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pmayes
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Sep 22, 2017

USB drive renaming

Environment is ReadyNAS 214. Firmware 6.8.0. 4*3TB drives, and 3TB+2TB USB drives attached.

 

Originally the 3TB USB drive had a DOS partition table, with a maximum partition size of 2TB. So it was formatted as 2TB+1TB. These appeared as USB_HDD_1 and USB_HDD_2, as expected. The 2TB USB drive was then USB_HDD_3.

 

For the partitions I was backing up, it was inconvenient to have the 3TB USB drive split in two, so I attached it to my main Linux machine, created a GPT partition table, and create a single 3TB partition. But now when I reattached it, it has appeared as USB_HDD_4.

 

Hardly a disaster, but my OCD character would prefer to have USB_HDD_1 and USB_HDD_2.

 

What is the best way to tidy up and create the more logical naming scheme?

 

And my current backups go to USB_HDD_3 and USB_HDD_4 - will it be necessary to delete the backups and recreate? The "Settings" button doesn't seem to have an editable selection for "Destination".

 

Thanks -- Peter

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  • Marty_M's avatar
    Marty_M
    NETGEAR Employee Retired

    Hello pmayes,

     
    I understand that you would like to find an option to re-name the USB hard drives that connects to the NAS. As of the moment there is no option to rename it but a feature request has been sent and we are just waiting if and when they will consider adding the feature to the NAS. 
     
    Regards,
    Marty_M 
    NETGEAR Community Team

    • StephenB's avatar
      StephenB
      Guru - Experienced User

      Marty_M wrote:

      a feature request has been sent and we are just waiting if and when they will consider adding the feature to the NAS. 


      This has been asked for many times, for several years now.  IMHO, it's time to get past "considering it", and actually implement it.

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