NAS with 320GB HDD connected with TCP/IP or USB only shows 190GB !

[Brian McKee]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 6:06 PM, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux
<i-ubux at synass.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 11:43 -0500, Brian McKee wrote:
>  > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:44 AM, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux
>  > <i-ubux at synass.net> wrote:
>  > >
>  > >  Any advise, guidance, hints and suggestions are hot awaited. ;-)
>  > >  TIA for your help and cheers, svobi
>  >
>  > The extra space is taken up with doubled up punctuation ?? ??
>  >
>  > :-)   :-)
>
>  Hi Brian, well, I was more thinking in terms of Swiss Emmental Cheese:
>  Too much bubbles !? ;-D
>
>
>  > Sounds like a problem with the NAS cases, not Ubuntu.
>  > What are they formatted as?
>
>  That's another curious thing/question:
>  Suggested is formatting with FAT32 with its 32GB limit if I am not
>  mistaken !?
>
>  On the other hand: I would appreciate to understand more in the
>  following terms:
>  MUST it be FAT32 and why FAT32 (only) !?
>  I would tend more to ext3 if mainly used with Linux / Ubuntu !

I have no idea why they would suggest FAT32 other than a 'lowest
common denominator' approach.
Heck, even Windows people use NTFS rather than FAT32 where they can.
I'd do some reading on your NAS manuals - I don't think the problem
has much to do with Ubuntu....
Brian