NTFS drive, trying to share the entire drive.
I set up a folder called RecordedTV-1, which has everything in it that I want to share.
But When I try to add a share, the web UI does not populate the "Shared Folder" dropdown.
Makes sense to me because I have not told it much about that drive.
Can somebody give me The Complete Idiot's Guide?
NTFS is not intended to be used for an OMV share. Try another file system like ext4.
Which filesystem to choose for OMV NAS?
Unable to select mounted device from dropdown
Check if you have a blank in the drives volume label. This can make issues.
Be a genius instead: Don't use NTFS.
OMV is working fine with a number of filesystems. NTFS is not one of them. EXT4 is.
Don't use NTFS. Except perhaps for backups to an external drive and similar tasks.
The procedure for adding shared folders is typically like this:
Shut down the NAS
Connect a new drive to the NAS.
Start the NAS.
Add the new drive in the OMV GUI and wipe it.
Create a new filesystem on the new drive, using the OMV GUI.
Mount the new filesystem using the OMV GUI.
Only then can you create a shared folder on the drive.
If the drive already has a suitable partitioning and filesystem(s) the wipe part and creation of a new filesystem can be skipped. Hint: NTFS is NOT a suitable filesystem.
This allows you to add drives with existing data and move existing files into the shared folders later, using the command line over SSH. And perhaps the excellent file manager Midnight Commander.
If the recorded video is available over the network then it would be simple to copy/sync between the recording box and OMV. Or you might be able to tell the recording box to save directly to a share on the OMV NAS? Look for Samba/SMB/CIFS. It is like a networked version of NTFS and OMV supports it perfectly fine.
I had used NTFS 3TB hard drive for a long time and everything worked fine with OMV3.
I switched to BTRFS at some point because NTFS was too slow for me to transfer via Samba, that was the only reason why I had changed the file system.
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