Removing disk from Array, adding a new one and more

[piratx]

Okay Array started.. now for the last part?

New pool to have appdata and VMs on it..

 

 

Also this is still occurs as an issue

 

Edited November 19, 2021 by piratx

[trurl]

Since you rebuilt disk11 to a new disk, whatever was on original disk11 is now on new disk11. So of course you still have those on the array.

 

And, if you use the nvme in a pool as is, it will contain duplicates of those disk11 files.

 

What do you get from the command line with this?

ls -lah /mnt/disk11

 

[piratx]

/bin/ls: cannot access '/mnt/disk11': No such file or directory

 

Last one is disk10 now

 

root@eleven:~# ls -lah /mnt/disk10
total 8.0K
drwxrwxrwx   7 nobody users 138 Nov 19 19:24 ./
drwxr-xr-x  17 root   root  340 Nov 19 19:14 ../
drwxrwxrwx   4 nobody users  47 Apr  1  2019 backup/
drwxrwxrwx   3 nobody users  33 Apr  2  2021 disavowed/
-rw-rw-rw-   1 root   root  647 Apr 21  2020 docker-compose.yml.bak
drwxrwxrwx   6 nobody users  87 Nov 10 15:58 downloads/
drwxrwxr-x+ 11 nobody users 170 Nov 13 11:57 eleven/
drwxrwxrwx   3 nobody users  19 Apr 12  2021 isos/

 

Edited November 20, 2021 by piratx

[trurl]

  

7 hours ago, piratx said:

/bin/ls: cannot access '/mnt/disk11': No such file or directory

 

Last one is disk10 now

 

root@eleven:~# ls -lah /mnt/disk10
total 8.0K
drwxrwxrwx   7 nobody users 138 Nov 19 19:24 ./
drwxr-xr-x  17 root   root  340 Nov 19 19:14 ../
drwxrwxrwx   4 nobody users  47 Apr  1  2019 backup/
drwxrwxrwx   3 nobody users  33 Apr  2  2021 disavowed/
-rw-rw-rw-   1 root   root  647 Apr 21  2020 docker-compose.yml.bak
drwxrwxrwx   6 nobody users  87 Nov 10 15:58 downloads/
drwxrwxr-x+ 11 nobody users 170 Nov 13 11:57 eleven/
drwxrwxrwx   3 nobody users  19 Apr 12  2021 isos/

 

 

 

Since disk8 is the former rebuilt disk11, obviously what we need to see is disk8

 

[piratx]

Okay, here is disk8

 

root@eleven:~# ls -lah /mnt/disk8
total 4.0K
drwxrwxrwx   5 nobody users  50 Nov 19 19:24 ./
drwxr-xr-x  17 root   root  340 Nov 19 19:14 ../
drwxrwxrwx  14 nobody users 192 Apr 12  2021 appdata/
drwxrwxrwx   6 nobody users  61 Nov 11 10:29 domains/
drwxrwxr-x+  6 nobody users  60 Nov 13 11:57 eleven/

 

[trurl]

And the nvme can be expected to have those same contents when you put it in a pool.

 

I assume appdata and domains aren't currently being used, and they aren't unless you have enabled Docker or VM Manager again. Don't know what that eleven share is for.

 

My point is that you should delete either those on disk8, or those on the nvme, so you don't have duplicates. And you want appdata and domains (and system) on nvme ultimately if they will fit.

 

Let's just leave them alone for now until you get the nvme pool added. If that goes well then we can decide which to keep.

[piratx]

eleven is the name of my main share.. i have media, apps, etc etc in there.

I was thinking that maybe I needed to make a new share so I can have all the media from radarr/sonarr etc into their share.. i dont know if that will make the things better or not..

 

So I am deleting everything I have from the disk11 right?

 

[trurl]

3 hours ago, piratx said:

So I am deleting everything I have from the disk11 right?

There is no disk11 right?

3 hours ago, trurl said:

Let's just leave them alone for now until you get the nvme pool added. If that goes well then we can decide which to keep.

