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10 minutes ago, JonathanM said:
ident.cfg is just a text file, like most of the config files. You can extract just that file from the latest download from https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/download_list/ and edit it, if you don't remember customizing the entry in the file just leave it as default, you can change things after you boot.
Did you look through the other files in your config folder to see if any others were messed up? I think only the super.dat and the key file aren't plain text.
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?
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7 hours ago, JorgeB said:
Not sure what you mean by copy, recreating means backup current flash drive, recreate the flash drive manually or by using the USB tool, restore the config folder from the backup.
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?
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8 minutes ago, JorgeB said:
Try recreating the flash drive, or booting with a different one using a stock install, to confirm what is the problem.
So just copy to a new flash drive and try booting again basically?
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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.
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Finally resolved. Converting the .img into a passthrough disk worked.
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*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
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6 minutes ago, JorgeB said:
If cp --sparse=always didn't shrink the vdisk, it means it's really using all that space, and that there are no holes/zeroes it can remove.
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.
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19 hours ago, Kilrah said:
Should always be set a bit smaller, or ideally since you're not going to share it with something else it should be passed through so there's no vdisk at all.
You can copy to array, though note you need more than 1TB free on the specific drive you're going to copy it to.
I'm making a new VM. But I don't get an option to do a disk passthrough.
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6 hours ago, JorgeB said:
Use cp, mc won't make the new copy sparse, at least not AFAIK.
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.
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Update. Using MC via terminal to copy to a different drive.
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2 hours ago, JorgeB said:
You can copy the VM to the array, then copy back with cp --sparse=always, that will "re-sparsify" the vdisk, then do the changes.
Another newbie question. What is the most efficient way to do this?
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1 hour ago, Kilrah said:
Should always be set a bit smaller, or ideally since you're not going to share it with something else it should be passed through so there's no vdisk at all.
You can copy to array, though note you need more than 1TB free on the specific drive you're going to copy it to.
I have an 88TB array. I think I'll be good.
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Or can I move the VM to the array, boot from array, defrag then move back to the ssd?
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16 minutes ago, JorgeB said:
No.
You need to trim de vdisk by running Windows defrag, after making that change, trimming the SSD won't do anything.
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?
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14 minutes ago, Kilrah said:
You haven't answered what size the vdisk has been set to.
If the drive is 1TB but you've set the vdisk size to 2TB then the VM can attempt to write beyond the 1TB mark, which would require the vdisk becoming larger than 1TB, but it can't since the drive is 1TB.
The vdisk file itself will never shrink.
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?
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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.
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36 minutes ago, JorgeB said:
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?
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If it helps. I have auto trim and compression enabled.
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5 minutes ago, Kilrah said:
Is the drive passed through or does it hold a vdisk? if vdisk what's the set size?
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.
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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?
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I ran a non correcting check as you suggested and it came up with 0 errors. Also my telegram bot now says my health passes instead of fails. SO I'm going to assume this is resolved and can be flagged as solved. Thanks.
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Should I be worried about this?
For clarity and back story. I had a drive fail so I replaced it. A week later another drive failed so I replaced that one as well (These are my old 3TB drives I've been replacing). This month when it ran it's monthly parity check it took a very long time and found this many errors..
Just wondering if there is any cause for alarm or leave it be?
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So I'm looking at adding VM capability to my unraid server to double down as a part time gaming rig for light to medium gaming.
I currently have:
Asus TUF gaming X570 PLUS motherboard
Ryzen 5950X cpu16GB ram (will add more
Nvidia p2200 quadro GPU.
Can I add a RTX card and use that for the passthrough for VM's and keep the quaddro for Plex transcoding only? Since the motherboard supports dual GPU's. I'm planning to add a 2.5" ssd for VM use only, the M.2 drives I have are for cache and downloads.
Thanks in advance
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Been seeing these more often than usual and not sure why they are popping up.
Won't boot help
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Posted · Edited by dzyuba86
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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.