September 21, 201312 yr Hi guys, my unRaid showed up a drive with a red bubble due to too many bad blocks (the official name of the field is "pending sector count" or something in SMART). However I decided to replace the 2TB disk and got a bigger one. First I plugged out the almost-broken disk, so that it won't crash completely, and after a few days - when the new disk arrived - I started the rebuild process, which went trough without errors. However the disk is now shown as "unformatted" and fdisk shows that there is only one partition on the disk of the type "GPT" (whatever this is). And obviously I can't access my data that was on the broken disk. What should I do right now?! I really thought the parity thing would work better I could copy over the data from the broken drive, some files might be corrupted now, but most of it should be fine..
September 21, 201312 yr No! Don't trust the broken disk. Did you preclear the new disk? I'd say preclear and rebuild on it and it should work fine.
September 21, 201312 yr In unRAID unformatted just means that the disk cannot be mounted - not that it is really unformatted. The failure to mount may be because of file system corruption. A way to fix this is to stop the array, start it in Maintenance mode and then from a telnet/console session run the command reiserfsck /dev/md2
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