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[SOLVED] Unformated Data Drive

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Hello,

 

I'm really new to Unraid so keep your patient... :)

I installed a Unraid System (5.04) with 2 drives: 1 WD RED 1 TB and 1 WD 250 GB

I configured all and start transfer all my data to the NAS.

 

Today i installed one WD green 1 TB as a Parity drive. After the reboot the system was OK and started to build the parity.

I them rebooted the system again for cable management and after it startup again the WD Red (with Data) was missing. It was the power cable disconnected.

I solved the problem with the cable but now I get that drive "Unformated" in the system.

 

I ran Reiserfsck and the drive is ok: See below the report.

How can I recover this drive ?

 

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root@Tower:~# reiserfsck --check /dev/sdb1                                                                 

reiserfsck 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com)

 

*************************************************************

** If you are using the latest reiserfsprogs and  it fails **

** please  email bug reports to [email protected], **

** providing  as  much  information  as  possible --  your **

** hardware,  kernel,  patches,  settings,  all reiserfsck **

** messages  (including version),  the reiserfsck logfile, **

** check  the  syslog file  for  any  related information. **

** If you would like advice on using this program, support **

** is available  for $25 at  www.namesys.com/support.html. **

*************************************************************

 

Will read-only check consistency of the filesystem on /dev/sdb1

Will put log info to 'stdout'

 

Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do):Yes

###########

reiserfsck --check started at Sat Jan 11 14:32:27 2014

###########

Replaying journal: Trans replayed: mountid 12, transid 96559, desc 1958, len 1, commit 1960, next trans offset 1943

Trans replayed: mountid 12, transid 96560, desc 1961, len 1, commit 1963, next trans offset 1946

Trans replayed: mountid 12, transid 96561, desc 1964, len 7, commit 1972, next trans offset 1955

Trans replayed: mountid 12, transid 96562, desc 1973, len 8, commit 1982, next trans offset 1965

Trans replayed: mountid 12, transid 96563, desc 1983, len 8, commit 1992, next trans offset 1975

Trans replayed: mountid 12, transid 96564, desc 1993, len 7, commit 2001, next trans offset 1984

Replaying journal: Done.                                                       

Reiserfs journal '/dev/sdb1' in blocks [18..8211]: 6 transactions replayed

Checking internal tree.. finished                               

Comparing bitmaps..finished

Checking Semantic tree:

finished                                                                     

No corruptions found

There are on the filesystem:

Leaves 43532

Internal nodes 269

Directories 26

Other files 12399

Data block pointers 40996945 (256 of them are zero)

Safe links 0

###########

reiserfsck finished at Sat Jan 11 14:38:32 2014

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After you installed the new Parity drive, you said 'it started to build the parity'.

Did that finish before you rebooted? 

Attach a syslog. See SYSYEM LOG in my sig.

  • Author

Nop, the parity was at about 5%..... :(

 

My sysLog in attachement...

 

Thank You all!

SysLog.txt

  • Author

I run the reiserfs checkup and “--rebuild-sb option” and the system seems ok now.

 

Reiserfs was done according to:

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=1483

 

Then the new re-run of checkup give me:

 

root@Tower:~# reiserfsck --check /dev/sdb

reiserfsck 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com)

 

*************************************************************

** If you are using the latest reiserfsprogs and  it fails **

** please  email bug reports to [email protected], **

** providing  as  much  information  as  possible --  your **

** hardware,  kernel,  patches,  settings,  all reiserfsck **

** messages  (including version),  the reiserfsck logfile, **

** check  the  syslog file  for  any  related information. **

** If you would like advice on using this program, support **

** is available  for $25 at  www.namesys.com/support.html. **

*************************************************************

 

Will read-only check consistency of the filesystem on /dev/sdb

Will put log info to 'stdout'

 

Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do):Yes

###########

reiserfsck --check started at Sat Jan 11 22:57:38 2014

###########

Replaying journal: Done.

Reiserfs journal '/dev/sdb' in blocks [18..8211]: 0 transactions replayed

Checking internal tree.. finished                               

Comparing bitmaps..finished

Checking Semantic tree:

finished                                                                     

No corruptions found

There are on the filesystem:

Leaves 28338

Internal nodes 190

Directories 29

Other files 11677

Data block pointers 25809355 (3081306 of them are zero)

Safe links 0

###########

reiserfsck finished at Sat Jan 11 22:57:55 2014

----------------

 

Then when I re-start the Array the drive still appear unformatted.

