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Trying to move files from Readynas 214 Drives to Unraid Using Unassigned Devices - drives won't mount

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Hi guys. I am finally moving to Unraid from a Netgear RN214. I have watched multiple youtube videos. Here's my issue. I have photos and movies saved on to sata drives that were in a Raid 1. I tried mounting one of the drives and it would not mount. So I searched around and again and AI advised 2 mount both drives. So both drives were connected to my array physically and still the same problem. The syslog says:

unassigned.devices: Mount of 'sdc1' failed: 'mount: /mnt/disks/50333c54:0: unknown filesystem type

What can I do to make it mount?

Solved by molebdynum

  • Community Expert

Do you know what filesystem?

  • Author

I believe it is BTRFS.

  • Community Expert

Can you assign them to a new pool instead of using Unassigned Devices? Might have to New Config.

  • Author

I placed them in a pool of devices. When the array is started it says they are unmountable. When you say New config, what do I have to do to access them? So I want them to be accepted so I can access the data and move the data to the array. Is it possible to add the drives without formatting them first obviously keeping the data?

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Edited by molebdynum
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  • Community Expert

Looks like you did it correctly, must be something about them that Unraid doesn't recognize.

What do you get from command line with this?

fdisk -l /dev/sdc

  • Author

root@DBUnraid:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdc

Disk /dev/sdc: 2.73 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors

Disk model: WDC WD30EZRX-00D

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disklabel type: gpt

Disk identifier: B1F77597-3FD8-497B-849F-7366AE4BF400

Device Start End Sectors Size Type

/dev/sdc1 64 8388671 8388608 4G Linux RAID

/dev/sdc2 8388672 9437247 1048576 512M Linux RAID

/dev/sdc3 9437248 5860533119 5851095872 2.7T Linux RAID

root@DBUnraid:~#

  • Community Expert

Unraid doesn't support the standard Linux MD RAID driver, you should be able to mount them in a Linux VM if you need to copy the data.

  • Author

Thanks I will try running a Ubuntu VM.

  • Author

Ok so I have a VM running Ubuntu. How do I get the VM to interact with the drives I have as pool devices in my unraid server?

  • Community Expert

They must be unassigned from the array or a pool and passed through to the VM. Make sure you use /dev/disk/by-id/ instead of /dev/sdX since the latter can change

  • 2 weeks later...
  • Author
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Thank you all for your replies. I ended up just connecting the drive back to the WD board. It turns out there is hardware encryption with board in the external drive. As soon as I attached it back and connected via usb3.0 it was able to mount. The speed is painfully slow but I was able to copy the data over.

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