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What Governor shows on the right side. Can you switch the 'Normal' mode and see it change on the right hand side?

I said to use the '-n' option, which is wrong that just checks a disk and doesn't fix anything. You have to specify '/dev/sdX' to check a disk. Run the check disk routine on the drive using UD and see if it can fix the disk. If UD can't fix it, you'll not be able to do it with the ntfsfix command manually or in a script. If you look at this ntfsfix manual, you'll see that the Linux command is not as robust as Windows. It's possible you're running into something the ntfsfix can't fix: https://linux.die.net/man/8/ntfsfix

Linux is different from Windows. You can't compare them. Go to the UD webpage, click on the Help icon ('?'). Read down in the help and you'll see how to mount a UD device from the command line.

You check an ntfs disk when it is unmounted. It doesn't work after it is mounted. Correct. You can't use the hard coded sdX because it changes on boot. In the UD script use this because it will adjust for 'sdX' changing: netsfix -n $DEVICE The '-n' does a repair. But you are caught in a catch 22, because the UD script is executed after the disk is mounted, so it is too late to check the disk.

UD disks are spun down according to the disk spin down time for the Unraid server. It looks like you have that timer set to 45 minutes. You can set the disk spin down for the server to never spin down and then set the spin down on each disk. If those disks are formatted, Linux is not detecting a file system. I would also mark the UD disks as passed through so no UD operations will occur on them. You wouldn't want to accidentily format a disk.

It will be recognized.

I am going to do some testing with two preclears running at once when the server is shutdown. I suspect there may be an issue with more than one preclear running on shutdown. I saw in one of your logs that the shutdown did pause two disks.

Use these steps: Create the root share on your local machine. Name it a unique name. Click on the gear icon in the upper right of the UD page. That is the UD settings. Set SMB sHaring to how you want UD devices shared with SMB. Choose either "Private" or "Private Hidden". I don't recommend "Public" for security reasons, especially when using a root share. Click on the three gear icon by the root share device and set the "Share" switch on. Mount your rootshare. You should be able to see the root share when browsing with a PC. Go to the other server and add a SMB device. Let UD search the servers, and then choose the server. Enter Credentials and then let UD search for the shares. Choose the root share and it should then be mountable. You will potentially have an issue with auto mounting your root shares. Each server has to be on-line when the other wants to auto mount the other root share. Why are you cross sharing rootshares? I assume you're on a LAN? Just set both to share their rootshares and browse to them. If you are doing this across the Internet, you'll have issues with Internet hiccups. CIFS does not handle networking drops/errors very well.

The preclear status file used to resume a preclear is written to the flash drive so it will be available after a reboot. When the server is shutting down, there is an event that stops all preclears and causes the preclear status of each disk to be written to the flash drive. The preclear status will not be written to the flash drive if the server crashes. The preclear doesn't do a continuous write to the flash of the current preclear status to minimize flash writes.

@JorgeB You da man!

The rootshare is a bind mount and symlinks don't work in a bind mount.

I just ran a test and see the issue also. The global settings should apply to rootshares, but it doesn't appear it does. I'll do some more testing.

I think what I was trying to say is be sure the disk is unmounted properly in UD before unplugging it. There is an icon on the UD page to do a disk check. I don't think it is a good idea to do it when the disk is plugged in. That sounds like the Libvirt Hotplug Plugin is not installed. Post this issue on the USB Manager plugin forum. You can set the disk passed through in UD and then attach it to your VM. Having it set passed throuogh will prevent any operations with UD.

Those are set at the global level. What issues are you having with exclusive shares in the rootshare?

I don't remember you answering this post: Were sdc and sde the only drives being precleared?

I'll look into it.

Yes, you can mount the remote share manually with different paramaters on the mount command, but that's not how UD mounts the remote shares. Create a folder on the remote share for NextCloud and it can control the permissions it needs, or you can set the folder permissions manually. I did answer this:

Preclear paused two disks when it shut down: Jul 9 11:09:08 backupserver unassigned.devices: Unmounting All Devices... Jul 9 11:09:08 backupserver preclear.disk: Pausing preclear of disk 'sdc' Jul 9 11:09:08 backupserver preclear.disk: Pausing preclear of disk 'sde' Were these the disks being precleared at the time of the shutdown?

Yes, it will use the Unraid password unless you set one specifically for the drive you are trying to mount in UD Settings.

Are you accessing the remote share through the local mount point?

There is no way for you to control the mount permissions. Access to SMB shares on Unraid is controlled by user access (Private mode of sharing) unless you are sharing the devices Public. In that case all users can read and write the shares. What is your use case?

Post diagnostics.

Are both servers running 6.12? Post new diagnostics.

I saw those in the previous logs. I can't find anything about those errors on the net.

Try a reboot.