?
Also, is XCOPY a fast enough approach for approximately 750gb? (Or will that take many days to copy?)

uyuni wrote:

fordem, you are right. I was too quick with the reading and assumed that jacktheman18 was putting an NTFS fromatted disk into the DNS323 but I realize now that this is not the case (sorry). I agree that the proposed procedure will work just fine even though it is not the fastest way to reach the goal e.g. replacing 2x500GB disks with 2x1TB disks.

jacktheman18, I would be very cautious about inserting a fresh second disk into the DNS323 and format it when you have non-backed up data on the other disk. As I said, the DNS323 has a firmware bug that sometimes formats the wrong disk. It is mentioned some other posts in this forum. Alas, I only discovered it afterwards :-(

Is there any other way to upgrade the capacity of the DNS-323 with fresh disks? Any suggestions for backing up such an enormous amount of data?

unfortunately, I am using both 500gb disks as JBOD, at present.
However, can you please explain the format of this step:
5) copy data (rsync) from 500GB drive to 1TB drive

So, attach one 1TB disk via USB, SATA, IDE, whatever to a machine, copy, across the network, all the data from the JBOD'd 500GB disks in the DNS-323 to it, then take out those 500GB drives, insert the second, blank 1TB disk into the DNS-323, format it, set up your shares, permissions, etc., then copy the data, across the network, from the first 1TB drive attached to the computer, to the 2nd 1TB drive installed in the DNS-323, then uninstall the first 1TB disk from your computer, install it into the DNS-323, format it (make sure which one you're formatting!), and you're good to go.