Need help sharing ext3 USB Drive

Need help sharing ext3 USB Drive

The Puppeteer 02 Jul 2009 15:36

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.

Re: Need help sharing ext3 USB Drive

david_tre07 02 Jul 2009 20:19

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 ?

Re: Need help sharing ext3 USB Drive

david_tre07 02 Jul 2009 20:20

Ough perhaps the reason is my key is fat32 ?

Re: Need help sharing ext3 USB Drive

The Puppeteer 02 Jul 2009 23:16

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

Dryvlyne 06 Jul 2009 03:13

Nevermind for now…

Last edited on 06 Jul 2009 03:31 by Dryvlyne Show more

Re: Need help sharing ext3 USB Drive

andrew_sh 03 Jul 2009 16:24

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

The Puppeteer 06 Jul 2009 02:57

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

emitremus 13 Jul 2009 02:49

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

andrew_sh 14 Jul 2009 06:25

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

Last edited on 14 Jul 2009 06:25 by andrew_sh Show more

Re: Need help sharing ext3 USB Drive

The Puppeteer 15 Jul 2009 13:02

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.