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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-320 => Topic started by: T4ng10r on January 25, 2013, 12:51:16 PM
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Hi,
I bought DNS-320 with decision to use my current Linux formated HDD. 5 ext3 partition, two first as a primary, the rest as a logic drive.
After HDD instalation in ShareCenter device found my HDD (it's visible in 'Disk managment'->'S.M.A.R.T Test' and in 'System status'->'Hard drive status'). Then when I tried to add network shares I discovered that I could only select folders from second PRIMARY ext3 partition (first primary and 3 last logical partitons wasn't visible).
After some work with repartitioning I reshape this drive to state with
1. Primary ext 3 partition
2. unused area
3. 3 logical drives (in extended area).
But no luck - DNS-320 discovers HDD but is unable to read its partitions and formats. So its worse then earlier.
I want to avoid whole disk format (more then 1TB of data to backup is a big problem).
How do I need to shape disk partitions so DNS-320 would discover it and allow me to share it content?
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I see this:
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=52039.msg195660#msg195660 (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=52039.msg195660#msg195660)
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Thank you for your response, it shed some light on this case.
Hmm, so first partition should be treated as swap disk... that why on admin site I saw only second primary partition.
Second though - on HDD in DNS you can create and use only 1 partition? No extra splitting? Just folders?
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Second though - on HDD in DNS you can create and use only 1 partition? No extra splitting? Just folders?
That is correct.
To use your drive in the DNS-320 first backup any data you want to keep then insert the disk and format it using the web interface. Once that is done set up your shares to do what you want and that is it.
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I think it's possible to mount the remaining partitions manually which of course would require installing FFP in order to have remote shell session.