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Author Topic: Possible to partition a Hard drive ? - even offline then re-insert ?  (Read 2326 times)

keithjmason

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Hi,
It looks like its not possible to partition a drive and create 2 Volumes from within the NAS UI, unless I have missed something ?

Other option I was wondering about, is it possible to remove the drive, and then connect up to a unix system, partition the main partition into 2, re-insert the drive and the Dlink NAS happily now has 2 Volumes ?  or just wishful thinking perhaps..?

Thanks!

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JavaLawyer

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Re: Possible to partition a Hard drive ? - even offline then re-insert ?
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2014, 11:04:51 AM »

I would be very wary about using externally formatted HDDs. For the sake of data integrity, I would let the ShareCenter manage the configuration. The only way I know of to obtain multiple partitions are situations similar to the following: e.g. creating a RAID-1 that doesn't use the whole HDD, in which case the remainder can be used to create a JBOD.
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