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
so i attempted to do this, and there are a few points missing.
1. apt-get install mdadm lvm2 Failed... could not find host error installing.
2. To fix that you must do a sudo apt-get update first before attempting anything here in this article or else it will not work.
3. when running these commands via live ubuntu usb sudo was needed or else read only fail will happen every single time. I made changes once the disk was mountable to the @updates/VERSION and switched it from 6 major 1 mi