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RAX40 creates Folders when External HDD connected
I setup my RAX40 over the weekend and connected my 10TB external hard drive to it.
The router recognizes it fine, but it'll create 2 folders - "$RECYCLE.BIN" and "DISC-2".
I can't delete them.
When I open the DISC-2 folder, it just opens another screen with all the content on the hard drive.
I didn't have this issue when the external was connected to my R7000.
When I connect the external to my PC by USB 3.0, the 2 folders don't show up as folders, but as another file type and I can delete them.
Reconnect the external to the router, those 2 folders are created again.
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A recent SAMBA implementation with the vfs_recycle module loaded will create a hidden $RECYCLE.BIN folder for Recycle Bin in every mounted drive - the direct access to it as a "normal" folder is prohibited.
Wild guess, the DISC-2 might be a volume label also created by the SAMBA implementation and the RAX mounter.
Afraid, I have no idea what is currently implemented on the RAX - have no such consumer device at hand.
Christian_R can you please share some insights?I can understand the $RECYCLE.BIN folder since I've seen that before, just odd seeing it since my R7000 never made one, or it wasn't visible.
The DISC-2 seems like a volume folder.
I open the first DISC-2 folder, another folder opens up with my external HDD contents with the DISC-2 folder again.
Open that up, shows the HDD contents for a 3rd time.
When I open that DISC-2 folder, I get an error message.
Just annoying seeing that folder on the hard drive and it's useless.The R7000 had a very basic and simple SAMBA implementation, proably no recycle bin support.
When looking at the shared folders on the router, is this DISC-2 used as a defautl share name for this disk?
