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

dkl wrote:

Simplest thing to do would be to boot from a Linux Live CD (Knoppix, Ubuntu... for ex.) on any other PC and format your drive there with GParted or equiv.

OK, i was successfull with a Ubuntu 6.10 Live-CD using "GParted". However some more hints how to partition and format the drive would have been great. My first try was to create a primary partition and no extended partition on my 40 GB usb hard disc and i ran into the trouble that i got only a partition with a size of 8 GB because of addressing limitations.
My second try was to create an extended partition and within this a logical volume of size 40 GB and this worked. From my point of view it isn't self explaining how to format an external drive for the DNS-323 with ext2 for a
non partition, non linux guru
I thought maybe there is some service program on the DNS-323 like "mkfs.ext2" or a script which
could take over the task to format the usb disc like it was done for my primary SATA drive.

Ok, i agree on that, but it would have been possible that there is a kind of "generic" script / service / program
"prepare /dev/foo" which prepares the disc for usage. I found i.e. the fdisk program on the box which
gives some information on the external drive or e2fsck. So where is the partion and format stuff
which is used by the box to format the internal SATA drives ? Don't get me wrong, i'm perfectly happy with
my box now .

I like to give a short update: After i managed somehow to partition the drive as expected by the box i started a telnet session and there i started "mke2fs /dev/sdb5". And this did the job !
It formated the logical volume with ext2 file system.
Unfortunately "fdisk" on the DNS-323 seems to have some problems with the sizes of the drives, so that it seems to be impossible to use the fdisk from the box to partition the external drive.

fonz wrote:

Is it a problem of busybox1 fdisk in /usr/bin/fdisk? Have you tried fdisk from busybox 1.5.1 (my funplug) or 1.6.0 (fsck image)?

Ahh ! I just installed latest busybox/fun_plug.tar from fonz and now fdisk works like a charm.

It wasn't very clear to me that it makes sense to install this fun_plug-stuff because
i installed telnet and created my own fun_plug-file and everthing worked fine for
me (except fdisk). It wasn't clear that with the funplug.tar-file from fonz a new
version of fdisk is installed too. Sorry for this confusion.

The fun_plug.tar of fonz should be made a mandatory install to prevent people loosing their last hairs.
Well done , fonz ! 

Last edited by transstilben (2007-06-24 17:07:02)