How can i get my mountusb.sh script to run on powerup and not login? Perhaps it is running on powerup but the samba server is not getting restarted correctly? I have smb stop/start at the end of my mountsub.sh script so I’m not sure what i’m doing wrong.

Used to know Unix commands but this is far away, but your blog really helped me hacking this NAS and to mount an external HD.

Really great work!

Look forward for a stable mounting procedure for NTFS drives…

Cheers!

Roger L. from Montreal

My question (and please bear with my newbie-ness)- is it conceivably possible to have lighttpd (with ffp) running off of the flash drive, in order to host a very small, simple static website 24/7, without needing to access the HDD’s? I’d like to make the flash drive serve on the public side, but limit the HDD access on the lan (private) side of things.

Possible?

I like idea presented at the beginning of this article:”Plug a 2gb USB thumb drive in the back, and run ffp, torrentwatchdog and cron scripts off it, to allow the Volume 1 and Volume 2 disks to stay spun down as much as possible.”

I try to follow this article and I add UBS hub with 3 USB sticks each 2GB. I copy ffp on it mount it at /mnt/usb and for easy access also at /mnt/HD_a2/Temp/usb. Rest two USB sticks I joined to raid (linear) using mdadm. This drive I want to use for torrent downloading (with Volume1 and Volume2 in standby mode)
first time:
mdadm –create –verbose /dev/md0 –level=linear –raid-devices=2 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1
mke2fs /dev/md0
each start up:
mdadm –assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1
mkdir /mnt/usb_raid
mount -t ext2 /dev/md0 /mnt/usb_raid/
and again for easy access also /mnt/HD_a2/Temp/usb_raid/

I also configure Transmission 1.50 to store data on /mnt/usb_raid/ see article http://www.horto.ca/?p=21 and others. And cron to update new torrent from directory /mnt/usb_raid1\BT\torrents_to_add\ each hour.
For easy to add new torrents i made link (symbolic) ln -s /mnt/usb_raid\BT\torrents_to_add\ /mnt/HD_a2\BT\

I thought that booth HDDs will be in standby almost all the time expects time when cron initialize to check new torrents or move (remove) downloaded files from USB_raid to Volume1 what should take few minutes. But reality is different. HDDs are waked more times per hour (and cron is setup to run ones an hour). I try to move also config files .transmission-daemon from Volume1 to USB with fft and I did link ln -s /mnt/usb/.transmission-daemon /mnt/HD_a2/. It didn’t help. I don’t know what else could wake HDDs up. If symlinks (/mnt/usb/.transmission-daemon or mnt/usb_raid1\BT\torrents_to_add\) activate the disk or DNS323 BitTorrent does it or something alse.

If you need any .sh files or any additional info about my configuration write to this discussion.

configuration:
DNS323, 2xHHD, Seagate Barracuda 1000GB, standard format (non-raid), FW 1.06, DNS323 BitTorrent installed, Transmission 1.50 installed, Fonz_fun plug full packege installed v0.5, USB hub 4 port Trust, USB stick 2 GB Intelligent I-stic (with ffp), 2x USB stick 2GB Pretec (RAID JBOB [linear]) for Torrent download (later 64GB USB stick)