NASLite Network Attached Storage

This is a Seagate 3TB NAS drive.

Installs NL2 fine to this drive, enter licence, activate, format disk-0, boots and runs fine.

But the NL2 format utility only formats about 5000 inode blocks, and so the total available space is reported as about 700GB.

What happened to the rest?

This was a fresh drive - brand new - I learned my lesson about drives with previous partitions on them in another thread, but NL2 seems to be fighting me again.

EDIT: Puppy Linux 4.3.1 sees all 2.7TB of the drive, but will not allow me to delete the NASLite partition - PL crashes when I try to use GParted to get rid of it.

EDIT: OK, I have just rebooted the CD-ROM of NL2, and the install utitlity sees the drive as a SCSI with a capactiy of 2.9TB. I therefore select option 1, to install NL2 to this drive, and make the rest of the space available for storage. Sounds about right. But once rebooted, licence added, activated and disk-0 mounted, space is 700GB.

I don't understand....

The install clearly sees it as a 2.9TB drive, but once installed, NL2 refuses to talk to it - something wrong with the NL format utitlity, me thinks....

I have read someone else have the same kind of problems with 3TB drives but they were WD drives... Search on the forum, the messages are less than 2 months old.

Robby

You are right - I found a thread here:

viewtopic.php?f=22&t=3824&p=20385&hilit=3TB#p20385

...reading...

The thread above seems to think that a USB boot might be a better idea, so that is well worth trying out.

I have had issues with USB boots though - the E350N board can boot from USB - I have Windows and Puppy Linux boot USB sticks, but when I tried to make a NL2 boot USB drive, the process completes fine with all the trimmings such as "Making USB bootable...[DONE]" knid of message(not verbatim), but when you try to boot from it, the PC refuses to see it, and keeps coming up with "Missing operating system" cos it can't find anything to boot from.

YES - BIOS set to attempt booting from USB, I even set it to try to boot USB devices first - still fails to boot NL2, but WILL boot those other systems like a Win7 USB install, and Puppy.

I will try again with a couple of different USB drives - I know they are not all built equal...