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I strongly recommend that TerraMaster create a page dedicated to showing screenshots of what various settings are expected when the TNAS is working as expected. This will help us greatly in determining if we have set up the device correctly, or if we need to make adjustments.

In this particular case, I am trying to determine if the accidental ingestion of the 2GB bootloader a formatted drive that previously contained the TOS 4, was discovered, and used in the configuration and formatting process of the new F4-424 Pro system I just purchased. The MD9 volume is showing as 1.9 GB with a little over 100K free, and the other OS related volumes are 7.9GB which seems more normal. Volume 1 is the actual available drive space of the RAID.

Can you please connect via SSH to a TNAS F4-424 that was configured using best practices and post the results of the command df -h? That will help me determine if my TNAS is configured correctly.

I went through the process again of removing all partitions from all drives. This time, I the process by starting the TNAS with ZERO Hard Drives installed. When it stated that no hard drives were detected, I inserted ONE drive only. This detected the drive, and after it performed its test and showed a status of Good, I clicked next and the system allowed me to point to the 5.x installer file (ends in .ins) and it laid out the OS as I would imagine it would. This the results of the command: df -h.



Can someone tell me why the TNAS appears to misbehave depending on whatever choice it is making?
Will Terra-master please present to us what it sees and ask us what we would like for it to keep BEFORE completing and finalizing the configuration process?

NOTE: I have added a second drive and the TNAS has kept the sizes of each partition as listed in the picture above, while it is building the second drive into the RAID. If the formatting of the partitions and volumes changes when I add the other disks, I will update this thread.

Thank you for your advice.
In TOS 6/5.1/5.0 a complete configuration should contains at least four partitions:
300M system boot
8G md9 system partition
2G md8 swap partition
md0 data partitions

The only difference on TOS 4 is, the md9 partition only 1.9G. other partitions remain unchanged.