Re: External usb drive -

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&gt; 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.