On 2020-06-20 22:48, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 2020-06-21 10:15, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 20Jun2020 16:28, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin(a)fastmail.us> wrote:
>> Fred, my objective is to use the drive as an NAS. The drive began life
>> as a WD Mybook, it had two 2GB partitions for whatever reason and I had
>> been using it to save NFS files etc. [...]
> Since the ASUS will be mounting the drive and sharing the data, the ASUS
> may require particular filesystems (I'm imagining exfat or fat32). What
> filesystem is on the drive at present?
>
> Also, is it a DOS partition table or GPT? Might also be relevant.
Thanks for beating me to this. :-) :-)
FWIW, ASUS doesn't seem to keep their compatibility charts up to date.
I found
https://event.asus.com/2009/networks/disksupport/ but this is from 2009 and the
RT-ARCH13
isn't listed. But the similar product RT-ARCH15 is. And it shows that ext4 is NOT
supported.
°
When I look at the drive on this computer with I gparted I see:
[root@Workstation-1 bobg]# gparted /dev/sdc
WD My Book 25EE ext4 /run/media/bobg/bbdb9a5e-5003-4d4e-a18c-fb30a248
Perhaps I need to change the file system to vfat, gpt, or whatever samba
wants? ASUS appears to be using a version of DD-WRT with their own gui,
I believe the hype mentioned WRT? One reason for getting this router was
to try the USB attached hard drive using an unmodified router, I always
buy a router that is listed compatible with DD-WRT or preferably
Tomato-USB, the latter preferred since it logs daily usage per ipaddress
so I know what is hogging my b.w. allocation. I had similar, probably
the same, problems withe router I've been using for the last year which
I reworked for Tomato-USB, a DD-WRT related program.
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