Talk:Ext3

Warranty Warning
I removed the warranty warning after considering that this is no different than formatting it for FAT32. There are no changes necessary to the firmware files, or even a need to restore the firmware. If EXT3 doesn't work for you, then you reformat the media partition for NTFS or FAT32. The OS has an EXT3 mount built right into the startup scripts, so you can't even argue that it wasn't intended to be used with EXT3. The only thing lacking is documentation, and they probably figure (like I do) that you shouldn't be using EXT3 unless you know how. --JCoug 06:45, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

EXT3
I'm trying to do but I have a problem. when I do fdisk the system answer "Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy." Have any suggestion? Thank you
 * It should have told you that the new partition would be recognized when you rebooted. Turn off the drive, reboot, then continue the steps.  --JCoug 23:47, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I succeeded, but I had to reinstall the firmware to make it function as the mkfs command gave me an error. Now it works correctly, and has greatly improved the performance of the torrent client.
 * I have transferred files with linux on virtual machine (4500 KBs) but I was faster transfer ext2ifs http://www.fs-driver.org/ (9000 KBs) The latter system occasionally does not work because they are running journaling. Know how to disable it temporarily to work always ext2ifs? RegardsRodrogo 06:52, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * To get the device to mount as ext2, you have to umount ext3 cleanly. You should be able to telnet into the device, issue a stopall command, possibly have to kill samba if it is running, then you can umount the partitions and down a poweroff to shut it down.
 * But before you go through all of that, try shutting the device off using the remote, and shutting the device off using the power off button. See if one of those two methods always umounts the drive cleanly.  That would be a lot easier than the telnet.  And there is probably a way to tell the ext2ifs to unmount cleanly too.  --JCoug 15:52, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot again. Using telnet is working correctly, provided that, then switch off on the spp, connected by USB, with the key on the front. I tried power off with remote and the front button but this does not seem to cleanly unmount the drive. Regards. Rodrogo 10:46, 1 April 2009 (UTC)