February 24, 20251 yr Pretty much as per the title - on Version 7.0.0 - I had a disk that redballed, so I swapped it out for a brand new disk. The disk was recognised and all looked good in the GUI so I started a data rebuild onto the new disk. All looked good. I rebooted after the data rebuild and when the system came back online, the disk is now listed as unmountable - wrong or no file system. Not sure what my options are now - as I've already done the data rebuild, then I presume the best thing I can do is format the new disk to add it to the array and extract any data that is of interest from the failed disk (the majority of the data is, I believe, just old films and TV programmes - nothing that I need to get excited about) and copy it over to the newly formatted disk...Or is there some other way I can rebuild the disk?
February 24, 20251 yr Community Expert Solution 5 minutes ago, aspdend2023 said: Not sure what my options are now Best option is to do a Check Filesystem on the rebuilt disk as it may recover everything. Was the emulated disk showing as unmountable before you started the rebuild? If so then it being unmountable afterwards is expected as a rebuild only clears a disabled status - not an unmountable status.
February 24, 20251 yr Author 1 minute ago, itimpi said: Best option is to do a Check Filesystem on the rebuilt disk as it may recover everything. Was the emulated disk showing as unmountable before you started the rebuild? If so then it being unmountable afterwards is expected as a rebuild only clears a disabled status - not an unmountable status. Hi - no, the disk wasn't shown as unmountable when I installed it. I've had a few redballed in my time and this one looked exactly the same as the previous ones (those rebuilds all went perfectly fine) I'll try the check filesystem and report back
February 24, 20251 yr Author 16 minutes ago, itimpi said: Best option is to do a Check Filesystem on the rebuilt disk as it may recover everything. Was the emulated disk showing as unmountable before you started the rebuild? If so then it being unmountable afterwards is expected as a rebuild only clears a disabled status - not an unmountable status. Excellent - that seems to have fixed it - doing the check filesystem flagged up some errors which I told it to fix and it seems to have done the trick! Thank you very much - that's a relief...now to do a few more reboots and make sure everything is working properly and I'll be happy again!
February 24, 20251 yr Community Expert Just now, aspdend2023 said: Excellent - that seems to have fixed it - doing the check filesystem flagged up some errors which I told it to fix and it seems to have done the trick! Thank you very much - that's a relief...now to do a few more reboots and make sure everything is working properly and I'll be happy again! Great. look to see if you now have a lost+found folder on the drive. That is where the repair process would put any files/folders for which it could not find the directory entry to give them the correct name. Not having the lost+found folder is always a good sign that the repair process did not have any problems fixing things.
February 24, 20251 yr Author 6 minutes ago, itimpi said: Great. look to see if you now have a lost+found folder on the drive. That is where the repair process would put any files/folders for which it could not find the directory entry to give them the correct name. Not having the lost+found folder is always a good sign that the repair process did not have any problems fixing things. There is a lost + found folder - seems to be about 12 items in there so I will have a look and see if I can figure out what they are...
February 24, 20251 yr Community Expert Just now, aspdend2023 said: There is a lost + found folder - seems to be about 12 items in there so I will have a look and see if I can figure out what they are... These need manually sorting out unfortunately. The Linux ‘file’ command can be useful for finding out the file type (and thus assigning an appropriate file extension) to help with checking the content.
February 24, 20251 yr Author 4 minutes ago, itimpi said: These need manually sorting out unfortunately. The Linux ‘file’ command can be useful for finding out the file type (and thus assigning an appropriate file extension) to help with checking the content. Yes, at least there are only a few - I believe a couple are large files (probably video files, mkv type) - the other ones will take some sifting, but its a damn sight easier than having to extract all the data from the failed disk and copying it over!
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