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Shootland's avatar
Shootland
Aspirant
Oct 13, 2016

USB Drive Name Keeps Changing - ReadyNas 2100

I bought a bigger USB drive to backup my ReadyNas 2100. I realized that the usb drive name was changing everytime I replugged the drive back into the ReadyNas 2100. It went from usb_hdd_2 to as high ...
USB Drive Name Change
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JennC's avatar
JennC
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Oct 13, 2016

Hello Shootland,

 

Welcome to the community!

 

There is no option on the admin page that will allow you to set the NAS to keep the USB disk name and prevent it from changing, what I know is it is designed that way as it is not part of the ReadyNAS volume.

 

However, you might want to see these discussions: 

 

External USB ID (ie. USB_HDD_1) name keeps changing

USB drive renaming

 

Regards,

Shootland's avatar
Shootland
Aspirant
Oct 14, 2016

Hi JennC,

 

I've read every disscussion I came across. There is no solution for the ReadyNas 2100. The solution is to modify the usb-map file located in the /etc/frontview/usb directory. The ReadyNas 2100 has no file by that name. I will do another search for it. If I don't locate the file, I'll buy a new NAS. I would hate to buy a new Nas when I still have 53% of my 8TB left for storage.

 

Thanks again.

Shootland

  • JennC's avatar
    JennC
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Oct 14, 2016

    Hi Shootland,

     

    I understand and I apologize.

     

    Maybe add a comment or kudo to the suggestion made for this feature in the idea exchange would help.

     

    Regards,

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