Need help sharing ext3 USB Drive

Re: Need help sharing ext3 USB Drive

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:02:17 +0000

That's strange. My NTFS drive mounted and I could read and write to it, and cat /etc/filesystems doesn't return ntfs in the list

ext3 is on the list, but ext3 drives don't automount.

Re: Need help sharing ext3 USB Drive

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:25:04 +0000

i'm sorry
when I wrote echo ntfs /etc/filesystems , i meant echo ntfs»/etc/filesystems so that if you run 'cat /etc/filesystems' it should return ntfs in the list

Re: Need help sharing ext3 USB Drive

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:49:37 +0000

I just upgraded the firmware to 10.0016, and try to mount an external 160gb-NTFS, it just shown on USB Disks of storage tab, but not mounted and shared. Haven't run any prep srcipt but did the 'echo ntfs /etc/filesystems', still my external USB drive not shown in shares,
however if i connect a usb-key (4gb-FAT) it does show up automatically, anyone have any clue what should I do to make a NTFS drive automatically mounted and shared ?

Thanks

Re: Need help sharing ext3 USB Drive

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:13:28 +0000

Nevermind for now…

Re: Need help sharing ext3 USB Drive

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:57:57 +0000

NTFS (formatted from Win XP) works just fine. didn't even need to do 'echo ntfs /etc/filesystems', though I have run frater's prep script. I'm not sure how to set up cron without it though.

Re: Need help sharing ext3 USB Drive

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:24:40 +0000

why don't you format it as ntfs? It can handle large files and it automounts without problems (after you 'echo ntfs /etc/filesystems')
I tried rsync and it works ok with ntfs.
I have another question.
How can I schedule a script that runs rsync every lets say 1 week? Preferably without frater's prep script (because the disk doesn't go to sleep).
I want to create a simple script so that if /shares/usb-share1 exists, run rsync every 1 week.

Thanks

Re: Need help sharing ext3 USB Drive

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:16:19 +0000

Yeah, it mounts automatically as FAT32, but FAT32 is no good for my backup purposes. I've got some very large files on the drive that I need to backup.

Also, I've done another reboot, and the drive id has now increased to /dev/sdd1, so it seems to increase with each reboot.

There's no fstab file on this thing and I'm not sure how mtab works (I thought it was automatically updated when a mount command was executed), or how the auto mounting works.

Re: Need help sharing ext3 USB Drive

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:20:56 +0000

Ough perhaps the reason is my key is fat32 ?

Re: Need help sharing ext3 USB Drive

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:19:02 +0000

Hello,

This is strange that you drive is not mounted automatically.
Mine is mounted on /shares/usb1-1share1 and is directly accessible with samba and ftp without any action.

Did you try with a USB key ?

Need help sharing ext3 USB Drive

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:36:55 +0000

I've successfully managed to partition and format my external drive as ext3, and managed to mount it (as the whitelight doesn't automatically mount it).

I did a reboot and it changed the drive from sdb to sdc, not a major drama.

How do I make the ext3 drive mount automatically, and be shared. Mounting to /shares/Backup does not do the job.

What I am trying to do is to have a 1TB ext3 partition mount automatically, and be accessible via sftp and samba. This will be my backup partition that I want to rsync the main volume to, to maintain an automatic backup of the drive.

I'm still pretty new to linux, so any help, or links would be greatly appreciated.