Depending on what you used to partition the USB drive you may be able to use that program/software/app to expand/extend the existing USB drive partition. Or you may have to remove the partition and start over. Here is one link that explains how to use Windows Disk Management to expand/extend/reduce a drive’s partition.
I don’t know what happens with the My Cloud however if one were to take the unused space and make a second partition on the USB drive. Will the My Cloud mount that second partition? Don’t know.
Not sure what external drive he is using. But I connected my My Book 4T to My Cloud. df shows that it is mounted as a 3.9TB partition. Actually it is mounted twice. Once as /nfs/My_Book_2 and as /var/media/My_Book_2. Both mounts show up as ufsd. Not sure if the My Book is just an external drive or has some internal intelligence to make it look like one partition.
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Edit: Just mounted the My Book 2 on my PC. It also shows up as a 4TB partition. Check into the drive information and found that it is formatted as NTFS with 4k sectors/clusters.
EASY problem to solve, leave it plugged in for 5-10 minutes and the 0kb will become normal…
Problem is simple, you need more power, so upgrade you 12V 1.5A power supply to 12V 2.0A and the USB 3.0 port will get enough power to fire up the SSD. Its the same reason some external HDD’s don’t fire up on the notebook, because the USB 3.0 port isn’t supplying enough power, nothing to do with drivers. (This worked for me, if the WD team would run some tests to see if this is the reason)
It’s also the reason why modifying the partition to 1 partition is helpful, because it requires less power to read just 1 partition.
