External 4T USB drive(3 paritions) connected to the LS-QVL Quad only 1st partition recognized

[seanyang2006]

As the subject described ,I want to connect mine 4T USB drive which has 3 partitions : system(600G),data(1T) and relax(2.1T) to my LS-QVL Quad NAS , it can be recognized but only the 1st partition 600G displayed as usbdisk1 on the WebUI, i don't know why ---I also checked the /dev direcotry by ssh to LS ,there are usbdisk1 ,usbdisk1_2, usbdisk1_5,usbdisk1_6 and usbdisk_7 in it and I can mount usbdis1_6(1T) and usbdisk1_7(2.1T) , question is these 2 partition can't be displayed on the WebUI and shared access by my windows PCs in my intranet.
So, how can i make all the 3 partitions accessed via netword ? I also tried to edit smb.conf ,but it seems this file will be overwritten when restart smb service.

[davo]

Not possible, the LS will only ever be able to see the first partition of any connected USB HDD.

[seanyang2006]

Davo:

So, what do you mean not possible? I am curios that linux has recognized all the 3 partitions already , is there any possibility to share them on the intranet-- maybe by samba or even NFS? what's your source for your "impossible"  --- I mean is it a limitation by LS firmware ? I use the v1.64 firmware.

Thanks for reply and help.

[davo]

Yes it is a limitation of the firmware, the Buffalo LS can only see and mount 1 partition from a connected USB HDD.