 

[piratx]

ex-disk11, yes the nvme

[piratx]

Sorry, I've done this. Nothing else except creating a new pool and adding the unassigned disk on it.. I suppose I needed to format it first.. 

 

[trurl]

Since it was in the array it is probably XFS, but Unraid is trying to mount it as btrfs. Stop the array, click on the disk to get to its page, and change it to XFS. Then start the array and report back.

[piratx]

Okay, now it's xfs. Do I need to format it via this option?

[trurl]

I expected it to mount. Your earlier diagnostics show it was XFS. Since you have the contents rebuilt to the disk assigned as disk8, you can format it and then get mover to move appdata and domains to that pool. You should also get system moved there and then cache would be just for caching, and nvme would be dockers/VMs.

 

Format the pool

Set appdata, domains, system shares to Use cache pool: Prefer and Select cache pool: sys

Run mover, wait for it to complete, then post new diagnostics.

 

 

 

[piratx]

Should be ok now.

[trurl]

Those settings look correct, but doesn't look like you have run mover yet since domains and system are still showing they are on protected storage instead of being on the unprotected pool.

[piratx]

I've started the mover a minute after my post

It took some hours and now I need a bigger nvme, but i'll kill one or two of the vms for now!

 

[trurl]

OK, that looks better, but only shows that the settings are correct, and that those shares have some files unprotected. Doesn't prove they have no files remaining on the array.

 

Compute... for each share will show you how much of each disk is used by each share, or use Compute All button.

[piratx]

Yes of course.. sorry. Here is compute all

[trurl]

Did you run mover? As you can see system share still has files on the array. Nothing can move open files, so if dockers/VMs are enabled those can't be moved. And mover won't move duplicates, so maybe that is why. If there are duplicates you will have to figure out which to keep and get those on sys pool and delete the others.

 

Also, appdata still has some files on cache pool. To get mover to move those you would have to make it move all of it to the array and then make it move all of it to sys pool. Mover won't move between pools.

 

And the separate appdata you have for plex is all on the array, we didn't really discuss what you want to do with that.

 

Simpler really to do some of this manually instead of trying to get mover to do it all. Do you know how to work with the files directly on the disks?

 

[piratx]

Hello  yes I saw some files stayed on the disks as well.

I'll have to stop the docker/VM to run that again, but one of the VMs is my DNS though.. pihole.

 

About Plex, this should be my first idea to have plex media on a share for backup, or it was the one from my old server moved to unraid and then added to the docker plex image.

 

I have used MC (if you mean that) before. Or I can do it with cp -prnv? Thanks once again!

Edited November 22, 2021 by piratx

[trurl]

7 minutes ago, piratx said:

I have used MC (if you mean that) before.

That is what I always do.

[piratx]

Hello @trurl

OK! I have finally the new M2 (500GB) can I use MC to move the files from the old (small one) to the new one?

My motherboard have 2 M2 ports so I guess I can do that and then remove the old one.. or another though is I could leave it for cache? 

 

And something I just saw Disk 7 is now disabled..

 

I've attached my diagnostics too

eleven-diagnostics-20211129-1740.zip

Edited November 29, 2021 by piratx

[trurl]

12 minutes ago, piratx said:

My motherboard have 2 M2 ports so I guess I can do that and then remove the old one.. or another though is I could leave it for cache? 

I would keep both as separate pools. In addition to having appdata, domains, system on fast storage, it can be useful to have other shares on fast storage, such as for download post-processing. Depends on what you want to do.

 

16 minutes ago, piratx said:

Disk 7 is now disabled

It has disconnected.

[piratx]

Well I am using it mainly for downloads. So yeah, downloads should be number one.

I can use the old M2 for download post-processing, but then I am having a main share (eleven) and in there the downloads folder.. how could I do the downloads on different share

 

The disk wasn't disconnected.. something else might happen.. maybe my PSU cant power all disks?

[trurl]

21 minutes ago, piratx said:

The disk wasn't disconnected

By disconnected, I mean Unraid lost its connection to the disk for some reason. Could be some connector, SATA or power, either end, including splitters, could be cable, could be power. You have to fix whatever caused that and rebuild the disk.