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I'm a little bit confused after reading installation manuals, so I just want to make it clear for me - it is actually possible to use console app to install the firmware to LaCie CloudBox with original disk? Or it is necessary to remove partitions prior to installing?

you could delete them first and choose the option "new disk" in the installer.
If it has an ms-dos partition table you can use before running the installer script use the linux command

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fdisk /dev/sda

and then in fdisk the command d to delete all the partitions and then the command w to write the new table to disk.
if it is a gpt partiton table use the command

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gdisk /dev/sda

and use the d, w and finally answer Y on the last question

to viw partiton table use the p command in either gdisk or fdisk

fvdw wrote:you could delete them first and choose the option "new disk" in the installer.
If it has an ms-dos partition table you can use before running the installer script use the linux command
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if it is a gpt partiton table use the command

I'm sorry for being lame, but how could these different options appear? I mean that I have a brand new Lacie Cloudbox 2TB out of the box. I don't know which partition table does it have by default, but I guess it is not ms-dos, right?
So my question is what is the simpliest default way for me to install your firmware? Do I need to run the commands you mentioned myself, or the installer can delete and recreate the partitions on its own?

Thanks in advance!

in case of the cloudbox I advise to do it manually.

I expect it is GPT table

You can try easy to see if has ms-dos or gpt partiton table, just do

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gdisk -l /dev/sda

you will output like this

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root@(none):/ # gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.5

Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 3907029168 sectors, 1.8 TiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 48EB39C7-FA39-4315-9B4C-B7E4FE438E83
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 3907029134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)


Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            2048            4095   1024.0 KiB  EF02  grub_core      fvdw: ef02 is bios boot partition
   2            4096          397311   192.0 MiB   8300  boot_rescue    fvdw: 8300 linux file system
   3          397312          399359   1024.0 KiB  8300  nv_data   fvdw: 8300 linux file system
   4          399360         3545087   1.5 GiB     FD00  root_1      fvdw: fd00 Linux raid
   5         3545088         6690815   1.5 GiB     FD00  root_2
   6         6690816         8787967   1024.0 MiB  FD00  var
   7         8787968         9312255   256.0 MiB   FD00  swap
   8         9312256      3907029134   1.8 TiB     FD00  user_data

Notice the line mentioning it is GPT table.