When adding a second cache disk i managed to format my existing cache SSD. Im still unsure of how i manged this but when adding the disk it asked me to confirm that i wanted to format the drive (assuming this was the new one i went ahead) 

 

Anyway, im looking to restore the drive either to the same disk or a new one with the existing file tree etc whats the best way to do this if its possible? btrfs gives me a generation error and im not sure how to get round that so its been left as is for now. Theres no specific files on there that i want, however i have weeks if not monthss of resetting up VMs and docker containers if im not able to restore.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Please post the diagnostics.

The drive in question is sdo the 250gb ssd that is not mounted

tower-diagnostics-20230501-1236.zip

Original cache was using xfs, that fs only supports single device pool.

 

Post the output of

xfs_repair -v /dev/sdo1

 

sdo Output.txt

Now unassign the new cache device, start array, stop array, assign the old cache device, change cache slots to 1, click on the device and make sure the filesystem is set to xfs, start array.

hello, i have now done this but everything is within a lost + found Folder

See what you can salvage from there or restore from a backup.

ok thank you for your help, presume theres no way to restore the original file structure?

1 minute ago, jdavies94 said:

ok thank you for your help, presume theres no way to restore the original file structure?

The files/folders in lost+found are ones where the repair process could not locate the directory information to give them their correct name and position in the file structure.

ahhh ok makes sense, so being that there is absolutely no remaining directories it would imply its completely lost?