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AMRivlin
Mar 20, 2013Apprentice
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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- super_poussinVirtuosoperhaps a symlink ?
you move the database somewhere with space in /data/xxxx then to a symling to the original place - mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee RetiredOr does the NVR software have a configuration file allowing you to specify the location to store the DB so you could specify a path e.g. /data/NVR/database
- ATCISTutor
super-poussin wrote: perhaps a symlink ?
you move the database somewhere with space in /data/xxxx then to a symling to the original place
Yeah I was kind'a thinking the same thing. Okay now I have to learn how to do that in Linux. A Google'ing I go, a Google'ing I go, high ho the dairy'o a Google'ing I go!
:google:
Oh and by the way, many thanks to super-poussin for these:find {/path/to/directory} -type f -size +{file-size-in-kb}k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }'find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 du -s | sort -n | tail -10 | cut -f2 | xargs -I{} du -sh {}
I didn't use them this time but I'm sure I will in the future. . . - super_poussinVirtuoso
mkdir -p /data/nvr/lib/nvr/db/
mv /var/lib/nvr/db/* /data/nvr/lib/nvr/db/
rm -r /var/lib/nvr
ln -s /data/nvr/lib/nvr /var/lib/
ps : make a ls -al /var/lib to check ownaer and rights you have on nvr directory to apply them again - ATCISTutorThanks again to all of you that replied with helpful suggestions. :worship: The command 'df' now shows:
root@ReadyNAS-U4:/# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 4192192 957856 2577672 28% /
tmpfs 10240 4 10236 1% /dev
/dev/md0 4192192 957856 2577672 28% /
tmpfs 2021468 0 2021468 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 2021468 4540 2016928 1% /run
tmpfs 2021468 0 2021468 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 2021468 0 2021468 0% /media
/dev/md127 2915731968 869288756 1931342132 32% /data
/dev/md127 2915731968 869288756 1931342132 32% /home
/dev/md127 2915731968 869288756 1931342132 32% /apps
So I went from a 'rootfs' at 99% down to 28%. So that I might get a better idea as to what is normal, I'd like to hear some feedback to as to what some of you other folks running OS6 have for 'rootfs' percent of utilization.
Cheers! - mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee Retired28% is fine. I have a system that isn't doing much at the moment which has an OS partition which is 15% full.
- spirit11AspirantI am having ReadyNAS 2100 and i have 4 HDD. 2 - 2TB in bay1 and bay2. 2-1TB in bay3 and bay4.
From the UI, i can see only two 2TB HDD from system -> Volumes.
Please look at my "cat /proc/mdstat"
Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md126 : active raid5 sda3[0] sdd3[3] sdc3[2] sdb3[1]
2915731968 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU]
md127 : active raid1 sda4[0] sdb4[1]
976622784 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
md1 : active raid6 sda2[0] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] sdb2[1]
1047936 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU]
md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1]
4192192 blocks super 1.2 [4/4] [UUUU]
unused devices: <none>
and "df -h"
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 4.0G 786M 2.6G 23% /
tmpfs 10M 4.0K 10M 1% /dev
/dev/md0 4.0G 786M 2.6G 23% /
tmpfs 494M 0 494M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 494M 5.9M 488M 2% /run
tmpfs 494M 0 494M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 494M 0 494M 0% /media
/dev/md126 3.7T 829G 2.7T 24% /data
/dev/md126 3.7T 829G 2.7T 24% /home
/dev/md126 3.7T 829G 2.7T 24% /apps
Please help me how i can recover the 2 - 1TB disk in the UI. - noxiusAspirantHey,
can anybody tell me how to downgrade from 6.0.8 to "old" 4 firmware, since my system is not running how it should.... (web interface is crashing very often and saying is offline... or plex is crashing after 3 min and is not reachable.....I did already twice reset but nothing helped...) I couldn´t find any deb file nor the version with usb is working since i cant run the exe file (says always I´m missing some files)....
any ideas?
thanks - mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee RetiredPM'd you a link. Note downgrading requires a factory reset.
- wliTutorI have a ultra 4, will os6 improve performance? Thanks.
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