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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. ...
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?
DISC-2 is not the shared name of the disk.
Does the RAX40 support 10TB external hard drives? I don't think that's the problem, but never know.
The RAX40 is updated to the newest firmware.
My desktop is the latest version of Win10 too.With a decent Kernel, the modern universal file system drivers can deal with large capacity block storage.
Some advanced storage devices (NAS) make use of a volume lablel (put onto the disk, becomes visible as a kind of strange file/folder) to identify the storage device, and put up shared folders and access rights - regardless of the port where the storage is connected to.
As I said, afraid, I don't know much about these RAX devices - and I'm not Netgear.