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Croustibat
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Jul 22, 2013

Duo V1, new install with new hdd - 0Mb available - ntfs ?!?

Hi everyone,

i am currently running in an issue with my duo. I was running a single 1Tb drive, and switched to a single 2Tb drive. I installed the latest raidiator software 4.1.12 successfully, i can access the device from the http console, BUT the disk shows 0% space available out of 0Mb.

I searched through the forums and someone said to do a disk check, which i did. Nothing changed.

The disk is a SAMSUNG HD204UI , and is known to work on this device. I dont really know what to do ... it is a fresh install, i activated DLNA and NFS, nothing more i believe. i can see the /backup and /media folders from my computer, but cant access them.

I guess i am missing something but cant see what. Please, help ? Thanks !

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  • Ok so fdisk tells me i have a partition type 7 on that drive. which is NTFS. I guess this is the heart of my problem ... can i just destroy that partition ? and do the install cycle again, or is this perfectly normal ?

    This is a second hand hdd, sorry i forgot to mention that ...


    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/hdc1 11 20563300 1953512448 7 HPFS/NTFS

    Command (m for help): q

    Nas-data:~# df -h
    Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/hdc1 1.8T 865M 1.8T 1% /
    tmpfs 16k 0 16k 0% /USB
    Nas-data:~# cd /
    Nas-data:/# ls
    bin dev frontview initrd lost+found opt ramfs sbin tmp usr
    c etc home lib mnt proc root sys USB var
    Nas-data:/# cat /etc/fstab
    /dev/hdc1 / ext3 defaults,noatime 0 1
    proc /proc proc defaults 0 0


    how can it use 865Mb out of 1.8T and use 1% of the disk ? How is it even able to write on an NTFS partition ? I should not be able to even list the device ... Fstab says ext3 drive though. I really dont understand what is happening here.
  • Yes, i am going to do that. I tried adding the boot flag and changing the partition id to a linux one, and surprisingly it booted. I'll just delete that partition and try again.

    Still i am surprised raidiator did not delete that partition when it installed.

    If it still does not work i will try the software you linked. I will report my findings anyway. Thanks everyone :D

    edit: so, first report. Raidar reports "corrupt root" and i got a blue led, meaning it must be formatting it. I hope it does.
  • Are you sure it's formatting. Usually that message means you need to factory default.
  • It should have finished by now, and it has not.

    Here goes factory default ... i need to find a needle or something.
    edit: needle found, formatting.
  • Ok, it works now.

    I really think we should get an option to format the drive without going for a concealed switch ... or at least get a clear warning /indication when a new disk is detected.

    Thanks everyone, problem solved.
  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    There has been an improvement in this area with the new models (RN102, RN104, RN312 etc.). As for the legacy models such as the Duo I would expect handling of new hard drives would remain how it is at the moment.

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