I have a working 5.0 setup and the machine is currently running.  Below is the a link that I found to view flash drive permissions.  My output is as follows:

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=22677.0

 

ls -al /boot

total 4

drwxrwxrwx  9 root root 4096 2013-02-17 09:49 ./

drwxr-xr-x 16 root root    0 2013-10-26 15:31 ../

 

Other posts all had the boot drive showing the standard unraid folders.  My gut is telling me that I didn't setup vbox or simple features correctly (never got it working and had to stop troubleshooting for a few weeks) and that it was reading and writing heavily from the flash drive.  Looking at the main page my read counts on flash = 4,294,967,296 and my write counts = 17,314,547,890 which are much higher than I'd seen on this drive with an always on machine for the last ~5 years.  Is there anyway to confirm that my flash drive is dead?  And if so, recommended steps on how to proceed to minimize the risk of losing data?

 

Thanks

Shutdown the server using the webGUI and run check disk on the flash in a PC or Mac.

That worked thanks.