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« on: August 06, 2007, 10:33:40 AM »
Can someone confirm that i can format my external USB-drive with FAT and not EXT2/3 and it will work with OpenWRT? No hitches? The reason for this is that i want to be able to use with my windows-machine as well.
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« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2007, 11:02:04 AM »

Yes it will work with fat32.

It will be a little slower than ext2, but it will work.

Another approach could be to install ext2/3 drivers on your PC.
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« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2007, 13:37:50 PM »
Yes, i have tried that but i am experiencing problems like if i connect the drive to my xp-machine and copy some files to it, they disappear again when i reconnect it to my router. I have used two different drivers and same error.

Im starting to suspect my disc to be the bad guy though. Sometimes i get an error message something like "Cant copy file because the filesystem i broken"
I can copy files to it but i cant create folders. After some reconnects it works again...very weird. Sometimes it says that the disc is full although i have half the capacity free. If i check it with Partition Magic it shows that half my disc has ReiserFS as filesystem. Dont even know what that is.

 Any ideas?

Thank you for a great site, by the way.
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« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2007, 14:46:54 PM »

Sounds a bit like a bad filesystem.

Did you try to fix the filesystem....with e2fschk in linux or some other tool?

ReiserFS is a filesystem, just like NTFS, FAT32, ext2/3 and so on....
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« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2007, 14:55:54 PM »
hmm..no i havent. Dont even know what it is actually. But i will sure read up on it if you think it may help.
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« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2007, 07:03:53 AM »
I ran e2fschk yesterday. Took 3 hours  Shocked A lot of errors were found but the problems were still there afterwards. With a small change. When connected to xp i transfer files to the disk. I disconnect the disk and connect it to my router and use samba to check the files. Most of the transferred files are missing. Some are there. I disconnect the disc again and connect it to xp. All files visible again. Weird.
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« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2007, 07:36:16 AM »

Sure sounds odd....
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« Reply #7 on: August 07, 2007, 11:40:32 AM »
I might be up on a cloud here...but do Samba and/or Openwrt need to "update" itself somehow to see the new files? I have tried to restart samba itself but that didnt help.
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