Making a folder appear as a volume in OS 6 GUI?

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tigerten wrote:

 

you can create volume under SSH for ReadyDATA. I would assume possible with ReadyNAS as well. 

 

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Yes. 

Netgear has a utility called rnutil. It has quite a few "personalities"

  event_push          push a system event to the UI
  get_disk_info       print a list of all attached disks and disk information
  check_ups_drv       check and possibly start network ups drivers
  rn_shutdown         shutdown readynasd and system gracefully
  rn_lcd              LCD display
  remote_access       start a remote access session for tech support
  volume_util         perform volume operations
  mkhomedir_helper    home subvolume creator for PAM
  disk_event_handler  handler for disk events
  hotplug_event       notifier for hotplug events
  md_event            notifier for MD RAID events
  start_raids         start all MD RAID arrays
  volume_schedule     start volume schedule job
  spindown_schedule   start spindown schedule job
  backup_md           backup MD RAID superblocks
  bit_rot_event       bit rot events
  firmware_update     check for firmware update
  apt_wait            Wait for an APT lock to release
  create_system_log   Create system log archive
  diagnostics         Run system diagnostics
  blink               Locate the NAS with LEDs
  bluetooth_event     Bluetooth events
  dump_sysflags       List systype flags or check if flag is set for system
  clamav_event        ClamAV events
  antivirus_scan_rootfscan antivirus in rootfs

The personality is determined by the executable file name.  For instance, /usr/bin/volume_util is a link to rnutil, and when you execute the link you can run the volume_util command set.  (you can alternatively run rnutil volume_util directly).

The volume_util commands are:

root@NAS:~# volume_util help
Usage: volume_util [-c NAME] [-c NAME D1,..,DN] [-c NAME LEVEL D1,..,DN]
                   [-c NAME LEVEL D1,..,DN KEY_FILE] [-d NAME|UUID]
                   [-x NAME|UUID] [-e] [-e TYPE] [-v NAME LEVEL D1,...,DN]
                   [-f NAME DISK] [-S DISK] [-F DISK] [-s TYPE..]
    -c  Create pool
        NAME is the desired pool name
        LEVEL is the desired RAID level (0,1,5,6,10)
        D1,..,DN is the list of disk channels to use, zero-based
          you may specify the disk by controller and channel, so
          '0,1' means chassis 0, channels 0 and 1
          '1:3,1:4' means chassis 1, channels 3 and 4
        if you do not specify any channels, all available channels will be used
        KEY_FILE is the encryption key passphrase file for encrypted volumes
    -d  Delete pool
        NAME is the desired pool name
        UUID is the UUID of the desired pool
    -x  Export pool
        NAME is the desired pool name
        UUID is the UUID of the desired pool
    -e  Expand pool
        TYPE is one of 'auto', 'expand', 'extend', or 'xraid'
        auto - automatically do all forms of expansion
        expand - expand to fill all space on all current disks (disk replacement)
        extend - extend pool to use available new disks (disk addition)
        xraid - grow pool to use available space on some current disks
          (partial disk replacement)
    -f  Flex-RAID add parity
        NAME is the desired pool name
        D1,..,DN is the list of disk channels to use, zero-based
          you may specify the disk by controller and channel, so
          '0,1' means chassis 0, channels 0 and 1
          '1:3,1:4' means chassis 1, channels 3 and 4
    -E  Flex-RAID expand
        NAME is the desired pool name
        D1,..,DN is the list of disk channels to use, zero-based
          you may specify the disk by controller and channel, so
          '0,1' means chassis 0, channels 0 and 1
          '1:3,1:4' means chassis 1, channels 3 and 4
    -v  Vdev expand pool
        NAME is the desired pool name
        LEVEL is the desired RAID level (0,1,5,6,10)
        D1,..,DN is the list of disk channels to use, zero-based
          you may specify the disk by controller and channel, so
          '0,1' means chassis 0, channels 0 and 1
          '1:3,1:4' means chassis 1, channels 3 and 4
    -S  Make a disk a hot spare
        DISK is the disk channel to use, zero-based
    -F  Format disk
        DISK is the disk channel to use, zero-based
    -r  Automatically repair degraded pools
    -O  Forcibly optimize swap array
    -s  Show volume information
        TYPE is any combination of 'disk', 'raid', 'pool', or 'enclosure'
          separated by a space so '-s disk raid' would show disks and raids

What rnutil doesn't seem to have is a mechanism to create a public share.You can create a home folder for a user account  with rnutil mkhomedir_helper - which is a specialized share, but not public.  

root@NAS:~# mkhomedir_helper

Usage: mkhomedir_helper <username>

root@NAS:~#

There possibly could be some other tool that can create a public share, but I don't know what it is.

As Sandshark says, there is a repair script that Netgear support uses that might give you more clues.

• https://gitlab.codycook.us/readynas-scripts/share_lun_ui_fix.sh

If you download it to the NAS with wget, you will need to add the --no-check-certificate  option.