The Boys Box

Finally got our new drive in, will be cloning the drive today

My friend is tech literate, so do you think it would still be complicated for someone who knows their way around a pc and has the knowledge to follow technical instructions? Or would his lack of experience with Unraid itself make it too complicated for him? I’m definitely willing to make the drive if I have to. But it would be easier (and cheaper lol) if I can give him the instructions and have him do it, of course while I’m confirming everything he’s doing.

I’m gonna see if we can swing an extra drive to see if we can save as much as possible. Sadly bad thing about not having access to the physical server is having to wait for my friend to do all this

Honestly, quite a bit. It's a media server mainly so it's constantly downloading new things through sonarr and such. I'm not too worried about losing that data though since it's literally just media that can be re-downloaded and it's all indexed on stuff like sonarr. I'm just trying to limit the amount that needs to be redownloaded since it would literally be terabytes of stuff.

So I've actually wanted to replace the cables for a while now, unfortunately the server is at my friends house a couple hours away, I just manage it virtually. I'll definitely get him to replace those as soon as possible. And yeah I know we shouldn't keep the drives so full lol, we planned on buying a couple more drives when the prices of drives went down. I mounted disk1 in unassigned devices and it worked fine!

Alright, here are the diagnostics with nothing assigned to disk1 theboysbox-diagnostics-20260413-1801.zip

So the SMART test passed with no errors, when I get home I’ll post the new diagnostics! Thank you guys so much for all the help

Gotcha, just waiting for the smart test to finish (at 90%), then I’ll turn off maintenance mode, start it normally, then post the diagnostics

If disk1 does pass the SMART extended test, do you think it would be okay to try and rebuild using the old disk? Or should I just replace both? Also, if I can rebuild disk1, should I wait till I try and clone disk5 and do xfs_repair to rebuild both at the same time? Or can I just try it as soon as the smart test finishes if it passes.

Still got the same input/output error xfs_repair -v /dev/md5p1 Phase 1 - find and verify superblock... superblock read failed, offset 2199023247360, size 131072, ag 2, rval -1 fatal error -- Input/output error

Actually, not sure if I ran the command correctly at first, just did it again to get the exact message and it actually ran this time. This is what I got for Disk1 Phase 1 - find and verify superblock... - block cache size set to 1399136 entries Phase 2 - using internal log - zero log... zero_log: head block 0 tail block 0 - scan filesystem freespace and inode maps... - found root inode chunk Phase 3 - for each AG... - scan and clear agi unlinked lists... - process known inodes and perform inode discovery... - agno = 0 - agno = 1 - agno = 2 - agno = 3 - agno = 4 - agno = 5 - agno = 6 - agno = 7 - agno = 8 - agno = 9 - agno = 10 - agno = 11 - agno = 12 - agno = 13 - agno = 14 - agno = 15 - agno = 16 - process newly discovered inodes... Phase 4 - check for duplicate blocks... - setting up duplicate extent list... - check for inodes claiming duplicate blocks... - agno = 0 - agno = 1 - agno = 5 - agno = 4 - agno = 3 - agno = 7 - agno = 9 - agno = 10 - agno = 8 - agno = 6 - agno = 2 - agno = 11 - agno = 12 - agno = 13 - agno = 14 - agno = 15 - agno = 16 Phase 5 - rebuild AG headers and trees... - agno = 0 - agno = 1 - agno = 2 - agno = 3 - agno = 4 - agno = 5 - agno = 6 - agno = 7 - agno = 8 - agno = 9 - agno = 10 - agno = 11 - agno = 12 - agno = 13 - agno = 14 - agno = 15 - agno = 16 - reset superblock... Phase 6 - check inode connectivity... - resetting contents of realtime bitmap and summary inodes - traversing filesystem ... - agno = 0 - agno = 1 - agno = 2 - agno = 3 - agno = 4 - agno = 5 - agno = 6 - agno = 7 - agno = 8 - agno = 9 - agno = 10 - agno = 11 - agno = 12 - agno = 13 - agno = 14 - agno = 15 - agno = 16 - traversal finished ... - moving disconnected inodes to lost+found ... Phase 7 - verify and correct link counts... XFS_REPAIR Summary Sun Apr 12 19:06:19 2026 Phase Start End Duration Phase 1: 04/12 19:05:13 04/12 19:05:14 1 second Phase 2: 04/12 19:05:14 04/12 19:05:15 1 second Phase 3: 04/12 19:05:15 04/12 19:05:49 34 seconds Phase 4: 04/12 19:05:49 04/12 19:05:50 1 second Phase 5: 04/12 19:05:50 04/12 19:05:52 2 seconds Phase 6: 04/12 19:05:52 04/12 19:06:18 26 seconds Phase 7: 04/12 19:06:18 04/12 19:06:18 Total run time: 1 minute, 5 seconds done

Since for some reason the webUI didn’t have the option thing that allowed for the modifier, I used command line. And the exact command I used was “xfs_repair -v /dev/md1p1” and the same thing for disk5. Didn’t do -L since I read that I shouldn’t use that unless I was absolutely certain I was doing the right thing

Yep, disk5 read failure. Here’s hoping disk1 is able to pass

That’s what I assumed as well. Disk1 passed the short test, if it passes the extended one, do you think it’ll be salvageable?

Exactly what I was afraid of, currently running an extended test on both Disk1 and Disk5, but a short test on Disk5 has already shown a read failure. If Disk1 passes does that at least mean I can save that one? I did a short test on that one before and it passed it, I kinda thought on Disk1 it might have just been a bad sata cable.