I cannot remember what Synology model you have: a) If you have ARM based model - than the file system is most likely ext4 b) if you have one of the + models with intel CPU then it is likely btrfs
On the client/PC you are using it as network files system SMB/NFS depending how you mounted it. So the actual HDD file system is not visible to you. If you'd start exporting iSCSI devices then you can format them as you wish on client, due to them being block devices. If you put in the second drive and use it for redundancy (RAID 1) than the HDDs should be a) LVM raid volume b) btrfs raid volume. Tomas On Friday, July 08, 2016 06:03:11 PM John Jason Jordan 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, so that means that the Synology setup utility must have > formatted it. I pored through everything in the Setup utility looking > for what filesystem it used, but without success. I did find disk > information, including size, S.M.A.R.T. information, usage, and even > the WD serial number, but 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? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
