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Hi Guys,
I've just successfully upgraded to v15.1 and I love it, even if it seems a bit slower now on my NS2.

I bought an external docking station on Amazon, Inateck FDU3C-2 USB 3.0 2 bay, not sure the link is visible outside Italy (http://www.amazon.it/Inateck-FDU3C-2-al ... ck+usb+3.0).

I noticed that it perfectly works pluggin it on the front USB of my NAS, when disks are partitioned as NTFS. If I format them to ext4, the drives are not recognized at all.
I didn't try ext3 as it apparently takes ages to format (or create the filesystem?).

Any idea about something related with USB disks formatted with ext4?
Now I reverted back to NTFS, but I'd like to use ext4.

Thanks a lot,
MDI

Hi mdi,

if I understand currently the usb disks with ext4 filesystem fails to mount. Maybe I have to do some changes in the mount script ,and I need some outputs. So could you post these:

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/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdx

(change x by the right letter)

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/sbin/gdisk -l /dev/sdx

and on the data partition

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/sbin/vol_id -t /dev/sdxn

Currently, the script should allow this : it tries to mount any linux partition (code 83/8300) formatted: ext2, ext3, ext4

Hi Jocko,
thank you for your fast reply! Unfortunately I cannot directly check now, as I'm working in my office. Tonight I will be able to write you again. Sorry about that, especially because you have been so fast!

L8'er and cheers,
MDI

Maybe an explanation...

I create an ext4 usb drive and indeed the script failed to mount the usb drive.

I noted that vol_id see my usb drive as an ext3 usb drive ! and so the mount command is wrong.

Could you confirm this point?

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root@Acrab:/usr/sbin # file -sL /dev/sem1
/dev/sem1: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data, UUID=cb145ae3-368b-4b9f-9ca0-6f5e7b533365 (extents) (large files) (huge files)

root@Acrab:/usr/sbin # vol_id -t /dev/sem1
ext3


So need to see why vol_id returns a wrong file system type :scratch

Hi Jocko, I'm so sorry, but i will be home late. I will try to confirm later.

So many thanks for investigating on your own, very kind of you.

Cheers,
MDI

do not worry, I can easily wait :lmao

Finally, Fvdw and me worked on this vol_id issue and now it gets the right type values.

Attached a patch, to install it use the patch upload menu by the usual way.

Thank to test it.

Hi Jocko, finally I was able to test it. And I found something curious. On the docking station I have 2 bays, so I had two NTFS 2TB disks. I reformatted one of those to ext4.

When I plugged the dosking station with both disks (NTFS+ext4) I got the following:

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root@nas:/ # file -sL /dev/sdd1
/dev/sdd1: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x52, OEM-ID "NTFS    ", sectors/cluster 8, reserved sectors 0, Media descriptor 0xf8, heads 255, hidden sectors 34, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x80)
root@nas:/ # file -sL /dev/sdd2
/dev/sdd2: ERROR: cannot open `/dev/sdd2' (No such file or directory)


But then I tried to remove the NTFS disk and only leave the ext4 one:

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root@nas:/ # file -sL /dev/sdd1
/dev/sdd1: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data, UUID=2f9bccfa-204f-4c96-ae23-8f4e8d90a91d, volume name "data2" (extents) (large files) (huge files)
root@nas:/ # vol_id -t /dev/sdd1
ext3


So, same results as in your case.

I will now install the patch and let you know.

Thanks,
MDI

Hi guys,
good and bad news.

The good one is that you're great! Within the same day you posted me a patch to solve the issue about the filesystem! :applause :applause

I could access the ext4 disk from the NAS now.

The bad news is that I only see 1 of the 2 disks I have in my docking station, while I was able to access both disks when formatted to NTFS.
I suspect that this may be due to the way they are formatted and the docking station that maybe filters the requests somehow...
Anyway, when connecting to the NAS, I see 1 disk, if I just move the cable and connect to the PC (running Linux Mint live cd) I immediately see both disks.... :scratch

I will make further tests and let you know... Maybe in the following days.

Thanks a lot for your efforts of today!! Great work!! :applause :applause :applause

Maybe I understood.
Before I had 1 disk formatted with MBR, the other with the UUID partition table, both with 1 partition ext4. I could only see one of them and I supposed it was the one with MBR.

Now I formatted the two disks with UUID PT and the nas doesn-t recognize any of them.
But this is the output with the commands you suggested:

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root@nas:/ # file -sL /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data, UUID=fdb56598-ff00-44db-8d92-f73c68bec11a, volume name "data1" (extents) (large files) (huge files)
root@nas:/ # file -sL /dev/sdc1
/dev/sdc1: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data, UUID=df18f6da-a400-4551-9795-2f6afaab4a54, volume name "data2" (extents) (large files) (huge files)


Maybe I can try formatting with MBR, but it takes a wile to me, so, unless you have an idea from these info, I will try tomorrow.

Ah, this is the vol_id output:

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root@nas:/ # vol_id /dev/sdb1
ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
ID_FS_TYPE=ext4
ID_FS_VERSION=1.0
ID_FS_UUID=fdb56598-ff00-44db-8d92-f73c68bec11a
ID_FS_UUID_ENC=fdb56598-ff00-44db-8d92-f73c68bec11a
ID_FS_LABEL=data1
ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=data1
root@nas:/ # vol_id /dev/sdc1
ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
ID_FS_TYPE=ext4
ID_FS_VERSION=1.0
ID_FS_UUID=df18f6da-a400-4551-9795-2f6afaab4a54
ID_FS_UUID_ENC=df18f6da-a400-4551-9795-2f6afaab4a54
ID_FS_LABEL=data2
ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=data2


Thanks,
MDI