What filesystem is on main/mirror disk?
Hi,
I'm wondering what filesystem the WL-700 uses on the mirror disk?
I erased and formatted it using the WL-700 disk manager.
Now I have the mirror disk here on my desk [since router is going back DOA] and tryed to see what's on it using a Knoppix5.0 boot CD as I thought it would have a Linux based filesystem on it but Knopix says it's an unknown file system and can't show anything??
Now I'm wondering what the use is of mirroring if you can't see what's on it anymore when the router or main disk fails??
Does anyone know how the disk can be read by some other operating system then the WL-700?
How to mount an external drive on a normal pc
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Originally Posted by
d3viant
It's because asus didn't actually write anything to copy files from one drive to another on the fly - they went for a software RAID-1 solution instead, which makes the partitions on both drives unreadable without the correct raid software
That is right. It gave me a clue.
I tried to mount the external drive (again) with the command:
mount /dev/sda1 /media/usb-disk
I got:
mount: onbekend soort bestanssysteem 'linux_raid_member'
which means: unknown filesystem 'linux_raid_member'
So I tried my partitioner in Suse Linux. It showed /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 with Linux native filesystem. I changed that in Linux Raid. Then it was mounted!
I could also mount it by hand with this command:
mount -t reiserfs /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk
If I don't specify -t reiserfs it won't mount (see above)
If I plug this drive in Mr. White it is still recognized correctly.
That opens possibilitities, doesn't it? I don't know whether it is necessary to change the partion type beforehand. Just give it a try.
Anyway, I could now copy some stuff on the disk at my pc, and use it when plugged in Mr. White. :)
Wow!
Marc