On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 6:03 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jul 2016 15:47:45 -0700 > John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo: > > >I'm probably pretty close, but need help figuring out the rest. > > Success! I was missing the Sharing stuff in the web-based setup utility. > > >Also, I have no idea how the disk is formatted, or even if it is > >formatted at all. > > I'd still like to know this, and before I start putting stuff on the > drive. I know that it is formatted because I can now drag and drop > files to it. I assume that Western Digital shipped the drive > unformatted, I would not assume this. Most drives are shipped formatted NTFS these days (formerly FAT32). > so that means that the Synology setup utility must have > formatted it. This may or may not be the case. If it did, it probably used some Linuxy filesystem. Either way, it is unlikely that you will be able to affect its decision; it probably only supports 1 filesystem, whatever that may be. It doesn't matter, either, as your interaction with it does not involve interacting with the file system. You interact with its network share, it takes care of the rest. > I pored through everything in the Setup utility looking > for what filesystem it used, > ... > not a word about the filesystem. Any > suggestions, short of taking the disk out of the Synology and attaching > it to my desktop computer where I can use Gparted or something? > > I believe the Synology probably supports a command line interface via SSH. There are probably options in the setup GUI to control this behavior. Then you can get access to more information and more options than the friendly GUI would offer. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
