Just Bill

Brilliant! Back up and running with the two disks in the pool. It kicked off a parity check so it'll be at least 16 or so hours before I screw it all up again... LOL. Thanks for the wild ride, it was very educational. Tomorrow after the parity check I may try and add a new parity disk and see what I can break then. LOL

NVM, found it. tower-diagnostics-20250505-1439.zip

I was able to create the diagnostics but I can't find the USB in Midnight Commander. Where/what am I looking for.

I have absolutely no idea how to produce the diagnostics from the terminal, or where I'd place them to where I could then post them. With the GUI down, I am beyond useless in linux. Right now I can load "Midnight Commander" but it doesn't seem to have access to anything other than itself.

Okay, so I've managed to kill the server entirely, so that's lovely. Once again doing things you didn't ask for. "Remove Pool" was grayed out while everything was running. Attempted to stop the array again and it hung on unmounting disks although everything appeared to be spun down already it just couldn't complete unmounting. So I tried rebooting and now everything is hosed. The console says it is unable to connect to localhost. Have I killed my system, and if so is there any way to recover the array where my actual data resides?

It completed, so I stopped the array, removed the disk and started back up again. I am now successfully able to start the array with just the two disks and everything is functioning, but btrfs is still pissed off about that disk not being there... LOL. There are some btfs operations ongoing now that prevent me from stopping the array again, seems like more mirroring or somethign going on. So did I jump the gun and was there more to do before I got right back into removing the disk, or is this going to work itself out when the balancing is completed again? thunderstrike-diagnostics-20250505-1222.zip

Running now. Looks to be balanced pretty well already but I guess required to convert to RAID1.

I'd appreciate the commands to give that a shot first, but if necessary I will certainly try rc.4. Thanks in advance.

Greetings, another newbie with questions/issues regarding upgrading a disk in a pool. I ready many posts regarding this topic before giving it a go and still am unable to get rid of the disk I'm trying to replace. A little history. This is my first unraid build utilizing ten year old hardware that had recently been replace from being my primary system. It originally had a 250 GB SATA SSD and a few mechanical disks from 3TB to 12TB in size and I originally set up with this configuration. Almost immediately I decided to add a 2TB nvme drive to the pool. As there was such a disparity between the two drives in the pool, I did not do any RAID configuration. I have now added a new 2TB SATA SSD with the intent of replacing the 250GB disk. But btfrs doesn't seem to want to ever forget about the 250GB ten year old disk. I had shut down docker and VM managers, moved data to the array, added the new disk, and removed the old, but the system kept complaining about the missing disk. I even deleted the pool entirely and tried to set up a new pool of the two disks, and it would continue to complain about the missing old disk. Eventually I decided to just get everything back up and running so recreated the pool with all three disks and restored appdata from backup and the system is up and running, but I really dislike that the entire system seems to be dependent on a 10 year old SSD. So any advice on how to get rid of this disk? I really don't want to go moving to the array again if I don't have to, I don't keep anything on the pool that I don't have backed up and I can restore easily if I can just get the system to forget about this disk. thunderstrike-diagnostics-20250505-0921.zip

Just set up GlutunVPN and having the exact same issue. All my apps were communicating properly together configured in bridge mode but once I directed them all through the vpn, they are no longer able to communicate with each other. Prowlaar, Mylar, NZBGet. I'm thinking there must either be a secondary network established for this, or a routing table on the VPN docker, but not really sure how to go about doing either of those. Not very strong in Linux and I'm about two weeks into my unRAID trial. If anyone knows how to set this up properly, it'd be greatly appreciated information to have.

Okay, complete newb with unRAID and currently in my trial and trying to get the lay of the land and having some issues getting things established. I've managed to get Plex and Tautulli set up as Docker containers and migrated from a Windows system successfully and all is well on that front. But now I'm trying to figure out how to retire an aging laptop running Linux Mint that has a lot of services running for me, PIA for a VPN, Mylar3, qBittorent, and Jackett. Thought about running everything as docker containers but concerned about using up all my PIA connections, i think it is limited to 10. I've set up Mylar as a docker container and it seems fine, but having trouble having it connect to storage on the array. Also set up a Linux Mint VM running on cache disks and also want to connect to storage on the array, and while I can manually go and open up the storage, I can't get qbitorrent to utilize is, nor can I get the storage mapped as permanent storage using virtioFS. I'm more of a windows guy than linux so struggling with this quite a bit. I've tried setting the share up as cifs and nfs, I've left it as public, and I still can't get it set up as storage visible to the VM. I think I'm meant to mount it first and add something to fstab and I've tried a few different things but nothing seems to work. All my googling seems to show years old posts mostly related to issues with windows systems and virtioFS, not with linux. So I guess my question is, does this work with linux vms? Am I missing a virtio ISO or something? I see Windows systems need drivers, are the linux versions baked in or do I need to find them somewhere? VM Settings: SeoBIOS Unraid Share Mode: VirtiosFS Mode Unraid Source Path: mnt/user/MyShareName Unraid Mount Tag: MyShareName Added to fstab: //tower.local/mnt/user/MyShareName virtiofs rw, relatime 0 0 Any thoughts or advice on what I'm doing wrong or what I'm possibly missing here?