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wipe and restore just / and not /data
Okay, I get that Netgear doesn't support this senerio, but all I want to do is wipe and reinstall the OS on the NAS. I do not want to wipe any data volume. This really shouldn't be all that hard, b...
You'd have to restore the partition to every disk, since the OS partition is mirrored on every disk. You'd also need to update the clonezilla copy every time you changed the NAS configuration.
Good to know about the partition being on all disks.
But that brings up so many questions for me ...
Are those partitions not in some sort of raid set? If not, how are they kept up-to-date among each other? Again if not, how does the boot loader decide which one boot off of? The NAS couldn't survive a disk failure if it was booted to a non-raided / and the dirive did.
Cheers.Peet
peet1 wrote:
Good to know about the partition being on all disks.
But that brings up so many questions for me ...
Are those partitions not in some sort of raid set? If not, how are they kept up-to-date among each other? Again if not, how does the boot loader decide which one boot off of? The NAS couldn't survive a disk failure if it was booted to a non-raided / and the dirive did.
The OS array is raid-1 - with every disk mirroring what is written to disk 1. I believe the boot loader (like most) as a built in sequence, and boots from the first disk it sees - usually disk 1 of course. That's why when disk 1 fails you need to sometimes remove it to get the system to boot.
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