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Title: Reformat to ext3
Post by: zforum69 on February 23, 2010, 04:45:04 PM

I just upgraded to 1.08 and want to reformat my drives to ext3.  Currently the NAS has them configured as two individual drives.  All the data is now on volume_1.  I went to the raid configuration dialagoue box but it then popped up a warning that I will lose all my data so I chickened out.

Can somebody confirm that there are acutally more steps forthcoming before I actually lose my data.  i.e. will it then let me choose to reformat volume_2 to ext3, thus preseving volueme_1, after which I can then transfer all the data to volume_2 before reformatting volume_1 to ext3.

Thanks,
Z

Title: Re: Reformat to ext3
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on February 23, 2010, 04:49:26 PM

Take the volume with data on it out and then format the other one.  No danger that way. :D

Title: Re: Reformat to ext3
Post by: Topgundcp on February 24, 2010, 10:00:40 AM

Just curious: what benefit of ext3 over ext2 ? speed ?

Edit: OK, I found the answer:
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/03/nori/maenad/geek/di8k-debian/node29.html

You could use Partition Manager 10  To convert from ext2 to ext3. Just download a trial version, convert it then uninstall.

Title: Re: Reformat to ext3
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on February 24, 2010, 11:10:28 AM

Actually, it's reliability, not speed that distinguishes the EXT3 format. :)  It adds journaling to the filesystem.

Title: Re: Reformat to ext3
Post by: Tank_Killer on February 24, 2010, 07:18:19 PM

with limited CPU power wouldnt you actually take a small hit on performance with ext3?  I mean I noticed a small difference when i used RAID0 over RAID1 or single fixed disk (raid0 being slightly slower).

I havent tried ext3 on my dns ever so I cant say for sure

Title: Re: Reformat to ext3
Post by: fordem on February 25, 2010, 03:18:14 AM

You do take a performance hit with ext3, and I believe that happens with any amount of processing power, and perhaps more so with limited cpu power.

When 1.08 was first released in beta I somehow ended up with two identical drives in my DNS-323, one formatted ext2, the other ext3 and I used the opportunity to conduct speed tests - the results were posted - I'll see if I can find them and post a link.

Edit - Here you go (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=5572.0)