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Christof999 · 2007-07-11 06:51:43

Hello,

since I can transfer much faster when my disks are plugged into the mother board, Id like to copy all my data onto 500gb disks, and then put them in the NAS without formatting them. Is it possible to put disks which already contain data into the NAS and avoid the disks being formatted ? I want to use the standard setting, and have two 500gb drives. The drives are already formatted ext3.

Thanks
C.

fordem · 2007-07-11 13:34:45

Officially ext3 is not supported - it was dropped in one of the firmware updates because of data corruption, you might want to avoid using it, unless of course you want to pinpoint the cause of the corruption and fix it through fun_plug.

I believe if you do the initial format in the DNS-323 and then move the disk to the desktop you can transfer data to them and return them to the DNS-323, but it's not something I've actually tried - I do know that you can remove a disk and replace it at a later date, without having to format it when you re-install it, provided you were setup as two separate disks and not RAID or JBOD

transstilben · 2007-07-11 15:55:16

Christof999 wrote:
Hello,

since I can transfer much faster when my disks are plugged into the mother board, Id like to copy all my data onto 500gb disks, and then put them in the NAS without formatting them ...

If this is really what you want, i would do it as follows:

1.) Put the disk into the DNS-323 Box and let the box partition and format it (with EXT2 !). Do NOT
use RAID0 or RAID1. The box will create a linux swap partion (Type 82) and a data partition (type 83).
I think there is even one more partition with type 83 after that.

2.) Move the disk out and put it into your pc. "Mount" the data partition and put you data onto the disc

3.) Remove the disc from the pc and put it back into the DNS-323 box.

Thats all. Further more it is a good idea to have telnet working on the box so that you can take a look at the disk's partition table using "fdisk /dev/sda". This i.e. works perfectly after having installed "Fonz's Fun_plug".

zeroday · 2007-07-11 22:09:23

I think this could be a good feature: ext3 to ext2 where ext3 is only journalized ext2 so you can remove that with some commands.
it's already avail in normal linux so why not. I think they can do that.

transstilben · 2007-07-11 23:13:01

zeroday wrote:
I think this could be a good feature: ext3 to ext2 where ext3 is only journalized ext2 so you can remove that with some commands.
it's already avail in normal linux so why not. I think they can do that.

If this is possible without the need to backup all the data before the conversion EXT3 -> EXT2,
it would have been a nice feature for D-Link when removing the EXT3-Option with newer firmware.

Here comes some more pieces of information how ONE internal hard disk
looks like after putting it into the DNS-323 and formating it:

BusyBox v1.5.0 (2007-05-06 16:42:17 CEST) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/ # fdisk /dev/sda

Command "p" (print partition table):

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 93 60801 487645042+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 67 92 208845 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Last edited by transstilben (2007-07-12 00:21:03)

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