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Error making EXT3 filesystem on the USB device
Like every 6 monthes, I wanted to back up a share on an external drive and followed my usual procedure: plug a USB drive on my NVX, format the drive (EXT3) and launch the job. Surprisingly, the NVX...
I am currently working with a NVX and having issue formatting an external disk for backup. Everything I have read seems to indicate that firmware 4.2.24 or later should have resolved that issue, but I am running 4.2.27 and can't format an external disk as ext3 or ext4. When I run a format command from the CLI I get the following:
Any ideas on how to resolve this error? I have tried the apt-get commands listed earlier in this thread, but they tell me I am already running the latest version.
NAS:~# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdd1
mke2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
/dev/sdd1 contains a vfat file system
Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
Creating filesystem with 79083970 4k blocks and 4943872 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 5fdedf9b-460b-4615-959d-509742835889
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968
Allocating group tables: Floating point exception
NAS:~#
Any ideas on how to resolve this error? I have tried the apt-get commands listed earlier in this thread, but they tell me I am already running the latest version.
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