The drive is supposed to be a NAS drive, in that it is connected directly to
my router. Hoping that someone else has this kind of drive and has come up
with a solution to this problem. So far I have not been able to see how I
can reformat it :( There is a web interface for the drive but even with
that there doesn't appear to be a way to re-format the thing. Perhaps this
is not something that can be done, or that WD want people doing, which is
understandable.
I mount the drive as follows:
//192.168.15.6/public /backups cifs rw,
username=user,password=passwd,uid=backuppc,gid=backuppc 0 0
____________________________________________________
David Williams
-----Original Message-----
From: Tino Schwarze [mailto:backuppc.lists AT tisc DOT de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 9:24 AM
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 08:32:33AM -0400, David Williams wrote:
> So, the workbook drive that I have cannot create hard links L so this
means
> I can no longer use this drive for doing backups, since the hardlink check
> will stop this. Is the hardlink issue related to the drive itself, or is
it
> related to the fact that it is formatted to NTFS format ?
NTFS does support hardlinks. (But thats a now so well-known feature.) So
it might depend on how you mount the drive.
> Is there a way to format this drive so that it can create hardlinks
(ext3?)
> and can be used for backups again ? It's a 1TB drive and I'd hate to have
> to buy another drive.
I'm not sure whether you can reformat it. If it's just USB-attached,
then yes, just go ahead. If it's some sort of NAS, it depends on the
device.
You could always create some huge container file and create an ext3
filesystem within that. Performance won't be great, but it'll work.
HTH,
Tino.
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