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Title: Adding a already formatted disk without losing data
Post by: beavisjohn on October 20, 2011, 01:36:23 AM

Hello,

I have read all the posts, the manual and even played with the emulator (a bit). It is not clear to me if I can add a already formatted disk without losing data ? Disk has been preformatted using ext3 filesystem.

Thank you for your help.

Title: Re: Adding a already formatted disk without losing data
Post by: priitv8 on October 22, 2011, 03:01:21 AM

My understanding of that post is, that as long as HDD is formatted as Ext2/3, the NAS will keep it intact, unless you specifically reformat it:
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=41180.msg142414#msg142414 (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=41180.msg142414#msg142414)

Title: Re: Adding a already formatted disk without losing data
Post by: JavaLawyer on October 22, 2011, 05:18:40 AM

Quote from: beavisjohn on October 20, 2011, 01:36:23 AM

Hello,

I have read all the posts, the manual and even played with the emulator (a bit). It is not clear to me if I can add a already formatted disk without losing data ? Disk has been preformatted using ext3 filesystem.

Thank you for your help.

Was this disk formatted on your DNS-325 or a PC?