[Solved] Unmountable: not mounted

[Phreaknes]

I've been fighting this issue for a while now and I'm at my wits end.

 

I'm new to UnRAID so please forgive me.

I had a three 2Tb SAS HDD in an array for several months. I got a great deal on a 6TB SATA HDD. I succesfully got the 6Tb into the array as a parity but I can't get this other 2TB drives to go into the data pool. I've attached my Diag log.

 

I've swapped 2TB drives with some cold spares I have.

I've changed slots

I've checked all of the power and wiring.

I've precleared both of the 2TB drives I've tried to add to the data array

 

I just don't know what I'm missing.

phreakserve-diagnostics-20210906-1014.zip

[JorgeB]

You have 3 connected 2TB disks, all 3 are assigned to the array, don't understand what exactly is the problem.

[Phreaknes]

Disk 3 = Unmountable: not mounted

[JorgeB]

Was that disk formatted before?

[Phreaknes]

I formatted it in unraid after the preclear

[trurl]

1 hour ago, Phreaknes said:

I formatted it in unraid after the preclear

Did you add it to the array while it was clear, then format it?

[Phreaknes]

24 minutes ago, trurl said:

Did you add it to the array while it was clear, then format it?

No I think I formatted it before the adding it to the array but I can't be for sure it was very late at night.

[trurl]

If you formatted it before adding it to the array, then it would no longer be clear when you added it to the array, so Unraid would have to clear it again so parity remained valid. After it finished clearing, you could format it in the array and it would have a filesystem.

[Phreaknes]

So do I have now have to preclear again and then add it to the array but not format it? or is there a quicker way. I've been at this for about 3 days.

[trurl]

Looks like you rebooted before getting diagnostics, so we can't see what happened before reboot.

 

I assume at this point the disk is clear because Unraid cleared it after you added it to the array. But it hasn't been formatted in the array.

 

For future reference, a clear disk is all zeros, and so has no effect on parity. That is why a clear disk can be added to the array since it won't invalidate parity. A formatted disk isn't a clear disk, a formatted disk has had an empty filesystem written to it.

 

Unraid requires a clear disk when adding to the array. If it isn't already clear, Unraid will clear it before it allows you to use the disk. After it has been cleared, you can format it in the array.

 

Post a screenshot of Main - Array Operation

[Phreaknes]

[Phreaknes]

bump

[ChatNoir]

7 hours ago, Phreaknes said:

Tick the box saying Yes I want to do this and hit the Format button.

[Phreaknes]

Mark as solved please.

[ChatNoir]

8 minutes ago, Phreaknes said:

Mark as solved please.

Did it, for future reference you can simple edit your first post and adjust the title.