Hello All.
How to check file system type AND change it in volume?
The file system type was not proposed when creating a volume. Why?
What is the default FS type?
How to check which file system is currently used?
Is it possible to change the FS type without data loss?
I use RAID 1 (mirror) with two drives.
QNAP TS-453B mini
QTS 4.4.1.
Thank you.
1. FS: How to check file system type AND change it in volume? (QNAP TS-453B mini)
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Re: 1. FS: How to check file system type AND change it in volume? (QNAP TS-453B mini)
fs doesnt matter ..as you are using file storage (smb,nfs,afp) not block storage
if you want block storage use iscsi
if you want block storage use iscsi
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Re: 1. FS: How to check file system type AND change it in volume? (QNAP TS-453B mini)
I'm sorry, your answer is not clear.
Any file storage uses a file system. It could be ext4, NTFS, etc.
Which file system does NAS QNAP use?
How to check FS type?
Any file storage uses a file system. It could be ext4, NTFS, etc.
Which file system does NAS QNAP use?
How to check FS type?
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Re: 1. FS: How to check file system type AND change it in volume? (QNAP TS-453B mini)
type in
to find out the file systems for your mounted devices ... not sure what you will gain from it though .. because you are not dealing with those directly
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mount | grep "^/dev"
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Re: 1. FS: How to check file system type AND change it in volume? (QNAP TS-453B mini)
Thanks, dolbyman. I already knew the answer, but was curious to see it identified by the system:
To the OP:
Not in the general case. The filesystem determines the physical layout of the data on storage, which is set when you format the volume. So, to change to a different filesytem, you'd have to completely reformat the volume. Some exceptions exist; you can upgrade from ext2 to ext3 without losing data. That was by design, as ext3 was created by adding journalling to ext2. But those exceptions are rare.
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[~] # mount | grep "^/dev"
/dev/md9 on /mnt/HDA_ROOT type ext3 (rw,data=ordered)
/dev/mapper/cachedev1 on /share/CACHEDEV1_DATA type ext4 (rw,usrjquota=aquota.user,jqfmt=vfsv0,user_xattr,data=ordered,data_err=abort,delalloc,nopriv,nodiscard,noacl)
/dev/md13 on /mnt/ext type ext4 (rw,data=ordered,barrier=1,nodelalloc)
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Is it possible to change the FS type without data loss?
TS-230, TS-253A, both with latest stable QTS
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