(just a thought )Įdit to add: As previously pointed out the SSH directions for the first gen may not be the same as the second gen. Then share it with the rest of the good folks here. Why don’t you sit down and take the time to put together a set of directions on how to use SSH to accomplish everything this device is capable of (both versions mind you). Since you are not happy that nobody here ever says how you can use SSH to get things done on this device.

So rather than get yelled at by people when one provides specific directions and someone with zero SSH/Linux experience screws up, one will get the generic “use google to find out how to use SSH” from more than a few users here ,including myself. The main problem with SSH is one can easily render their My Cloud unusable (like performing an apt-get). Instead they leave it up to the end user/customer to be knowledgeable and figure things out on their own. SSH is not officially supported by WD which is why they haven’t put together a comprehensive (or even basic) guide on how to use it with the My Cloud. Well it would be helpful is you specified exactly what you want to do with SSH on the device. Have you noticed that nobody ever says here is how you can use SSH to get things done in this device? Note if you cat an executable file the screen may go nuts. JUst hit the space bar or the return key to step one line or one page at a time. cat |more will list the contents of a file one page at a time. df -h will list that information in human readable form.Ĭat will display a file to the console. Will list the amount of disk used by each directory in the current directory not recursive.ĭf will list information about each mounted disk. du -h lists the size in human readable form. ls -al will also list file that start with a period.ĭu gives you the amount of disk used by each directory. ls -l list files with information about permissions dates size. cd /var/log takes you to the location of most log files. Some commands that you could use are.Ĭd / gets you to the root of the filesystem. Some commands will work on the Gen1 but don’t exist on the gen2.

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