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OS6 now works on x86 Legacy WARNING: NO NTGR SUPPORT!
Update: It is now unofficially possible using NTGR images to update legacy hardware to os6.X
See Post #3, for directions to install 6.2.1 on x86 Ultra and Pro Models. (ARM NOT SUPPORTED by this OS)
Be forewarned, this requires a SYSTEM WIPE and likely voids any warranty support from NTGR
Supported so far: pro 2/4/6, ultra 2/4/6, old pro / Pioneer Pro, 2100v2
Not Supported: NVX and 2100v1
Thanks go out to "HomeBrew Anonymous" for making this possible.
Update 2: A firmware image to downgrade back to 4.2.26 is now available. See this thread. While this downgrade should get you a working system again on the supported firmware, be forewarned this requires a SYSTEM WIPE and NetGear also does not provide support for this downgrade. If you have issues seek help on these forums.
Original Post/Gripes
I have been reading these forums since Monday's announcement and there has been a resounding "ooof" regarding the fact the Ultras and Pros are unsupported for future OS improvements.
To clear the air: it would appear Netgear will never support os6 on past hardware. I have almost come to grips with this, and at least they have been open and honest with their forward direction and aren't stringing us along. viewtopic.php?f=138&t=70131
The upside is our devices still work and are mostly stable and eventually we can upgrade to a new shell that has os6 support, but in the meantime our $500-1000 investment is unable to take advantage of modern features we all desire.
I don't think I can add a poll here at RN forums, but I would like to garner support for a 100% unsupported home brew of the os6 on Pro6 units.
If we get enough support perhaps a talented member(s) here would help release a homebrew of sorts.
The 3 main caveats are:
1. Netgear will never be held responsible/your warranty is void
2. A format is required (new FS and OS)
3. Data loss is highly possible
If you are still interested please post a reply to this thread.
mdgm and I have decided that its time to lock this thread. So please do post any new OS6 on Legacy issues on their own threads.
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- No its still syncing with another 70+ hours to go. The drives are WD 2TB reds. I went from raid 5 to 6. I have a 6700 processor with 4GB of ram - cant believe the sync can take so long.
My next step is to add another to expand my storage. Probably do this when I go away.... - Okay folks here's a new one:
About and hour ago I rebooted a ReadyNAS Ultra 4 with four 1TB drives. I did this about 30 minutes after deleting a share from the GUI that had about 80% of the data volume's files in it. I rebooted because the pie charts and graphs in the GUI were not reflecting any change of available free space. After the reboot, the GUI did reflect quite a bit more free space in the data volume, but now every 10 minutes I'm getting sent an E-Mail that says:System volume 'root' usage is 91 %. This condition should not occur in normal conditions. Please contact technical support.
System volume 'root' usage is 100 %. This condition should not occur in normal conditions. Please contact technical support.
System volume 'root' usage is 99 %. This condition should not occur in normal conditions. Please contact technical support.
System volume 'root' usage is 99 %. This condition should not occur in normal conditions. Please contact technical support.
Etc., etc., etc. over and over.
From the command line I ran:df
which resulted inFilesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 4192192 3505532 48140 99% /
tmpfs 10240 4 10236 1% /dev
/dev/md0 4192192 3505532 48140 99% /
tmpfs 2021468 0 2021468 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 2021468 4544 2016924 1% /run
tmpfs 2021468 0 2021468 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 2021468 0 2021468 0% /media
/dev/md127 2915731968 866720844 1933903372 31% /data
/dev/md127 2915731968 866720844 1933903372 31% /home
/dev/md127 2915731968 866720844 1933903372 31% /apps
Help! I have no clue how to troubleshoot this one.
Thanks in advance! - Your 4GB OS partition is full.
You can use the du command to find out what's filling it up.
You could start by doing e.g.
# du -csh /var/log mdgm wrote: du -csh /var/log
Results in:121M /var/log
121M total
Pardon my ignorance, but that means nothing to me. . . :oops:- That means 121MB of the 4GB is in use in /var/log, so the problem is somewhere else. There's probably a folder somewhere with roughly 3GB in use that is on the OS partition (not on your data volume(s)).
mdgm wrote: That means 121MB of the 4GB is in use in /var/log, so the problem is somewhere else. There's probably a folder somewhere with roughly 3GB in use that is on the OS partition (not on your data volume(s)).
Is there some sort of filter, option, or pipe that I can use in conjunction with "du" that would give me a summary list of the directory tree from largest to smallest (or vice versa) so I can figure out what directory to start looking in?
EDIT: Never mind. I think I figured that one out on my own. I used:du -h --max-depth=1 /
Which resulted in:7.1M /bin
0 /boot
4.0K /dev
6.4M /etc
72K /home
21M /lib
4.0K /lib64
0 /media
0 /mnt
5.0M /opt
0 /proc
24K /root
4.5M /run
8.2M /sbin
0 /selinux
0 /srv
0 /sys
52K /tmp
444M /usr
2.8G /var
18M /frontview
2.8T /data
928K /apps
2.8T /
It looks like there is something going on in /var. . .
find {/path/to/directory} -type f -size +{file-size-in-kb}k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }'- or
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 du -s | sort -n | tail -10 | cut -f2 | xargs -I{} du -sh {} - Yes it is in /var, just not in /var/log
Let us know what filled it up. mdgm wrote: Yes it is in /var, just not in /var/log
Let us know what filled it up.
So this particular ReadyNAS is running as a Network Video Recorder (Not NETGEAR's prohibitively expensive one). All the actual video gets deposited into /data/NVR/Video/*.* so not problem there. However, the NVR Database (MongoDB) resides in '/var/lib/nvr/db/' and '/var/lib/nvr/db/journal'.
So my dilemma now is what do I do? Can I somehow move the database somewhere else where there is more room? Can the rootfs be enlarged to say 8GB's from 4GB's. I mean this database is only going to get bigger over time, and now that I'm at 99%, there is no more room for it to grow.
Anyone got any ideas?
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