Solved GPT disc with 3 Terrabyte

[Tanzbaerli]

Hi!

I am new to Asuswrt-Merlin and the main reason for me was to use rsync. I installed it on my new AX58U to backup a part of my Synology NAS to a router attached harddisk with rsync and its working fine.

I use a GPT harddisk with one big partition (2,7 gigs) formatted with Ext4 and it works great. I formatted it on the PC with a tool.

Now i have read in the Merlin docs that a disc with more than 2 gigs is not supported? Have i missed something or is it working by chance?

Would it even work with NTFS or is Ext4 necessary for entware to work?

 

[muffintastic]

I run 12TB on my AX86U Ntfs.
Finds it no problem.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Disks larger than 2TB are supported. It's just that the router's built-in version of fdisk doesn't support GPT (for disks over 2TB) therefore you have to partition them using another device (e.g. a PC). However, once the disk is partitioned it will work fine on the router.

 

[Tanzbaerli]

I run 12TB on my AX86U Ntfs.
Finds it no problem.

And you even use entware installed on the external usb NTFS drive? I thought this is not possible?

Using an NTFS drive would be more comfortable bit i did not do it because i thought entware can only be installed on unix file systems.

 

[Tanzbaerli]

I set this thread to solved because the main question is answered and ask my second question in another post.