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Title: Disk Quotas
Post by: tnsage on December 13, 2010, 06:14:50 AM

 :) I have set my DNS 323 with 2 Samsung 1tb Spinpoint drives, and all works fine and dandy

Two Issues are bugging me

Scan disk is greyed out. I ran it once, after the power accidentally got pulled, and since then it has been greyed out

Also, I have tried everything I can to get disk quotas to work, and no matter what I do nothing seems to change the "unlimited" from changing to my desired quota limits. (don't want my children flooding it with their files)

At the mo I am backing all files from it to do a re-format of the drives

Also it their a simple, easy and idiot proof way to host a web site from it, not bothered about the world seeing it, just as an Intranet. Seen things like funplugs, and an o/s that replaces or sits on top of the built in one. But I see lots of "Don't Brick It" warnings

Regards

Tim

Title: Re: Disk Quotas
Post by: jamieburchell on December 13, 2010, 06:49:52 AM

Restetting the unit back to factory defaults and re-formatting may cure the issues. Are you also running a recent firmware version? I.e. 1.08 or 1.09?

As for hosting a web server, you will need Fonz Funplug to do this. It's unsupported by Dlink, but if you don't mind tinkering with your NAS, and have a backup of your data, it's generally quite safe providing you don't flash anything. As you have root level access to the NAS, you can do all sorts of things - including wipe your drives.

Title: Re: Disk Quotas
Post by: tnsage on December 13, 2010, 07:15:35 AM

Thanx for the reply.

I have installed several firmware updates, 1.08 bets, 1.08 final, now on 1.09

I think the box was on 1.02 or the like when I first connected it

I am at the mo moving all the data of it.

Am I right in thinking that I can use more than 1 format type, e.g ext 3 or ext 4. What is the general view, I have read that ext3 is the more stable and faster.

Regards

Tim

Title: Re: Disk Quotas
Post by: jamieburchell on December 13, 2010, 02:44:39 PM

The choices are EXT2 or EXT3. EXT2 is apparently marginally faster, but EXT3 offers journalling support so is more robust. I'd go with EXT3 personally.

Title: Re: Disk Quotas
Post by: tnsage on December 15, 2010, 03:53:49 AM

Well, after backing all my data off, and re-formatting, and deciding on EXT2, all now works fine

Now have scandisk, and also quotas working

Thanx for the replies

Tim