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dragon · 31-03-2011, 23:38

So after Trying several different Software solutions on my home server I finally settled on Centos 5.5 as it provides the Storage functionality i need (samba) + visualization.

Was copying a LOT of data from my NAS so I could both remove my 1.5TB disks and put them in the server instead (It's a lot faster) and after wasting most of the evening copying I've just remembered the NAS uses Linux software raid and either an EXT3 or EXT4 filesystem (depending on the firmware version that it was running when you formatted the drives)

So in the end I just popped the drive in the new system, it's just re-mirroring onto the other 1.5TB disk atm.

Much Faster, dunno why I didn't think about it earlier.

There is a 3GB partition I no longer need on each of the 2 1.5TB drives that is the NAS's OS but I'm not sure I can be bothered to risk doing anything with it (other than perhaps erasing the data on it because it had config.etc from the NAS)

31-03-2011, 23:38	#1
dragon Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 3,898	Kicking myself So after Trying several different Software solutions on my home server I finally settled on Centos 5.5 as it provides the Storage functionality i need (samba) + visualization. Was copying a LOT of data from my NAS so I could both remove my 1.5TB disks and put them in the server instead (It's a lot faster) and after wasting most of the evening copying I've just remembered the NAS uses Linux software raid and either an EXT3 or EXT4 filesystem (depending on the firmware version that it was running when you formatted the drives) So in the end I just popped the drive in the new system, it's just re-mirroring onto the other 1.5TB disk atm. Much Faster, dunno why I didn't think about it earlier. There is a 3GB partition I no longer need on each of the 2 1.5TB drives that is the NAS's OS but I'm not sure I can be bothered to risk doing anything with it (other than perhaps erasing the data on it because it had config.etc from the NAS)