On 2020-06-21 19:40, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > On 2020-06-20 22:48, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 2020-06-21 10:15, Cameron Simpson wrote: >>> On 20Jun2020 16:28, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Fred, my objective is to use the drive as an NAS. The drive began life >>>> as a WD Mybook, it had two 2GB partitions for whatever reason and I had >>>> been using it to save NFS files etc. [...] >>> Since the ASUS will be mounting the drive and sharing the data, the ASUS >>> may require particular filesystems (I'm imagining exfat or fat32). What >>> filesystem is on the drive at present? >>> >>> Also, is it a DOS partition table or GPT? Might also be relevant. >> Thanks for beating me to this. :-) :-) >> >> FWIW, ASUS doesn't seem to keep their compatibility charts up to date. >> >> I found https://event.asus.com/2009/networks/disksupport/ but this is from 2009 and the RT-ARCH13 >> isn't listed. But the similar product RT-ARCH15 is. And it shows that ext4 is NOT supported. > ° > > When I look at the drive on this computer with I gparted I see: > > [root@Workstation-1 bobg]# gparted /dev/sdc > > WD My Book 25EE ext4 /run/media/bobg/bbdb9a5e-5003-4d4e-a18c-fb30a248 > > Perhaps I need to change the file system to vfat, gpt, or whatever samba wants? ASUS appears to be using a version of DD-WRT with their own gui, I believe the hype mentioned WRT? One reason for getting this router was to try the USB attached hard drive using an unmodified router, I always buy a router that is listed compatible with DD-WRT or preferably Tomato-USB, the latter preferred since it logs daily usage per ipaddress so I know what is hogging my b.w. allocation. I had similar, probably the same, problems withe router I've been using for the last year which I reworked for Tomato-USB, a DD-WRT related program. You probably would best be served by using ntfs or ext3. It isn't a question about what "samba" wants but what disk formats the kernel running on the router supports. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx