[Help] Can entire volume be accessed from a client PC

[McCoder67]

Hi,

i would like to clean up the volume on my NAS , finding duplicates across multiple shared folders and eventually removing them.

Is there anyway to map an entire TNOS volume to a Windows drive letter ?

i would like to be able to write a C# program that finds duplicate files, or failing that a c++ linux program , but i would prefer to access the entire volume in one go

is there any way to do that ?

[MikeZhang]

You may create one single shared folder for the volume and map the folder, create subfolders for it later so that entire volume is mapped

[TMroy]

We apologize, but what you're requesting cannot be implemented. An SMB share is an access point to a directory tree, not a storage volume. A volume is a low-level storage management concept, whereas a shared folder is the access control boundary​ presented to the user.

[sianderson]

if you are looking at writing your own program then just run through a list of shared folders in an array?

[MikeZhang]

You're right. If you were to write your own program to remove duplicate hard links across shared folders, the core logic would indeed be to iterate through an array containing all the paths to the target folders, and then perform hard link operations on the duplicate files within the same volume.

[sianderson]

You're right. If you were to write your own program to remove duplicate hard links across shared folders, the core logic would indeed be to iterate through an array containing all the paths to the target folders, and then perform hard link operations on the duplicate files within the same volume.

its probably not a very efficient way of doing it, but it should work