How do I partition a network hard drive?

[Mandat]

Google hasn't been able to provide me with an answer and I'm hoping that the PH collective will know.

I have just bought an LG NAS enclosure (N2R1D) and stuck in two new Seagate 500GB drives set in Raid 1 (mirroring mode). Everything works as it should but I don't know how to partition the the networks drives.

I have Arconis Disk Director 10 but cannot get it to recognise the NAS drive.

I am certain that this should be possible, particularly as I have previously partitioned a mirrored Raid array, although this was an internal array connected straight to the PC motherboard.

Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated.

[onlynik]

Surely you just connect to teh NAS via a browser and format and partition it from there.

[Mandat]

onlynik said:

Surely you just connect to teh NAS via a browser and format and partition it from there.

I can connect to the NAS via a browser and whislt I can format and set up Raid arrays, I can't find any options to partitioning of the disks. The manual contains no useful information and a Google search has not yeilded any answers either.

[GlenMH]

Mandat said:

onlynik said:

Surely you just connect to teh NAS via a browser and format and partition it from there.

I can connect to the NAS via a browser and whislt I can format and set up Raid arrays, I can't find any options to partitioning of the disks. The manual contains no useful information and a Google search has not yeilded any answers either.

That is because you don't partition network drives, you set up "shares" on them. You can then map a drive in windows to the share which then acts like a partition.

So, for example, I have a share called docs, one called media, one called downloads.

I have then mapped a drive to each of those so they act as a separate disk.

Once you have created the share on the NAS, don't forget to give yourself read and write permissions to it, otherwise you won't be able to connect to it....

[Mandat]

GlenMH said:

Mandat said:

onlynik said:

Surely you just connect to teh NAS via a browser and format and partition it from there.

I can connect to the NAS via a browser and whislt I can format and set up Raid arrays, I can't find any options to partitioning of the disks. The manual contains no useful information and a Google search has not yeilded any answers either.

That is because you don't partition network drives, you set up "shares" on them. You can then map a drive in windows to the share which then acts like a partition.

So, for example, I have a share called docs, one called media, one called downloads.

I have then mapped a drive to each of those so they act as a separate disk.

Once you have created the share on the NAS, don't forget to give yourself read and write permissions to it, otherwise you won't be able to connect to it....

Glen

That's great. Got it to work now.

Thanks very much.

[GlenMH]