**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Wed Jan 12 02:59:58 2011 Jan 12 05:22:17 hello all... got a question about drive formatting if anyone can help Jan 12 05:23:40 I am using UnSlung - can I attach an ext4 drive to that? Jan 12 05:37:56 nope Jan 12 05:42:23 ext3 only? Jan 12 05:57:40 yep. Jan 12 05:57:46 kernel's too old for ext4 Jan 12 06:00:58 and... it will only recognize the ext3 volume if it has been formatted through the web interface, correct? Jan 12 06:15:09 yep, just as the wiki says. Jan 12 06:17:09 OK - been trying to navigate my way through that. Jan 12 06:17:39 I wanted to try to get around that somehow but the alternate solutions look pretty difficult Jan 12 06:18:41 You probably need a newer firmware if that's important. Jan 12 06:19:49 do you have one that you would recommend? Jan 12 06:20:04 Unslung is, for all practical purposes, at the end of its useful life. Nice for its time, and it was pretty amazing what one could make the Linksys firmware do when it was "opened up", but there's only so far you can take it. Jan 12 06:20:25 The firmware choice would depend on what your needs are. There's a grid on the wiki somewhere. Jan 12 06:20:31 All I really wanted to do was convert my 1.5TB drive from NTFS to ext3 Jan 12 06:20:39 so my plan was: Jan 12 06:21:12 create an additional NTFS partition; backup data from partition 1 to partition 2; set up partition 1 as ext3; copy information back Jan 12 06:21:27 Why do you want it to be ext3? Jan 12 06:21:30 but if I understand correctly, by doing this outside the NSLU2 web interface, it will refuse to see ext3 Jan 12 06:21:43 because ntfs causes the NSLU2 to hang Jan 12 06:21:57 whereas from what I have read, that does not occur with ext3 Jan 12 06:22:18 Ah, so you don't really care about ext3, you just want it to work. Jan 12 06:22:25 well, yes and no Jan 12 06:22:27 You'll need a different device, then. Jan 12 06:22:40 from what I can tell, the ext3 filesystem is superior to NTFS Jan 12 06:24:03 If you want to be able to use a single large partition on the network, you'll want something modern. One of the problems with the NSLU2 is that with only 32MB of RAM, it has a real hard time running the fsck utility to check the filesystem integrity on big partitions, where "big" is some number greater than 250GB. Jan 12 06:24:14 You can " Jan 12 06:24:41 "get away" with it using ntfs, if you don't mind the occasional hang, because it can't check the filesystem integrity of NTFS at all. Jan 12 06:24:52 But ext3 will give you problems. Jan 12 06:25:17 hmm... Jan 12 06:25:27 I didn't realize it would be just as problematic with ext3 Jan 12 06:25:54 The linksys firmware was designed at a time when 80GB was a HUGE disk drive. Jan 12 06:26:17 right Jan 12 06:26:18 And since unslung uses that firmware at its core, it has the same basic limitations... Jan 12 06:27:27 Firmware such as SlugOS will remove a lot of those issues -- but you lose the web GUI. Which is great if you enjoy playing with a tiny Linux box, but if you just want a 1.5 TB drive on the network, then you'll be happier going to the local electronics emporium... Jan 12 06:28:17 yeah, except that means spending more money... and I already have the Slug Jan 12 06:28:25 so I was hoping to find a solution with that. Jan 12 06:28:48 I suppose I could give up the web GUI if the SlugOS wiki was comprehensive enough Jan 12 06:28:53 If you have no money, but time to learn, then you'll find the Slug to be a great little linux box. :) Jan 12 06:30:04 right Jan 12 06:30:24 funny, I was just reading through some Slug stuff that I googled and your name came up on Old Nabble :) Jan 12 06:31:44 On the other hand, for those with a bit of money, and no time, well, I find the Synology DS1xx systems to be pretty much the best of the best for home use. But even the DS107 (2007 model) are well over USD 100 on eBay. Jan 12 06:32:18 The Synology systems will also support optware -- the same package feeds that you install software from with Unslung. Jan 12 06:33:30 Thanks... looks like for now, I will have to just live with NTFS on the Slug Jan 12 12:33:32 trying to use nfs-server to share my slug's hard drive. followed directions here after unslinging: Jan 12 12:33:33 http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optware/Nfs-utils Jan 12 12:34:39 from a client, "showmount -e x.x.x.x" seems to work and show the exported directory, but rpcinfo -p x.x.x.x from same client only shows portmapper, status, mountd Jan 12 12:34:42 (no nfs) Jan 12 12:34:59 and mount is failing. seems like NFSd isn't really running correctly on slug Jan 12 12:42:11 oh wait, a reboot of the slug seems to have worked. lolz Jan 12 12:42:43 that' bazaar. maybe i wasn't restarting portmap/nfsd in the right order or something. Jan 12 15:03:34 Now i'm curious about getting dstat (or something else) to show me what ports are listening, connected, etc. Like a netstat -n Jan 12 15:03:40 netstat -an, rather **** ENDING LOGGING AT Thu Jan 13 02:59:58 2011