We Saw a Chicken …

Much as I like my NSLU2, it has a serious problem when it loses power; its share information often goes kablooey. There’s a not very elegant way of fixing this.

Say, f’rinstance, you had a share called Files on Disk 2. Sometimes you’ll find that this has gone, or migrated to the wrong disk, and there’s invariably a share called Files~1, usually on Disk 1. To fix this:

• Delete the Files~1 share.
• If you have a Files share and it’s inaccessible through the normal methods, delete that.
• Recreate the Files share on Disk 2. Do not change the location, unless you’d put it somewhere strange to start off with.

Your share should be back. I find that it sometimes changes the user permissions, so you may have to fiddle with ownership and group membership. But this seems to work for me.