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USB drive capacity reduced after ext3 format
I'm trying to back up my NV+ (RND4000 v3, F/W 4.1.14) with Seagate Expansion Desktop Drive (2TB). When formatted by the NAS as ext3 it has only 563GB, while formatted as FAT32 by the NAS it's 1863GB. I can't find a reason for the massive reduction in capacity, and it's now too small to backup the NAS.
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The fastest backup is to format it as NTFS, connect it to a PC and back it up over a gigabit network.
Not sure what's going on with your formatting though. If you have ssh enabled or another linux system you could try formatting manually. I'd expect this reduction if the disk was > 2 TB, but not with a 2 TB drive.
Thanks. Reformat to NTFS took a while as quick format didn't work. Couldn't leave my laptop attached while doing the full backup over the network but it seems to be working plugged into the front USB port on the RaedyNAS. As you predicted, it's slow...
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