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Author Topic: QUERY: parted magic on NAS  (Read 3227 times)

andwan0

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QUERY: parted magic on NAS
« 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
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albert

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Re: QUERY: parted magic on NAS
« Reply #1 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).
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ivan

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Re: QUERY: parted magic on NAS
« Reply #2 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?
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