gary.e.mckee

Well it looks like nobody had suggestions for solving my problem. I was using Debian 8.xx so I tried to setup the USB stick on a different machine running Debian 10 and the stick does kind of boot up. It is recognized, but does not fully boot UNRaid, but that if for further investigation so I will close this out. Gary E. McKee

I have been trying to load UNRaid on a 32 Gig USB Stick from My Linux (Debian) box. I have syslinux installed on my linux system. I have searched for installing instructions, but all I have found are several years old. The following is what I have come up with: Procedure Used To Submit For Help Download UNRaid Zip File 6.8.3 Save To Download shemp_software/unraid-6.8.3 Unzip File (unzip unRAIDServer-6.8.3x86_64.zip) Format USB Drive As Fat 32 (Using disk program) (Takes About 30 Sec.) Name = UNRAID (All In Caps) Mount UNRAID USB Stick cd /media/gemckee/UNRAID cp -rf shemp_sotware/unraid-6.8.3/* ./ Open Linux Terminal (Not On USB Drive) cd ~ sudo umount UNRAID (sudo umount /media/gemckee/UNRAID) Open Folder Where UNRaid Files Were Unzipped (shemp_software/unraid-6.8.3) sudo bash make_bootable_linux Check Weather Or Not To Use UEFI (No) (Or N, Makes No Difference) If Failed, Run Again Remove USB Stick Install In New Machine & boot to USB stick. Get “BOOTMGR is missing message” When I put the USB stick in the future UNRAID machine I receive the message BOOTMGR missing The machine will boot other USB sticks. Any specific suggestions on what I am doing wrong is appreciated. Thanks Gary E. McKee

I didn't mean highwater = 100G, I should have said highwater and min free space 100 G. My bad. It's been years since I put al lot of the files on my unraid system. I started at Version6.3.3 and recently upgraded. I believe I downloaded the files and put them in the proper share. IE put a movie in share Plex,Movie, (movie name). I don't recall installing a number of files on the hard disk itself. Meaning in did not put files on a partition on /dev/sda thenl unraid on this disk. As far as my wanting to move files around, I was thinking of moving the files from /dev/sda /dev/sdb etc. I just looked and realized I can't see files that way. Now I know what you mean about screwing thing up. I will look at Midnight Commander, but I can't find it. I am assuming it is run from the unraid system, but where is it?

Ok to start off, I think I messed up when I originally setup my shares. My file structure is: Plex Movies (Movie Name) TV Shows {Show Name} (Series) (Episode) Music {Artist) How I originally set up my shares were: High Water Min Free Space = 100G Automatically Split Only top 3 Directories I have all 8 TB drives What would happen, a drive would fill up to where only 35 Gig was free, then say no space left although there was more space on a different hard drive in the share. After reading more on the documentation and different support questions, I think I should set thing up to High water = 100 Gig. (I'm guessing the max size of movies would be about 70 Gig). I should also setup the structure to be most free to balance everything out. I presently have 6 drives that the Plex share uses. I should automatically split only top 2 directories. If this is correct, please let me know and if I am wrong, what should my setting be. The second part of my questions is some of my physical hard drives are 99% or more full. I would like to move the movies using the terminal and the linux move command to move the movies to a physical hard drive within the share that has more free space. Should I do this with the array running or should I stop the array.?

No firewall set-up blocking outgoing uploads. I want to thank everybody for the help, but I must terminate this effort. What was on this disk was not that important and I can recreate it. It seems like we went down the rabbit hole and I am wasting to much time that I need to spend on other projects. Thanks Again. I wish we could have figured this out, but for me, it would only be an educational experience. Thanks Agaiin

I disabled ublock Origin. I can open the zip file. Here goes again. Same response with upload failed.

I have ublock origin but that shouldn’t block outgoing messages. I have the zip file on my desktop machine and that is where I'm attaching it to this message which is also on my desktop. When I say drag files, they drag to the box at the bottom of this page, and it says upload failed and I get a message block that has an explanation mark inside a triangle and a -200. I can not type in this message area until I click OK . The same thing happens if I do a choose files choosing the zip file which I have in the Downloads file of my desktop machine. On version 6.3.3 the zip file was written to the /boot partition of the unRAID usb stick. I assume that it isn't written there any more. If it is, then I could shut the unRAID machine down and remove the stick and copy it. If it is only written to the /boot directory if I tell it to save it there, I can't do that. When I tired that, it looks like it opened a blank terminal that I could not do anything with. It was just a white screen with nothing on it and I could not type on it or possible move it. I tried to move it to see if something was off screen but no luck. Also when I tried it and tried to save it to the /boot directory, i never had a option of where to save it. I had the unRAID logo with waving bars waving from about midnight when I went to bed to about 9 am this morning when I killed it. Still nothing.

unRAIDServer-6.8.3-x86_64.zip Did this work. I'm not sure but I think it didn't.

I'll try to upload the zip file again. Do you think I should use the xfs_repair command on the "no file system" disk? I'll keep trying to attach the zip file to another upload if I can.

Found it. I have attached it to this response. unRAIDServer-6.8.3-x86_64.zip Thanks PS. It looks like it failed. I both dragged the zip file to the uploaded files and I did the choose files method. If in fact the files didn't attach, please let me know what else I could try.

I ran the diagnostics but I can't find the resulting zip file. At present, I am controlling the unRAID server from a remote machine. When I go the display on the unRAID machine, the display is huge and overfills the physical display. I haven’t found a way to reduce the size. When I open a console terminal, that window is so large, I can't move it around to get to any of the controls Where can I find the diagnostics zip file from the remote machine. Thank.

The update worked, but I have a problem that I don't know if is related to the upgrade. I have an 8 TB hard disk that was showing up under the old OS and it only had about 50 Gig of space left. After I did the update, I received the message that that disk had no file system. The smart data says it never failed. The different parameters that smart monsters said they were either pre-fail or old age. Smart also said it passed. I did not run the smart tests after I did the update so the data may be from before the update or after the update. I don't know I have another 8 TB drive that I can put in its place. Should I do this and should the system rebuild the data? The data is not terribly important, just that it would take a long time to re download. Or should I just remove the existing disk without a file system and treat it as a new disk? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks

I am ruining unRAID 6.3.3 and have been for several years. I recently had a problem and although I have fixed it, it was suggested I upgrade to the latest. I tried the process of going to plugins, and update from their. I get the error message https://s3.amazonaws.com/dnld.lime-technology.com/stable/unRAIDServer.plg....failed (invalid url/server" I then tried the same but manually typing in "https://s3.amazonaws.com/dnld.lime-technology.com/stable/unRAIDServer.plkg". I received the same error. How to I update my unRAID server or should I start from scratch. The only plugin I have is the preclear plugin and I have no VMs or apps installed. If I start from scratch, how do I do it? Should I use a new USB stick and download and install the OS, then setup my complete system with all the shares, then transfer the license? I probably could really use a step by step instructions. Thanks In Advance Gary McKee

I have not done a mem test, but it is time for bed. I check back in the morning. Thanks for your help.

I know what format does. That is why I was surprised when UNRaid said that one time and that time only that I needed to format the disk. That is the only time I did a format on any hard drives on my UNRaid system. I said the New Config did not take very long because I don't recall it taking any time. I was not sure if it would be instantaneous or take hours. That was just some information that I though might be helpful if the New Config should take a measurable amount of time. Thanks for clearing that up for me. Its good to know I don't need to format old parity drives in a new system. The only disk I would format are disks that have data on them that I had already copied to the new system. The idea for formatting the drives that I copied data from is so I know there is nothing on them that could potentially confuse how I would be setting things up. If I format the drive, then I know there is nothing on it and it would be like using a new drive. I have an unused computer similar to the one I am using for my UNRaid machine, except that the number of processor cores are different. That machine was working fine, till I shut it down because I am now using a different computer for what it was used for. That should help alleviate any concerns about hardware issues. The only common things from the old (present ) machine and the new machine would be the hard drives.