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themoldy1
Sep 20, 2011Aspirant
How to access data via USB
I've posted a separate topic on probable failure of my ReadyNAS Duo's network card. In the meantime I've got important data I need to get off the NAS. I tried plugging my laptop directly into it via ...
bbaraniec
Sep 20, 2011Luminary
You will need to take our drives from Duo and "mount" then in any Linux supporting LVM.
Make sure that whoever will be helping you out knows what he/she is doing!
You can read more about LVM here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_volume_management
Basically your HDDs are PV (physical volumes) they are in VG (volume groups). In VG is/are LV (logical volumes).
PV1 PV2
\ /
VG
/ | \
LV1 LV2 LV3
ReadyNas has one VG called "c" and within it one LV "/dev/c/c"
Make sure that whoever will be helping you out knows what he/she is doing!
You can read more about LVM here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_volume_management
Basically your HDDs are PV (physical volumes) they are in VG (volume groups). In VG is/are LV (logical volumes).
PV1 PV2
\ /
VG
/ | \
LV1 LV2 LV3
ReadyNas has one VG called "c" and within it one LV "/dev/c/c"
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