Any ideas ?

The file system is on the first partition,YOU  built a superblock on the raw drive (/dev/sdb  instead of the correct /dev/sdb1 )

Additionally... you should NOT be running reiserfsck on the /dev/sdX devices at all, as any fixes made invalidated parity as it did not get updated in sync.

 

You should have run reiserfsck on the /dev/mdX device corresponding to your disk.

 

So, you need to run

reiserfsck on the /dev/sdb1 device, you'll  probably need to re-build the superblock once more, but let it tell you what to do.

Then, since parity is now incorrect, get it back in sync by running a correcting parity check.

Then, forget the /dev/sdX devices exist and always future perform file-system repairs on the /dev/mdX devices.

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Thank you for your help Joe L.,

 

I ran "reiserfsck --check /dev/sdd1"

The system told me to run "--rebuild-tree", so I did.

 

After i run again the --check and the system told me everything is ok:

I tried to build the array again, but the drive still says unformatted

 

Then I tried: reiserfsck --rebuild-sd /dev/sdd1, but I get the report that is ok:

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root@Tower:~# reiserfsck --rebuild-sb /dev/sdd1

reiserfsck 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com)

 

*************************************************************

** If you are using the latest reiserfsprogs and  it fails **

** please  email bug reports to [email protected], **

** providing  as  much  information  as  possible --  your **

** hardware,  kernel,  patches,  settings,  all reiserfsck **

** messages  (including version),  the reiserfsck logfile, **

** check  the  syslog file  for  any  related information. **

** If you would like advice on using this program, support **

** is available  for $25 at  www.namesys.com/support.html. **

*************************************************************

 

Will check superblock and rebuild it if needed

Will put log info to 'stdout'

 

Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do):Yes

Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x831 of format 3.6 with standard journal

Count of blocks on the device: 244190624

Number of bitmaps: 7453

Blocksize: 4096

Free blocks (count of blocks - used [journal, bitmaps, data, reserved] blocks): 204065780

Root block: 8384

Filesystem is clean

Tree height: 5

Hash function used to sort names: "r5"

Objectid map size 20, max 972

Journal parameters:

Device [0x0]

Magic [0x2d7396f5]

Size 8193 blocks (including 1 for journal header) (first block 18)

Max transaction length 1024 blocks

Max batch size 900 blocks

Max commit age 30

Blocks reserved by journal: 0

Fs state field: 0x0:

sb_version: 2

inode generation number: 300

UUID: 14932c7c-4229-4690-9ab1-62af3d9c5620

LABEL:

Set flags in SB:

ATTRIBUTES CLEAN

Mount count: 1

Maximum mount count: 30

Last fsck run: Sun Jan 12 11:55:50 2014

Check interval in days: 180

 

Super block seems to be correct

-------------------------------------------

 

What am I doing wrong ?

 

In maintenance mode I have the option for "Rebuild will start Data-Rebuild". Should I gave that option a try? 

 

 

post a syslog.  You are basically doing things that will harm your ability to recover your data by running commands blindly.

 

An "un-formatted" disk, to unRAID, is ANY disk whose first partition cannot be mounted as a reiserfs files system (for ANY reason)

Attempting a fix, without knowing the reason the "mount" command failed, is a mistake.

 

It could be file-system corruption, or more likely, you've overwritten (probably) the MBR of the disk by running the rebuild-sb on the raw drive.

 

Post a syslog.

Post the output of

fdisk -lu /dev/sdX

 

 

  • Author

Here it is...

 

root@Tower:~# fdisk -lu /dev/sdd                                                                                                                   

 

Disk /dev/sdd: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes

1 heads, 63 sectors/track, 31008336 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

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

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

Disk identifier: 0x00000000

 

  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sdd1              64  1953525167  976762552  83  Linux

Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.

root@Tower:~#

SysLog_2.txt

  • Author

What does it mean that partition 1 doesnt end on cylinder boundary ?

Doing a search on Google this seems not to be the problem...

Any ideas on how to fix the "unformatted drive" ?

It seams a very often problem on Unraid but I can't find a straight answer....

 

Thanks again for all that tried to help.

 

 

André Palmela

Azeitão - Portugal

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Today I started my server with an Ubuntu distro and I can access all my data.

The question remains: why is Unraid reporting this drive as unformated?

My problem is solved but I think that developers should investigate this further....

 

 

André Palmela

Azeitão - Portugal

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