So I moved my server to a new system.   I wanted to start fresh completely.

 

I had an open afternoon so I decided to do this at work.  My cubicle neighbor walked over, bumped my cubicle and stepped on my usb stick.  I had to get my license ported over to a new stick.  When I boot it up, folders like appdata, iso, etc are not readable and there are no disk shares.

 

How can I start fresh and get this back?

 

Thanks 

Attach Diagnostics to your NEXT post in this thread 

Can you be more specific?   Surely you don't mean the whole file?

Direct quote from the diagnostics link.

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Using this tool will result in a zip file being produced that can be downloaded and then attached to forum posts.

 

OK.  Attached.

 

I am running Unraid Server now on Proxmox, I did that on my last installment and wiped it out then the crunch of the usb happened..

hercules-smart-20240625-0920.zip

1 hour ago, BlackhammerTech said:

OK.  Attached.

That is not the diagnostics zip file!

hercules-diagnostics-20240626-1602.zip

Sorry, I did that previous upload remotely.  I missed that I had downloaded 2 zipped files, and sent the wrong one.

 

This is in your diagnostics from /shares/shareDisks.txt :

appdata                           shareUseCache="no"      # Share does not exist
domains                           shareUseCache="no"      # Share does not exist
isos                              shareUseCache="no"      # Share does not exist
n-s                               shareUseCache="no"      # Share does not exist
system                            shareUseCache="no"      # Share does not exist

 

This indicates that the shares have not been created on the physical disks.  If they did you would see something like this:

appdata                           shareUseCache="only"    # Share exists on cache

 

You could access the disks and generate a directory(folder) in the root of a physical drive for each share.   (EDIT:  Make sure you follow the capitalization of all the letters as Linux is case sensitive!)

 

(This probably happened because you are using the settings/configuration from an old server on completely brand-new hardware.  Most folks when they do this are moving over the data disks which already have these directories on them...)

Edited June 27, 20242 yr by Frank1940

Thanks Frank1940.  I would have thought that a new install would have created these for me.  

3 minutes ago, BlackhammerTech said:

Thanks Frank1940.  I would have thought that a new install would have created these for me.  

It does but yours was not a new install.  The existence and contents of certain files in the /config folder says that that process has already occurred. 

You might also read this as it may help you...

 

      https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/docker-management/#re-installing-docker-applications

Yes, I foolishly tried out Truenas Scale and found how much more difficult it was compared to unraid.  My Nas shares and Nextcloud worked perfect.   Truenas always had permission errors.  This is my third Unraid install as I increased my drive size and changed physical servers.  I thought that moving the license to a new usb stick would trigger a clean install.  I am just missing it somewhere.  I will do what you said and manually make those if I don't find what I am after.  Thank you for the help.

 

The reason diagnostics shows those shares do not exist is because the array is not started, and therefore no shares existed at the time the diagnostics were taken.

 

Start the array and post new diagnostics.

I have wiped out completely that set up.  I now have the same issue.  Do I have to wait until the parity sync is done to create /mnt/user/appdata?

 

The default shares are created when you enable Docker and/or VM Manager.

 

https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/shares/user-shares/#default-shares

Array is started.   Went to Settings, Docker, Changed from No to Yes to start Docker.    I get the error message /mnt/user/system/docker.img  "Path does not exist"   /mnt/user/appdata/  "Path does not exist"

 

 

Are the disks formatted? If they aren't the default shares cannot be created.

Post new diagnostics

I started all over, including the reformatting the USB drive.  Installed the array, then took it off line.  Removed the drives and formatted them using Unassigned Devices.  Put the drives back, started the array and all of the shares are there now.

 

On 6/28/2024 at 2:44 PM, BlackhammerTech said:

Removed the drives and formatted them using Unassigned Devices.

No need to format disks with Unassigned Devices.

 

Formatting drives after you assign them is the usual way, and the only way to get a new drive into the array and formatted without rebuilding parity.

 

https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/storage-management/#data-disks