NAS326 Upgrade HD and keeping old files

Nickba

Hello,

I am trying to upgrade my internal HDs on my NAS326. When I remove the internal HD and connect as external USB, I cannot access it(it shows as unformatted). It is not RAID, it is just a simple volume. Is there a way that I can connect an internal HD as external to copy the files to the new installed HD?

#NAS_July_2020

Mijzelf

Even if you configured a 'simple volume', the NAS puts a single disk raid array on it. To be able to mount that, you'll have to assemble it.

Assuming you have one internal disk, the external disk will be sdb. On a 326 the data partition is the 3th one, so that is sdb3.

Assemble the array:

su

mdadm --assemble /dev/md4 /dev/sdb3

When that succeeds, the array is either automounted, or you have to mount it manually:

mkdir /mnt/mountpoint

mount /dev/md4 /mnt/mountpoint