BobCochran
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Hi,
My friend had a 1 Tb NTFS disk which contains about 500 Gb of photos, all put on the drive while that was installed on her old Windows XP (Service Pack 3+) computer. The hard drive is a fairly new Western Digital "Green". She takes a lot of photos, so I pulled this disk from the Windows machine and installed it on my new FreeNAS 8.0.3-p1 box. The idea is to centralize her photo storage to a FreeNAS box. I decided to import the disk as an NTFS volume. In the "View All Volumes" pane of the GUI, this volume shows up with a health of "UNKNOWN", the serial number does not show, but the amount of space used on the disk and the amount of free space shows up fine. I named the volume ddrv so it shows as /mnt/ddrv. I am unable to assign ownership and permissions to it. I tried to make this volume an NFS share so that my friend can read the disk, but when I try to select a volume for NFS shares, /mnt/ddrv does not show up in the browse list of available volumes.
I'm wondering if the solution is pretty simple. Maybe I should export this disk and then re-import it as a CIFS share? Or perhaps I can just make it a CIFS share directly?
I don't understand why I can't get a report on the drive's health state -- the "unknown" indication bothers me. Also I can't get the serial number. Could the drive be dead, even though FreeNAS can get information about the space usage on it?
Thanks
Bob
My friend had a 1 Tb NTFS disk which contains about 500 Gb of photos, all put on the drive while that was installed on her old Windows XP (Service Pack 3+) computer. The hard drive is a fairly new Western Digital "Green". She takes a lot of photos, so I pulled this disk from the Windows machine and installed it on my new FreeNAS 8.0.3-p1 box. The idea is to centralize her photo storage to a FreeNAS box. I decided to import the disk as an NTFS volume. In the "View All Volumes" pane of the GUI, this volume shows up with a health of "UNKNOWN", the serial number does not show, but the amount of space used on the disk and the amount of free space shows up fine. I named the volume ddrv so it shows as /mnt/ddrv. I am unable to assign ownership and permissions to it. I tried to make this volume an NFS share so that my friend can read the disk, but when I try to select a volume for NFS shares, /mnt/ddrv does not show up in the browse list of available volumes.
I'm wondering if the solution is pretty simple. Maybe I should export this disk and then re-import it as a CIFS share? Or perhaps I can just make it a CIFS share directly?
I don't understand why I can't get a report on the drive's health state -- the "unknown" indication bothers me. Also I can't get the serial number. Could the drive be dead, even though FreeNAS can get information about the space usage on it?
Thanks
Bob
