techywarrior Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 I would like to add a non-array drive to my server to use for some plugins but I am having trouble with multiple partitions. For some reason the drive I pulled from an old Windows server is showing up as having 3 partitions. I don't have the option to reformat the drive in unMenu. How can I repartition and then reformat the drive at the console so I just have one large drive? Once done how do I set it to auto mount on reboot? (and give it a name to make it easier to track) Link to comment
itimpi Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 I would like to add a non-array drive to my server to use for some plugins but I am having trouble with multiple partitions. For some reason the drive I pulled from an old Windows server is showing up as having 3 partitions. I don't have the option to reformat the drive in unMenu. How can I repartition and then reformat the drive at the console so I just have one large drive? Once done how do I set it to auto mount on reboot? (and give it a name to make it easier to track) The easiest way to partition/format it would be to attach it to a Linux/PC/Mac system and use gparted which gives you a graphical interface for doing this. Bootable CD images are freely available for temporarily booting PC/Mac systems straight into gparted without installing anything on the hard disk. If you want to do partitioning from a telnet/console session in unRAID then you should use the 'gdisk' utility. Formatting would then be done via an appropriate variant of the 'mkfs' command. Link to comment
cirkator Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 I am going to do the same thing in a few days. Add an SSD mounted outside the arrray as my docker disk. I am going to use the gparted live usb version to boot that on my htpc and connect the ssd and format it to ext4. I dont want to detach all my harddisk connections in my server, so my htpc is way easier to work with. And when i format a disk, I only want that ONE disk running. Way to easy to f**k things up.... Then i am going to put the newly formatted ssd into my server and mount it via the SNAP plugin (for unraid v5 & for unraid v6) at boot. I am yet not quite sure how SNAP works, but i guess it will be pretty straight forward and easy to work with Link to comment
techywarrior Posted October 7, 2014 Author Share Posted October 7, 2014 If you want to do partitioning from a telnet/console session in unRAID then you should use the 'gdisk' utility. Formatting would then be done via an appropriate variant of the 'mkfs' command. Yes, this is what I want to do. The question was how? (what are the correct commands to use to not F it up) Link to comment
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