What else is changed in this hacked firmware? I installed this firmware and use PlugOnDevice. It is working very good now. Normally when I use Transmission it stopped downloading and the PHD is not responding any more. Although I have a WIFI connection I have to reboot the PHD and than it will start downloading again. But with this new hacked firmware I had no problems so far. Thanks.

(p.s I noticed that a lot of people have Linux skills. So for us newbies in Linux it is very important to have a good HOW TO .)

Nothing else changes, just the space in the root filesystem, which allows for PlugOnDevice and optware.
Glad it worked for you.

Bit late, yes I know. But there are no infringements, so go right ahead.

well well Chris is back
Happy new Year bro !!!!

I shout too early. This evening my download stopped. I had to disconnect the WIFI dongle and reconnect it to the PHD. After that it was working again. Do someone know what the reason for this is? Could it be the watchdog? Where can it be disabled?

I had the same problem. My transmission crashed a few times. I didn't even have watchdog installed. I think it's the NTFS partition problem as suggested by kawakinho.

Still need to gather the courage to re-partition my internal HDD to create a new ext3 partition for transmission file storage since I have lots of precious data on it at the moment

Thanks for your reply. Ok when that is the reason I also have to move about 500GB of data to another storage. But ok, it will keep us from the street)

Hi,
It's just a vague suspicion that NTFS thing...
At least the data corruption goes away, as I'm now downloading into a ext3 partition.

You guys don't need to backup/restore data, unless you want to go for a full ext3 data storage, as in viewtopic.php?f=41&t=3138&start=0
If what you want is simply a place to write data to, you can do like me:
1- shrink the main NTFS partition with gparted (I felt 50GB was ok) - be carefull, but you don't loose data
2- slide (move) the two 157MB partitions to the left
3- create a new 50GB partition and format as ext3. Make sure it is partition number 4 or you doing something wrong
4- create a small script that mounts that partition on every boot. Mine is /opt/etc/init.d/S01mount:


and I created a permanent link on /mnt/D pointing to /tmp/hdd/volumes/HDD2
(Note that I'm using optware)
Finally, I disabled the transmission watchdog and changed it's startup script (S90transmission) and the settings file (settings.json) to go to the new partition. For your case, it may be different...

You see, if I was to keep downloading into NTFS, every time the system hangs I risk losing some data (I already did several times) because the filesystem would become corrupt.

Hi Kawakinho,

Thanks for your reply. When I read your explanation it looks so easy, but I have hardly experience with Linux. I don't know how to install a script for example. What program do I need for doing this? I use PlugOnDevice. Sorry for my newbie questions, but I hope you can or want explain it. And where do I find the watchdog?
Thanks.

There's nothing to be sorry about, except the following huge post:

I'm using @frater's optware solution (viewtopic.php?f=41&t=2819&start=0).
It's a bit different from @buzzkaido's PlugOnDevice (viewtopic.php?f=41&t=2491&start=0) and oriented, perhaps, to people more accustomed to linux.
PlugOnDevice wins on simplicity and ease of use, of course...

@frater created a watchdog script to monitor transmission-daemon. It runs in cron (linux equivalent to scheduled task) every minute and every hour. The first time I stumbled upon this watchdog, it was rewriting my Transmission settings in settings.json - that's why I disabled it (made the scripts not executable), it was instructing transmission-daemon to download to the standard locations defined by @frater, as opposed to this new partition I created.
The watchdog does bring other benefits, though...
This is not applicable to you, but may be of interest to others.

I don't know whether PlugOnDevice uses such a watchdog for transmission-daemon and, if it does, whether it can be safely disabled. Perhaps @buzzkaido or others can help.
But I know that there is a possibility to edit configuration files from the program's GUI. Being that so, you need to configure the new download location in settings.json
The new download location is mounted on my system by the script (S01mount) that runs on every boot. I don't know in PlugOnDevice what is the best way to mount a partition on boot...

If all this seems too complicated, then I suggest you backup your data and try @nielsjeh way of using ext3 filesystem as default (viewtopic.php?f=41&t=2491&start=0)
This is similar to my way, only the mounting is done in fstab, instead of a startup script, and goes to the default location /tmp/hdd/volumes/HDD1. You'll loose access to the NTFS partition and won't be able to access the HDD through direct USB connection from Windows, unless you install a driver on your PC.
I also don't know what are the effects of this change to PlugOnDevice installation and operation.
I think I should have myself gone this last way and get rid of NTFS altogether... but now it's done and I'm lazy.

Finally, if all you see above are Chinese glyphs, stick to what you have and backup once in a while.

Oh! By the way: Last time formatted the HDD on POHD, I then reformatted the NTFS partition in Windows Vista. Sorry, but I don't trust POHD's handling of NTFS...
Gess what? Never had data corruption since...