Share NTFS drive, don't want to format

HDmaniac · 23. August 2016

Okay, I'll keep it short and sweet.

I have a 3TB HDD with loads and loads of data which I can't lose, I've plugged it in via USB and when I go to Storage>File Systems in the WebGUI, to add the drive it wants me to format the drive to EXT4 before I can mount it and only allows me 746GiB.

Basically I want to mount and share my 3TB NTFS drive as is across the network SMB (and FTP) without losing data nor storage space.

Any and all help is apprecaited.

Thanks in advance.

raulfg3 · 24. August 2016

NTFS is recommended in N4F only in read only mode to copy data to internal Ext4 Disk.

Please meditate what you need, if NTFS is a must have for you, use your USB Disk in your windows PC not in a NAS.

If you want a NAS , then you need to use ext4 disk and must be internal (Sata) Disk, not USB.

ryecoaaron · 24. August 2016

You can use ntfs in read/write but I wouldn't do for a long time. If you only copy of your files is on that disk, you have other issues as well.

abzstrak · 18. September 2016

nope, format it.

or buy a second drive to use.

Any other bastardization you come up with will likely cost you stability and, therefore, your data.

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