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I can't delete the "Home Folder" on my ReadyNas OS 6.10.3
Hello at all, in my ReadyNas OS 6.10.3 I would like to completely remove the "Home Folder" but I can't. I have already read this thread https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS-in-Business/Deleting-old-home-directories/td-p/... on the forum, but the command "btrfs" is not recognized and therefore I cannot use the indications of that thread. I am in the same condition as that thread. I have some folders of the domain to which I was previously connected and then I have the folders of the local user "admin" and "test". Obviously I have disabled SMB on the Home Folder so that it doesn't see it as a share ...
Ok all the folders are empty but I don't like seeing them in the management interface. I entered SSH as an admin user, to try to delete those folders via shell command line (rm * -f -r) but I can't because it always gives me "Operation not permitted". Do I have to resign myself to keeping the "Home Folder" or is there a possibility for its removal? Thank you. Bob
Re: I can't delete the "Home Folder" on my ReadyNas OS 6.10.3
You show in your signature that you have an NV+V2, which does not run OS6 nor use BTRFS. Please confirm which NAS this is on.
Assuming you also have a newer NAS you just haven't added to your signature, you have to use root credentials, not admin, in SSH. The root password is the same as your admin password.
Do I have to resign myself to keeping the "Home Folder" or is there a possibility for its removal?
I suggest leaving it. It might be possible to delete it with ssh, but that would likely have side effects - since the application software assumes it is there.
Re: I can't delete the "Home Folder" on my ReadyNas OS 6.10.3
You show in your signature that you have an NV+V2, which does not run OS6 nor use BTRFS. Please confirm which NAS this is on.
Assuming you also have a newer NAS you just haven't added to your signature, you have to use root credentials, not admin, in SSH. The root password is the same as your admin password.
Re: I can't delete the "Home Folder" on my ReadyNas OS 6.10.3
Hi, my system is ReadyNas Pro 4 (RNDP4000). Ok, I need to use the ssh session with the "root" administrative user. Now with the root user I can use the btrfs command and then I finally deleted all the sub-folders of the Home folder. What happens if I also delete the Home folder?
Re: I can't delete the "Home Folder" on my ReadyNas OS 6.10.3
Hi, just one last question.
I realized that the folders of the local user, under the "Home Folder" are still created. In my case I use only one user called "veeam-account" and if I delete this folder, it is then recreated. The SMB service on the share Home Folder is disabled but the system still creates a folder for each local user present and used. It is not important but I was wondering if I could disable the creation of the home folder of the local user used.Thank you. Bob
but I was wondering if I could disable the creation of the home folder of the local user used.
I don't think you can. But it shouldn't possible to put anything into that folder, unless you are using NAS admin credentials to access the full data volume with SMB.
Re: I can't delete the "Home Folder" on my ReadyNas OS 6.10.3
In the old RAIDiator firmware, you could. But in OS6, you can't. I suspect that's because of the dependency of things like Time Machine backups on the existance of a Home folder.
