/mnt/user is completely empty.

I created the 7.1.4 image following the following instructions: https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/getting-started/manual-install-method/

root@Tower:/mnt/user# df -hT
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs         rootfs     16G  110M   16G   1% /
tmpfs          tmpfs     128M  916K  128M   1% /run
/dev/sda1      vfat       32G  795M   32G   3% /boot
overlay        overlay    16G  110M   16G   1% /usr
overlay        overlay    16G  110M   16G   1% /lib
tmpfs          tmpfs     128M  196K  128M   1% /var/log
devtmpfs       devtmpfs  8.0M     0  8.0M   0% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs      16G     0   16G   0% /dev/shm
efivarfs       efivarfs  128K   32K   92K  26% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
root@Tower:/mnt/user# cat /etc/fstab
tmpfs           /dev/shm        tmpfs   defaults        0       0
hugetlbfs       /hugetlbfs      hugetlbfs       defaults        0       0
root@Tower:/mnt/user#

Your df screenshot seems to indicate you don't have any mounted storage.

Attach Diagnostics ZIP to your NEXT post in this thread.

Please find attached.

Thank you,

- Feto

tower-diagnostics-20250827-1142.zip

1 hour ago, trurl said:

Your df screenshot seems to indicate you don't have any mounted storage.

And your diagnostics confirms this. In fact, you have only 1 nvme and you haven't assigned it. So, there is no storage for user shares to exist on.

Unraid v7 allows you to create pools without having an array. Create a pool for your nvme, and let Unraid format it so Unraid will have a place to store libvirt.img.

https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/storage-management/#why-use-a-pool

Ah, I see... I thought the USB installation would have anything it needed to have a running system. I'll give this a shot. Thanks!

1 hour ago, Feto said:

Ah, I see... I thought the USB installation would have anything it needed to have a running system. I'll give this a shot. Thanks!

You Do have a running system - just one with no storage 😊

I've spent some time trying to use the NVMe in the system, which I had been using for other things, including installing another OS for a different PoC, and unraid is refusing to use it, saying it's bad. I tried to post a comment with a snip and a file, but it wasn't posting. Trying a reply with only text now.

Here is the diagnostics file.

tower-diagnostics-20250827-1437.zip

Flash drive issues:

Aug 27 14:37:51 Tower kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 16384) failed

Aug 27 14:37:51 Tower kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 16385) failed

Aug 27 14:37:51 Tower kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 16386) failed

Aug 27 14:37:51 Tower kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 16387) failed

Aug 27 14:37:51 Tower kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 16388) failed

You can try reformatting it first, but if the issues persist, you should replace it.

That's the flash drive that I'm booting from. I took it out by mistake. The drive with the problem is nvme0:

(I figured out why it wasn't posting before... it was the myriad of dots)

Phase 1 - find and verify superblock...
bad primary superblock - bad magic number !!!

attempting to find secondary superblock...
........could not find valid secondary superblock
Exiting now.

3 hours ago, Feto said:

The drive with the problem is nvme0

Did you let Unraid format it?

Reboot to clear the logs,reformat the pool, and post new diags with the array still started.

12 hours ago, trurl said:

Did you let Unraid format it?

Yes

7 hours ago, JorgeB said:

Reboot to clear the logs,reformat the pool, and post new diags with the array still started.

Will do, thank you

I must have done something wrong. I replaced the disk, and the new disk was working fine. Then I put back the original disk, and it seems to be working fine as well. Formatted as both btrfs and xfs. Thank you to everyone who responded.