Tutorial: How to access DSM's Data & System partitions
If you can't access your Xpenology box but you still wish to try and 'fix' some configuration files or perhaps you wish to finally make that backup that you should have done before fiddling with the root user, then you can access the content of the system partition and data partitions through a Live Ubuntu CD (or whatever unix flavoured OS you so desire). Here is how to:
1 - Make a Live Ubuntu USB drive. Ideally it is more convenient to make a persistent Live Ubuntu USB drive but tha
@cinpou I ran into this same issue, and it seems to be specific to RAID LINUX partitions. Although I wasn't able to figure out how to mount the first system partition on every disk I was able to zero out (wipe) the system partition, which effectively removes the configuration file that specifies the version of the DSM you have to use.
Say you have a /dev/sda and it has the 3 partitions - use the following command to zero out the first system partition
dd if=/dev/zero of