HI. I'm just setting up Unraid for the first time. I'm trying to mount an unassigned disk that is formatted as ext4. The disk has files I want to copy over to the new shares I've set up. I want to do something like this:mount -r -t ext4 /dev/sdb /mnt/imported_files, then transfer over with midnight commander.

Does Unraid recognize ext4? I hope it does. I just need it to copy over my files.

Thanks.

 

Well maybe it's not possible, the more I search the forums. I"m gonna have to mount it via esata on an ubuntu machine and send it over the wired network.

Okay, I'm getting about 18 MB. This is gonna take a while...

There is only 1 or 2 release candidates/betas of unRAID that had ext4 support built in, but they were quickly deprecated and removed [4.5.8-beta ?] to alleviate headaches with some community plugins in the eventual 4.6 release.

 

Unfortunately the next release to possibly support the filesystem type of ext3 and ext4 outside the array is 5.0 beta 3, which has an unknown release date and time, other than sometime soon (1 month ?)

Unfortunately the next release to possibly support the filesystem type of ext3 and ext4 outside the array is 5.0 beta 3, which has an unknown release date and time, other than sometime soon (1 month ?)

 

Yesterday, I mounted an ext3 drive as ext2 and wrote 750GB to it -- as long as the ext3 drive was cleanly unmounted, it doesn't seem to matter if you mount ext3 as ext2;

 

http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html

 

"Ext3 is a journaling filesystem developed by Stephen Tweedie. It is compatible to ext2 filesystems; actually you can look at it as an ext2 filesystem with a journal file. The journaling capability means no more waiting for fsck's or worrying about metadata corruption. What is most noticeable is that you can switch back and forth between ext2 and ext3 on a partition without any problem: it is just a matter of giving the mount command the right filesystem type."

 

I used the command

 

mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk/750

 

(after first doing a mkdir /mnt/disk/750 )

 

to mount an ext3 drive and transfer data to and fro.