Help needed after installing 2nd SSD into DNS-320L

[Gary Ng]

Hi

I have installed and used Alt-F on my old DNS-320L for the past one month, and it has been successful and easy to use.

Originally I only install one 1TB SSD as I wanted to make sure the whole system was stable before I buy another SSD. The SSD (sda) was formatted as "One big filesystem per disk", ext3 

Today, I bought a second identical 1TB SSD (sdb) and installed it and formatted it also as "One big filesystem per disk", ext3 

I would like to request help for the following:

1) On sda, the Users and Public folders were created automatically.
Can sdb also create the Users and Public folders automatically? Or do I have to manually create it?

2) When I create a new user, the system automatically creates an account folder in sda/Users.
Can I set the user to create an account folder in sdb/Users automatically?

3) If I select both disks (sda and sdb) in Disk Wizard, and format as "Merge all disks (JBOD)", will my data in sda be lost?

Would appreciate any help with the above. Thanks 

[Roberto Ribes]

Hi! I didn't test it yet because I'm thinking if buy or not a a second hard drive.

The idea is to buy a SSD drive, and create a new big filesystem for that. Use the old HDD to download torrents and the SSD (RW folders for all users) to share the downloaded torrents and to use DLNA (you can config the folder to share).

The question is, are SMART and FSCK working fine with SSD drives?

[Joao Cardoso]

On Monday, February 20, 2023 at 9:19:08 PM UTC boplay...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi

I have installed and used Alt-F on my old DNS-320L for the past one month, and it has been successful and easy to use.

Originally I only install one 1TB SSD as I wanted to make sure the whole system was stable before I buy another SSD. The SSD (sda) was formatted as "One big filesystem per disk", ext3 

Today, I bought a second identical 1TB SSD (sdb) and installed it and formatted it also as "One big filesystem per disk", ext3 

I would like to request help for the following:

1) On sda, the Users and Public folders were created automatically.
Can sdb also create the Users and Public folders automatically?

No, you have to create it (Public) manually. Look at the Setup->Folders permissions settings for the existing Public folder(s). Probably you will have to use different names, the webUI might get confused.

And Users is a special name, it gets linked to /home, so a user can't have two home folders. 

Or do I have to manually create it?

2) When I create a new user, the system automatically creates an account folder in sda/Users.
Can I set the user to create an account folder in sdb/Users automatically?

No, either sda/Users or sdb/Users (actually, /mnt/sda(b)/Users 

3) If I select both disks (sda and sdb) in Disk Wizard, and format as "Merge all disks (JBOD)", will my data in sda be lost?

 

YES! on both disks. You will be warned of that.

What is merged is the sda/sdb disks into a new (virtual) one, md0, disks contents will be obliterated. All Disk Wizard operations are destructive, as it will re-partition disks and create new filesystems. 

[Joao Cardoso]

On Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 7:33:50 AM UTC experi...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi! I didn't test it yet because I'm thinking if buy or not a a second hard drive.

The idea is to buy a SSD drive, and create a new big filesystem for that. Use the old HDD to download torrents and the SSD (RW folders for all users) to share the downloaded torrents and to use DLNA (you can config the folder to share).

The question is, are SMART and FSCK working fine with SSD drives?

 

fsck yes, SMART probably no. To be accurate, SMART will work from the command line, but the webUI might not be able to parse its output, it might depends on the SSD manufacturer.