dzyuba86

Close post, Found the issue. Hardware related.

Here's a log. Server has self shut down twice since I started logging. syslog-192.168.10.253.log

I enabled local syslog server. Will let post log next time it shuts itself down.

Hi. Recently my server started randomly shutting itself down after anywhere from 20 minutes to 15 hours. I can't find a cause. Any help will be appreciated. Let me know which logs to attach for review. Thanks

I made a new USB and copied my old config folder. Still had same issue. I disconnected ALL USB devices I had plugged into the tower and it booted up no problem. Now just working on getting everything reconnected. I did take a new ident.cfg file from the fresh install config folder though. Thanks for the help.

When I was making a copy of the folder it gave me an error saying this file is corrupt and can't be copied. Everything else copies just fine. So I can just delete that file and try booting again basically?

my ident.cfg file is corrupt. Apparently we had a power outage that must have caused this. What can I do so I don't lose my entire system and library of everything?

So just copy to a new flash drive and try booting again basically?

Woke up this morning to this screen. I've tried restarted. Going into safe boot. It always gets stuck here. I did notice one time something about a possible file corruption due to fs not being shut down properly. Hope someone can assist.

Finally resolved. Converting the .img into a passthrough disk worked.

*UPDATE* Converting the .img to a physical disk. If that doesnt work I'm just making the vm fresh from scratch. All my files are in cloud backup anyways so I'm not losing anything but time

I even uninstalled a few things to bring the size down to less than 400GB used in windows, It's still showing as over 900GB.

I'm making a new VM. But I don't get an option to do a disk passthrough.

So I did that. But even after running a defrag 3 times. The .IMG file is still much too large to boot into the VM without freezing mid boot.

Update. Using MC via terminal to copy to a different drive.

Another newbie question. What is the most efficient way to do this?

I have an 88TB array. I think I'll be good.

Or can I move the VM to the array, boot from array, defrag then move back to the ssd?

The VM won't boot as the vm drive has 0 free space. Is there anything I can do besides getting a larger drive to fix this? Or do I need to re-create the VM from scratch?

The vdisk was set to the same size as the drive. But now it's not booting due to the drive having 0 free space. Maybe I need a better setup solution and just recreate the VM from scratch again?

I've gone into scheduler and ran TRIM. I got back no space on the vm drive. Out of ideas here and need this working as soon as possible.

I'm trying to find a way to run a command to unmap on my existing vm.img and can't seem to find the proper command. But shouldn't it be doing this automatically already?

If it helps. I have auto trim and compression enabled.

It's set Primary vDisk Location: Auto /mnt/user/domains/Windows 11/vdisk1.img The img is on it's own ssd for only vm purpose. Not sure if that answers the question.

I have a windows 11VM on a dedicated 1TB SSD. For some reason. The VM keeps freezing and the free space shows 16KB on the drive under shares, in the VM however it's only showing 630GB of used space. Why is the file size so much larger than the used size and why isn't it shrinking automatically and is there a way to shrink/compress the file manually?