January 30, 20233 yr Community Expert 26 minutes ago, CDLehner said: So...are we only doing this, and able to do it; because the new 8T...should have exactly the same files, as the old 3T (that replaced it)?? No. We are doing this so the new 8TB disk will be an empty xfs filesystem. The original files are still on disk5 in this new configuration. Then we can copy files from a reiser disk to this empty new 8TB disk and those copies will be files on an xfs filesystem. When we have completely copied all files from one of the reiser disks, we can reformat it and it will become an empty xfs filesystem ready to receive copies from other reiser disks so they can be reformatted. Repeat as necessary until all array disks have been reformatted xfs. At some point we will be able to shrink the array after copying all data from one of those reiser disks, then cache can go back in. I see from previous diagnostics it is already xfs so we are good there.
January 30, 20233 yr Author ^That's kinda what I meant. In other words...we wouldn't reformat the new 8T; if we didn't have those files elsewhere. Proceeding.
January 30, 20233 yr Community Expert 58 minutes ago, CDLehner said: Formatting... Should have finished in a few minutes at most. Post new diagnostics.
January 31, 20233 yr Author Yep, sorry. Thought it would be a while; so I went and...lived life, lol. Want a diagnostic? unserver-diagnostics-20230130-1923.zip
January 31, 20233 yr Author Or...what's our next step? Do we use unBALANCE, to copy files...from a drive, to the newly formatted 8T; then format that copied drive. Wash, rinse, repeat?
January 31, 20233 yr Community Expert There are lots of ways to do it. unBALANCE, Dynamix File Manager, command line. When I did it years ago I just ran mc in screen. Some people used rsync to copy then verify. Here is the pinned topic about this. I just updated the wiki link in that post. https://forums.unraid.net/topic/54769-format-xfs-on-replacement-drive-convert-from-rfs-to-xfs/ Copy instead of move is the best approach. It is faster and nothing gets deleted from the source drive. Then when you are satisfied with the result the source drive just gets formatted.
January 31, 20233 yr Community Expert 2 hours ago, CDLehner said: Want a diagnostic? Looks good. Empty xfs filesystem on disk1 Just noticed entries like this in syslog. This warning is something added recently, why we are doing all this Jan 30 18:40:01 unSERVER kernel: REISERFS warning: read_super_block: reiserfs filesystem is deprecated and scheduled to be removed from the kernel in 2025
January 31, 20233 yr Author 6 minutes ago, trurl said: There are lots of ways to do it. unBALANCE, Dynamix File Manager, command line. I think I'm going to stick with unBALANCE. It sure seemed easy enough (the GUI)...until I screwed it up. But I want another shot at it; now that I'm older and wiser, lol. 2 minutes ago, trurl said: Just noticed entries like this in syslog. This warning is something added recently, why we are doing all this Why are we doing all this? Not sure what you're asking?
January 31, 20233 yr Community Expert I was just pointing out that syslog is now giving warnings about reiser filesystems, and what it is warning about is the reason we are doing all this.
January 31, 20233 yr Author ^Oh...I see what you meant now. Yeah, trust me...I'm happy to be doing it! So, I'm correct: next step is copy one drive, to the newly formatted 8T xrf? I know it can be any drive...but I'm going to do 430RX 1st; and probably 55926 2nd. I'll check in after that...unless I run into questions on unBALANCE; because I, ultimately...want 430RX and 55926, out of the array. But I suspect I'l have to leave one of them in...so we have room to copy a disk that is staying in the array to it; and then re-format that "staying" disk, to xrf. Edited January 31, 20233 yr by CDLehner
January 31, 20233 yr Author Shot of 'plan'... And yes; I'm 99.9999% sure...I did not un-check 'dry run' that first time (but am now)... Edited January 31, 20233 yr by CDLehner
January 31, 20233 yr Author That's more like it... And here, I'd thought unBALANCE had broken the laws of physics...lol ☺️
January 31, 20233 yr Community Expert 2 hours ago, CDLehner said: I'm going to do 430RX 1st; and probably 55926 2nd. 430RX will become empty xfs disk then you will probably have to use it as the destination for files from other reiser disks. You might want to reconsider doing 55926 next. If you do it later you might not need its space anymore and could just remove it after copying instead of reformatting.
January 31, 20233 yr Author 2 things: sure trurl...I hear what you're saying. 2nd...to my surprise (maybe I shouldn't be?); this morning, there are still "10" hours, left on my copy.
January 31, 20233 yr Community Expert 2 hours ago, CDLehner said: still "10" hours, left on my copy. That original estimate of about 6 hours might have been a little optimistic, but 10 remaining doesn't sound right. How long does your 8TB parity check usually take? Post unbalance screenshot and new diagnostics.
January 31, 20233 yr Author 3 hours ago, trurl said: How long does your 8TB parity check usually take? Sorry; don't really know...how to accurately answer that. Run a diagnostic, even while the copy is going??
January 31, 20233 yr Community Expert 1 hour ago, CDLehner said: don't really know...how to accurately answer that. Main - Array Operation - History 1 hour ago, CDLehner said: Run a diagnostic, even while the copy is going? Won't hurt anything. But the speed in your screenshot isn't unreasonable. I'm sure its fine.
February 1, 20233 yr Author Copy from disk5 to disk1 finished. Not going to format disk5 for now. Going to copy disk2 to disk1; and then I suspect, we'll format disk2 to xrf. Here's a diagnostic, FWIW unserver-diagnostics-20230131-2201.zip
February 1, 20233 yr Author Installed Fix Common Problems plugin, and it ran a scan. Sitting tight...
February 1, 20233 yr Community Expert 10 hours ago, CDLehner said: xrf You've been making that typo consistently recently. It's XFS 10 hours ago, CDLehner said: Here's a diagnostic, FWIW Looks good. Jan 31 00:10:04 unSERVER sSMTP[22947]: Creating SSL connection to host Jan 31 00:10:04 unSERVER sSMTP[22947]: SSL connection using ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 Jan 31 00:10:05 unSERVER sSMTP[22947]: Authorization failed (535 5.7.0 ...authentication rejected (6)) Not sure what that is about. Did you get this memo?
February 1, 20233 yr Author 51 minutes ago, trurl said: You've been making that typo consistently recently. It's XFS Heard. So...obviously I can still access my GUI. I went to do this step anyway... Navigate to the Settings → Management Access page in the Unraid webgui and click the "Upgrade Cert" button. I don't see an 'upgrade cert' button. Edited February 1, 20233 yr by CDLehner
February 1, 20233 yr Community Expert I didn't know if it was related or not. Doesn't look like you ever had a cert.
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