New drive says Unmountable: not mounted

[bndrillo]

New drive says Unmountable: not mounted, 

I have run preclear on disk and then when I tried to mount it ran a rebuild and I have rebooted and removed and remounted and still New drive says Unmountable: not mounted

Unraid version 6.9.2

 

[JonathanM]

Are you adding a drive slot, or are you replacing an existing drive? Do you expect the drive to have data on it when you are done?

 

Your description is unclear. Perhaps a screenshot of the main GUI and diagnostics would help explain what you are trying to accomplish.

[trurl]

Also, can you explain what you actually mean when you say "mounted"? The way you are using that word doesn't seem to be the usual linux "mount".

 

Perhaps you mean "assign"? Or what?

[bndrillo]

22 hours ago, JonathanM said:

Are you adding a drive slot, or are you replacing an existing drive? Do you expect the drive to have data on it when you are done?

 

Your description is unclear. Perhaps a screenshot of the main GUI and diagnostics would help explain what you are trying to accomplish.

Yes I am adding a new slot, and I don't expect it to have data on it, after I tried to add the drive as a new slot Unraid ran it's own check on it, and said Unmountable: not mounted, so I removed it back to unassigned devices and ran preclear and then re added it as a slot and then unraid said rebuilding drive and still came up as Unmountable: not mounted, what part of the diagnostics would you like me to post

[itimpi]

Have you ever formatted the drive on Unraid to create an empty file system?

[bndrillo]

yes I did, first thing I did in xfs, should I try that again

33 minutes ago, itimpi said:

Have you ever formatted the drive on Unraid to create an empty file system?

 

[bndrillo]

I formatted it again and now it works, don't understand, perhaps I should not have formatted it before running preclear, not sure, but it works now 

[itimpi]

4 minutes ago, bndrillo said:

perhaps I should not have formatted it before running preclear

A Preclear wipes any existing format.

[bndrillo]

8 minutes ago, itimpi said:

A Preclear wipes any existing format.

And knowing is half the battle.  No one has ever accused me of being smart.  lol

[trurl]

And even if you hadn't done preclear after formatting, Unraid would have cleared the disk when you added it to a new slot. You must format the drive after you add it to the array.