Hi
I have recently had my system die on me and do not have a backup of the config.
I have replaced the hardware and done a clean install, and all is working fine. However I need to know that if I mount my external usb drives to the new system whether or not the data on them will be lost. The new system recognised the drives but I am wary that when I mount them it will format them. Is this the case?
Thanks
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rebuilding system reusing existing hard drives
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Re: rebuilding system reusing existing hard drives
Please provide more info about your data disk.
are USB? <- This is not recomended for a NAS, always works better SATA disk, perhaps ypur problem come for use USB as Data disk.
are UFS or ZFS?.
etc...
are USB? <- This is not recomended for a NAS, always works better SATA disk, perhaps ypur problem come for use USB as Data disk.
are UFS or ZFS?.
etc...
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Re: rebuilding system reusing existing hard drives
I already have the USB drives and a small PC to use. I have found that if I format the drive and then mount it it works, but I do not want to format it before mounting as it already has data on it. I appreciate it is not reccomended, but " not reccomended" is not the same as will not work. Looking at the forums I am not the only one trying to use USB drives.