Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Tino Schwarze wrote at about 15:56:22 +0200 on Tuesday, April 7, 2009: > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 09:44:48AM -0400, David Williams wrote: > > > The drive is supposed to be a NAS drive, in that it is connected > directly to > > > my router. Hoping that someone else has this kind of drive and has come > up > > > with a solution to this problem. So far I have not been able to see how > I > > > can reformat it :( There is a web interface for the drive but even with > > > that there doesn't appear to be a way to re-format the thing. Perhaps > this > > > is not something that can be done, or that WD want people doing, which is > > > understandable. > > > > > > I mount the drive as follows: > > > > > > //192.168.15.6/public /backups cifs rw, > > > username=user,password=passwd,uid=backuppc,gid=backuppc 0 0 > > > > Can you mount it via NFS? But I suppose, the cifs implementation of the > > drive (some kind of Windows CE?) does not support hardlinks? > cifs is SAMBA and doesn't support hardlinks (at least in my experience).
cifs is "supposed" to be different from smbfs in offering unix extensions that should include hardlinks. Here's a 5-year old article about it: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/1656. I don't know if it actually works yet or if enabling the unix extensions on a worldbook is possible or easier than nfs, though. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
