Harddrive setup

enli10me2 · 6. März 2016

So, I'm completely lost. I installed OMV on a blank HD on my old dell. Once everything was installed I plugged in the original HD with the Windows OS stilled installed. Everything comes up okay I can see the drives but have no idea how to wipe the Windows drive and set up a share. When i try to select a volume on a new share I'm trying to set up the drop down menu is blank. Where do i go from here?

cooldjmc · 6. März 2016

First you need to format the drive with the filesystem you want and then mount the filesystem, and after that you can create a share.
Go to File Systems then delete the windows one, aftrer that format the drive en ext4 and mount. When you have done all this steps you can create share.

subzero79 · 6. März 2016

If the disks are preformatted, go to physical disks section and wipe the disk the fast one should be ok. The in the Fs sectio click create and select the previously wipe disk.

enli10me2 · 6. März 2016

Great inputs... thanks. Does it matter what file system I use? Can I save MS Office and PDf files on a ext4 files system?

MrMister2015 · 6. März 2016

Zitat von enli10me2

Great inputs... thanks. Does it matter what file system I use? Can I save MS Office and PDf files on a ext4 files system?

Yes, you can save anything you want on that system. ext4 is just the filesystem used by OMV and is a very common and mature (as in solid) linux filesystem. You create a shared folder on OMV and just use it with the SMB/CIF services from your other pc's.

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