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Title: QUERY: parted magic on NAS
Post by: andwan0 on September 12, 2012, 03:37:01 AM

Hi

Is it possible to re-partition the HDD without wiping it (ie. retaining existing data). I can do this using "Parted Magic" live-CD on a laptop/PC, but not sure how to go about this with a NAS.

Currently I have one full/large NTFS partition on my NAS, but I would like to create a FAT32 partition.

Any help very much appreciated

Cheers

Title: Re: QUERY: parted magic on NAS
Post by: albert on September 12, 2012, 04:56:08 AM

Are you going to use this HDD on the NAS? If yes, then repartitioning will not work as the NAS expect the partitions to be created in a certain way using Linux filesystem (EXT2/3).

Title: Re: QUERY: parted magic on NAS
Post by: ivan on September 12, 2012, 06:13:33 AM

andwan0, if the hard disk you are talking about is currently in your NAS then you don't have an NTFS partition on it - that is unless you have changed the firmware to something strange.

The standard DNS-320 formats the disk/s with Ext2/3 and will not recognise any windows format on the disk/s.  What you want to do is a sure way of loosing all your data.

The other thing is why would you want to do what you describe?