Hi All,

 

I have an external usb drive that I used for all my divx files and would like to connect it to the unraid tower to transfer them over to the array. Is this possible? I know I can go through the network, but I figure it will go faster this way.

 

Thanks for any advice,

 

DK

Hi,

 

Have a look at this in the wiki: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mounting_an_external_USB_drive_having_an_existing_NTFS_file_system_in_READ/WRITE_mode_to_transport_files_from/to_unRaid_server

 

I do this myself and it works a treat!

 

 

Yes. Just mount it.

 

I've done something similar and achieved it by doing the following.

 

Telnet into unraid

Check dev directory

dir /dev/sd*

Plug the device in,

Check dev directory again

dir /dev/sd*

should be a new device appear in there.

Create a mount point

mkdir /mnt/tmp

then

mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/tmp

where /dev/sdd1 is the new device created in the dev dir. There will usually be two entries created. Use the numeric one.

 

Then that should mount the drive in the /mnt/tmp dir.  You might have to tweek the mount settings if the file format is not recognized like adding -t vfat

 

Good luck

or... download and install unmenu.  It has the ability to mount and share USB drives built in.

 

See this post: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2595.0

 

And here in the wiki: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Add_Ons#UnMENU

 

Joe L.

or... download and install unmenu.  It has the ability to mount and share USB drives built in.

 

See this post: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2595.0

 

And here in the wiki: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Add_Ons#UnMENU

 

Joe L.

 

Many thanks Joe, worked like a charm!

 

Thanks for all the replies everyone.