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johnflux
Oct 27, 2012Aspirant
Restoring original image
I ssh'ed into my NV+ v2 and screwed it up by upgrading the distro. (Yeah I'm an idiot I know). I'm trying to now restore it back to how it was. Frontview doesn't work, but I still have ssh. I h...
mdgm-ntgr
Oct 29, 2012NETGEAR Employee Retired
Thanks for posting your steps
2. Before the umount /c you'd have to stop or kill any services that use it.
5. As what you're doing is wiping the OS a normal shutdown wouldn't be possible. One of the reasons why having the volume unmounted would probably be a good idea.
That is a good suggestion. You do need to be aware though that the --no-preserve-root and --one-file-system options are available on x86 ReadyNAS and ARM ReadyNAS but not on Sparc ReadyNAS. You can see what options are available for rm on your system by doing a "rm --help"
I'll need to look into this some more, maybe in a few weeks.
2. Before the umount /c you'd have to stop or kill any services that use it.
5. As what you're doing is wiping the OS a normal shutdown wouldn't be possible. One of the reasons why having the volume unmounted would probably be a good idea.
That is a good suggestion. You do need to be aware though that the --no-preserve-root and --one-file-system options are available on x86 ReadyNAS and ARM ReadyNAS but not on Sparc ReadyNAS. You can see what options are available for rm on your system by doing a "rm --help"
I'll need to look into this some more, maybe in a few weeks.
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