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Netgear Readynas deleting file mediaID.bin
I have ReadyNas Firmware 6.10.4 and I've copied a windows backup to my readynas. I no longer need this backup and I've deleted it except for the mediaID.bin file. Readynas refuses to delete the file no matter how hard I've tried to get rid of it. On the admin page under shares, there isn't even an option to delete.... How do I get rid of this file so I can remove the entire directory structure that is 6 levels deep?
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There is an option to delete files and folders within a share from the admin web ui. Just choose "browse". Select the file/folder, and then right-click. You'll see a delete option there. You could also delete the entire share of course from the share settings wheel.
Another thing you can do is reset the file permissions for the share. You click on the settings wheel on the share page, and then select "settings". Choose the file access tab, and click the reset button on the left. After that completes, you should be able to delete the file from file explorer.
If the file is locked somehow, then the third thing you could do is simply reboot the NAS, and try to delete it again.
There is no option to delete the file mediaID.bin in the share folder. There is on all other files. It is missing on mediaID.bin... Thus my problem.
I also tried resetting the permissions and that file failed with Linux root failed error.
I've rebooted the NAS box many times, and the file and directory it is in, is still un-deleteable.
That's unusual - not something I've seen before.
One option (as I mentioned earlier) is to delete the entire share. That would require you to copy off all the other files in it that you want to save.
But before going to that extreme, I'd download the log zip file from the admin web ui (log page), and look in system.log and kernel.log for more details on the error. There's a lot in those files, so it is helpful to know the time of the error.
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