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Jayce
Aug 18, 2016Aspirant
External USB Drive, write protected in EXT4 ???
Ok, so after having issues trying to use external USB disk to backup my ReadyNAS, i did some tests...
If I format the disk as NTFS, it works OK read/write.
It appears that if i format the disk as EXT4, i can't write on it, and can't change permissions.
Then i tried to format it as EXT3, and after half an hour it still didn't finished formatting. When i tried to eject the disk the ReadyNAS crashed.
After reboot, the disk disk was not even seen when i plugged/unplugged it... Ok, so i plug it on my Mac and format it as HFS+ then it is seen again on the readyNAS.
So, as HFS+, the disk is seen OK as read/write...
Then tried again to format as EXT3 and it took again ages to format... (so long that i didn't wait the end)
So, i will end using NTFS, even if it's a shame to use such format on a "linux" box...
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- mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee Retired
Which ReadyNAS model is this with and which firmware are you running?
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