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"OS6" - a question or three
First, a direct question: I'm currently running my Pro BE's with 5 or 6 disks using "x-raid2" and "dual redundancy." (RAID6 with the xraid2 expansion scheme.) I downloaded the manual for one of...
OS6 also supports HFS+, fat32 and NTFS (BTRFS is not listed officially but of course works). Exfat is not supported but is quite easy to add via SSH (2 packages to get via apt get, not additional config), still I would stick with supported file formats for safety.
So any computer can format a drive and have it read by the NAS. You could also use a linux live CD if needed.
I agree for the the permissions on the USB drive. I have two ideas but haven't tested them, they can impact the access to the USB device.
1- set restrictive files rights (700 for admin user), even if the drive is shared, files shouldn't be readable.
2- use /etc/fstab and the USB device UID to mount the device to somewhere else. I think OS6 mounts drives to data and shares what's in it. Mounting it elsewhere would prevent this auto share. This could also impact the ability to backup to the drive. Creating a user and mounting the USB drive in /home/user and using the backup utility to backup this home directory could be a solution to that.
Those two options have not been tested and are not supported by Netgear, but they are ideas that didn't sound stupid to me ;)
So any computer can format a drive and have it read by the NAS. You could also use a linux live CD if needed.
I agree for the the permissions on the USB drive. I have two ideas but haven't tested them, they can impact the access to the USB device.
1- set restrictive files rights (700 for admin user), even if the drive is shared, files shouldn't be readable.
2- use /etc/fstab and the USB device UID to mount the device to somewhere else. I think OS6 mounts drives to data and shares what's in it. Mounting it elsewhere would prevent this auto share. This could also impact the ability to backup to the drive. Creating a user and mounting the USB drive in /home/user and using the backup utility to backup this home directory could be a solution to that.
Those two options have not been tested and are not supported by Netgear, but they are ideas that didn't sound stupid to me ;)
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