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This looks like a problem i have had a lot of times. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=11240.msg106816#msg106816 The "touch" command fixed my problem. I have had this problem several times after (also on rc8a). But i just run the script i was given by Prostuff1: find /mnt/ -type f -exec touch "{}" \; This should touch all files under /mnt which is were all unRAID disks are mounted I would probably do it one disk at a time and replace /mnt/ with /mnt/disk1, /mnt/disk2/, etc for as many disks as you have.

Okay. Then I understand a little bit more. My linux and Hw understanding is very limited. Thank you all for your help.

I'm glad to see you recovered some of your data. Your loss has nothing to do with the beta release however. I'm afraid that assigning a data disk as parity would clobber it in ANY raid system and any OS, regardless of version, beta or not. Joe L. I did know that. I just wanted to point it out before anyone else told me what a fool I am keeping important data on beta software. This one was all MY fault. (My job is actually as an engineer working with SAN and disk systems. (So plase dont tell anybody of my blunder )). Just a few more questions. Can I format the drive to get rid of all the faulty data? I cannot find a way to format a formatted drive, other than first use it as a paritydisk for some seconds. Than it becomes unformatted. But this does not feel like the right way to do it. The disk has now 1.8TB of garbage. Is the disk as good as "newly formatted" (But with data) when I have completed the reiserfsck after my mistake? Should I just delete all the data and continue using the disk as it is? If I remove the disk completely can I than move disk2 to slot1, Disk3 to slot2 and so on after doing a reset config?. (Avoiding the Parity disk of course) Finaly, I can see that my disks dev name has different value: sdb, sdc, sde, and finaly hdc. All are connected to the internal sata contoller. It has a total of 6 sata connections. Is there any good reason for the "HDC" instead of sda to sdf. When i set the function of the SATA controller to IDE instead of raid, I can only see the first four drives. So I suspect it to be somting special with the last two connections and maybe that is the reason for the "hdc"?

Yes, I have done that. All my files was in the lost+found directory. But most of them were corrupt. Many pictures did only have the first part of the original. Some had the first part correct and the second part was shifted to the right or to the left. And some only gave an error. I have copied all of them, and I will do the selection later on. I have shared many photos with my friends, so I think I will be able to get the most of them back. I also have some backups at work. It is just a lot of work getting all back to one collection. I have added a picture from my movie collection as an example. Most of my movies was also corrupt. Seems like data had been shifted around in the container. I tested many of them, but got errors in VLC. I think it will be easier to just download them once more than checking all. There may be errors later in the movie. I dont want to start looking on a movie that might start ok, and then fail in the middle. As long as I have all file names, it is easy to download again. I have a 50MB line for downloading. I know I should not be using a beta release for my pictures:(. I will now also always have a backup copy on another device of my important files. (I hope) Thanks again for all help.

Thank you. SDB1 was correct. The disk is now readable. I found my pictures. about 50% was working, But now that I have the file names I can get many back from friends. The movies and series was 99% NOT working. But that is no problem. I can download them again. I hope a future release of Unraid will move paritydisk to the end of the list. As it is today it is far to easy for a newbe like me to make this mistake. Thank you all for your help.

I have rebooted now, but the disk still shows as unformatted. Maybe I will try the job once more tonight? Thank you all for all the help so far.

The job is now done. How do I access the data? I tried to set only disk1 active in UNRAID. Bu the disk is still "unformatted". did also try to mount the disk with: mount /dev/sdb /mnt/disk1 This gave me an error saying: mount: mount point /mnt/disk1 does not exist Here is the end of the joboutput: Flushing..finished Objects without names 4721 Empty lost dirs removed 40 Dirs linked to /lost+found: 520 Dirs without stat data found 32 Files linked to /lost+found 4201 Objects having used objectids: 490 files fixed 448 dirs fixed 42 Pass 4 - finished done 454674, 94 /sec Deleted unreachable items 7967 Flushing..finished Syncing..finished ########### reiserfsck finished at Sat Aug 6 19:20:52 2011 ########### root@Tower:/dev#

I have an unraid server 5.0 server, Beta 6a. I had installed 5 two TB disks as disk1, disk2, disk3, disk4 and disk5. No parity disk. Disk 5 had no data, so I wanted this to become a parity disk. I stopped the server, Cleared configuration and set the server up with parity disk and four data disks. But instead of setting disk 5 as parity i managed to set disk 1 as new parity. The parity sync started, and I found out what was wrong after about 10 seconds. I corrected the error, but now my disk1 shows as unformatted. Is there anyway I can salvage some of my data? I had all my photos on this disk. Edit: Found this link. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=1483.msg9973#msg9973 After what I can see, the disk is /dev/sdb. Do I need to change any of the parms for 5.0b6a?

Thank you. That fixed my problem. All files are OK now. But i'm not sure what causes the problem I tried to copy more files, and some of them misses last access date. But now i have a fix.

Hello. I am new to this software and i have had some strange problems. I use version: 5.0-beta4 becuse i have 3 WD green 2TB without the jumper set. I did a copy (robocopy /copy:DT /FFT) of all my media from a windows share to unRaid. When i tried to access a movie from VLC, I got a message that the movie was not found. XBMC did a scan and found all movies, but when i tried to start it i got a message that the movie was removed. I tried to copy one file back to Window, but it the same problem occured. After many hours of investigation i found that the last accessed bit was changed to a NULL byte on most of the files. The timestamp of my sourcefiles was ok, so the problem occured after copy to unRaid. Tried: "touch -a filename". This did fix the problem. The movie was now accessible from all programs. But i have more than 100 000 files on my server, so i can not manualy touch every file. Is there anyone else who have experienced the same problem? Another problem is that when i press "compute" in Shares tab, the webif crash and i loose connecton with the server. I can still access the server from telnet. What command do i user to restart the webif? Is this a common problem? I need to find a solution to this problems before i buy the product.