Gargoyle Forum

Hi,

I bought a new 8TB hard drive which was shipped as NTFS wanting to use it as Gargoyle-attached storage. It's a little slow as NTFS so I thought I'd try it as ext4, but every time Gargoyle think it's successfully formatted the disk, it comes back up as NTFS again.

Can I try reformatting from ssh instead? I'm not sure what subset of Linux commands the router has available to it, and I don't have another device handy which I trust to write an ext4 partition right now.

Yes you can.
The process Gargoyle is using is: https://github.com/ericpaulbishop/gargo ... format_usb

Much better, and it's about 3x as fast now too! Thanks.

Are you using Google Chrome by any chance?
If I had to guess, your browser protected you from a “pop up” generated against a window that was not in focus. This is a legitimate part of the Gargoyle GUI, but is being caught by this check.

I’m in the process of changing how some of this works to remove this requirement.

I was, had that issue, then I switched to Edge and I got the page to submit but the reformat failed to take anyway.