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Jayce
Aspirant
Aug 18, 2016

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 a...
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Jayce's avatar
Jayce
Aspirant
Aug 18, 2016

It's a ReadyNAS 102 with 6.5.1.

The external USB disk is a 3To disk.

 

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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Sep 09, 2016

With 6.5.2 you can use BTRFS the same filesystem we use for the internal disks. You may want to give that a try.

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