Adding "qnap system" drives to Unraid

[Aidan13]

I am adding 2 drives from my broken qnap system to unraid.  These drives show up in Unassigned Discs but there does not seem to be a way to format them for Unraid.  The discs show as Dev 1 and Dev 2.  With each of these disc there is a little number array 1 thru 5 with a button to "Change Mount Point".  Not sure what the means. 

 

I have rebooted unraid several times, started and stopped the array, selected each of the new drives and am able to get into the drives settings, attributes, etc. but there is no way to format these existing drives.  I have looked on this site for formatting drives but those solutions are not working or not helping

 

I am new to Unraid and a little lost at this point, any help is appreciated

 

Thanks

Tim N

[Vr2Io]

You can use command line

 

wipefs -a /dev/devX to remove all partition.

[Aidan13]

Thanks for th answer  Vr2Io.

 

I didn't know what the command wipefs was, this is the llnk and info as to what this is for anyone else:

 

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/wipefs.8.html

 

wipefs(8) — Linux manual page

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | ENVIRONMENT | EXAMPLES | AUTHORS | SEE ALSO | REPORTING BUGS | AVAILABILITY

WIPEFS(8) System Administration WIPEFS(8)

NAME         top

wipefs - wipe a signature from a device

SYNOPSIS         top

wipefs [options] device... wipefs [--backup] -o offset device... wipefs [--backup] -a device...

DESCRIPTION         top

wipefs can erase filesystem, raid or partition-table signatures (magic strings) from the specified device to make the signatures invisible for libblkid. wipefs does not erase the filesystem itself nor any other data from the device. When used without any options, wipefs lists all visible filesystems and the offsets of their basic signatures. The default output is subject to change. So whenever possible, you should avoid using default outputs in your scripts. Always explicitly define expected columns by using --output columns-list in environments where a stable output is required. wipefs calls the BLKRRPART ioctl when it has erased a partition-table signature to inform the kernel about the change. The ioctl is called as the last step and when all specified signatures from all specified devices are already erased. This feature can be used to wipe content on partitions devices as well as partition table on a disk device, for example by wipefs -a /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc2 /dev/sdc. Note that some filesystems and some partition tables store more magic strings on the device (e.g., FAT, ZFS, GPT). The wipefs command (since v2.31) lists all the offset where a magic strings have been detected. When option -a is used, all magic strings that are visible for libblkid(3) are erased. In this case the wipefs scans the device again after each modification (erase) until no magic string is found. Note that by default wipefs does not erase nested partition tables on non-whole disk devices. For this the option --force is required.

OPTIONS         top

-a, --all Erase all available signatures. The set of erased signatures can be restricted with the -t option. -b, --backup Create a signature backup to the file $HOME/wipefs-<devname>-<offset>.bak. For more details see the EXAMPLE section. -f, --force Force erasure, even if the filesystem is mounted. This is required in order to erase a partition-table signature on a block device. -J, --json Use JSON output format. --lock[=mode] Use exclusive BSD lock for device or file it operates. The optional argument mode can be yes, no (or 1 and 0) or nonblock. If the mode argument is omitted, it defaults to "yes". This option overwrites environment variable $LOCK_BLOCK_DEVICE. The default is not to use any lock at all, but it’s recommended to avoid collisions with udevd or other tools. -i, --noheadings Do not print a header line. -O, --output list Specify which output columns to print. Use --help to get a list of all supported columns. -n, --no-act Causes everything to be done except for the write(2) call. -o, --offset offset Specify the location (in bytes) of the signature which should be erased from the device. The offset number may include a "0x" prefix; then the number will be interpreted as a hex value. It is possible to specify multiple -o options. The offset argument may be followed by the multiplicative suffixes KiB (=1024), MiB (=1024*1024), and so on for GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB, ZiB and YiB (the "iB" is optional, e.g., "K" has the same meaning as "KiB"), or the suffixes KB (=1000), MB (=1000*1000), and so on for GB, TB, PB, EB, ZB and YB. -p, --parsable Print out in parsable instead of printable format. Encode all potentially unsafe characters of a string to the corresponding hex value prefixed by '\x'. -q, --quiet Suppress any messages after a successful signature wipe. -t, --types list Limit the set of printed or erased signatures. More than one type may be specified in a comma-separated list. The list or individual types can be prefixed with 'no' to specify the types on which no action should be taken. For more details see mount(8). -h, --help Display help text and exit. -V, --version Print version and exit.

ENVIRONMENT         top

LIBBLKID_DEBUG=all enables libblkid(3) debug output. LOCK_BLOCK_DEVICE=<mode> use exclusive BSD lock. The mode is "1" or "0". See --lock for more details.

EXAMPLES         top

wipefs /dev/sda* Prints information about sda and all partitions on sda. wipefs --all --backup /dev/sdb Erases all signatures from the device /dev/sdb and creates a signature backup file ~/wipefs-sdb-<offset>.bak for each signature. dd if=~/wipefs-sdb-0x00000438.bak of=/dev/sdb seek=$((0x00000438)) bs=1 conv=notrunc Restores an ext2 signature from the backup file ~/wipefs-sdb-0x00000438.bak.

AUTHORS         top

Karel Zak <[email protected]>

SEE ALSO         top

blkid(8), findfs(8)

REPORTING BUGS         top

For bug reports, use the issue tracker at https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues.

AVAILABILITY         top

The wipefs command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>. This page is part of the util-linux (a random collection of Linux utilities) project. Information about the project can be found at 〈https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/〉. If you have a bug report for this manual page, send it to [email protected]. This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository 〈git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git〉 on 2023-12-22. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the repository was 2023-12-14.) If you discover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to [email protected] util-linux 2.39.594-1e0ad 2023-07-19 WIPEFS(8)

[Aidan13]

2 hours ago, Vr2Io said:

You can use command line

 

wipefs -a /dev/devX to remove all partition.

The wipefs did not work. This command would not recognize my unassigned, unmountable drive.

 

What did work is going to the little setting wheel way right of the Unassigned Disc panel, select the tiny settings wheel and this will open to a Common Setting page where you Enable Destructive mode.  Then go back to the Unassigned Disc panel, select the drive you need to format and there will be a tiny icon at the end of the drive identification select this and you will be able to clear and format drive.

 

Tim N

[Vr2Io]

Sorry typo the command line, it is

 

wipefs -a /dev/sdX

 

X is the drive letter

 

The UD / Unraid GUI method also work, bu CLI much more easy.

Edited January 28 by Vr2Io