In the web console one of my drives is showing up with more free space than the whole size of the drive.

"smaller bytes?" 

One of those things that make you say: "Hmmmmm".

 

Some questions if you don't mind,

1. Which unRAID software version?

2. Did you noitice if this resulted immediately after "formatting" the disk?

3. Is there any data on the disk currently?

4. Is there any data on the rest of the array (wondering if we could re-format this disk)?

1. Version 3.0 final

2. I did not notice, but its only been formatted for 2 days

3. No data on the disk

4. There is data on the rest of the array

What I'd like you to try is to run a file system check on that disk.  Here are the steps to follow:

 

1. Go to the Devices page and look at what device you assigned to that disk, for example, "/dev/hdb".

 

2. Go to the Main page and Stop the array.

 

3. From a telnet session type the following command:

 

    reiserfsck 'device'

 

where 'device' is the device assigned to that data disk, e.g.,

 

    reiserfsck /dev/hdb

 

The program will prompt you for confirmation to continue; please type 'Yes' exactly as it wants (it's case-sensitive).

 

The program will produce several lines of output which I'd be interested in seeing.  You can right-click the telnet window and then select/copy/paste the text and post back here.

 

Once this is done, you can go back to Main and restart the array.

 

Thanks!

Is this something that I should run overnight?

No, it normally won't take more than a few minutes.

I guess it did not perform the operation

 

root@Tower:~# reiserfsck /dev/hdb
reiserfsck 3.6.19 (2003 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/hdb
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_open: the reiserfs superblock cannot be found on /dev/hdb.
Failed to open the filesystem.

If the partition table has not been changed, and the partition is
valid  and  it really  contains  a reiserfs  partition,  then the
superblock  is corrupted and you need to run this utility with
--rebuild-sb.

root@Tower:~#

 

background:

this is a new hard drive, i inserted it, put a couple movies on it....and then I got the blinking red icon. i put it back in a xp machine and formatted it because unraid would not format it for me.  after this, i put it back in unraid and it formatted and looked fine, the green light is on.

Should it be safe to put data on this drive? It is reporting with a green light but I wanted to ask you first....

Sorry, add a "1" to the end of the device identifier, like this:

 

  reiserfsck /dev/hdb1

 

(The '1' means use partition 1 of the hard drive.)

Here is the output:

 

 

Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do):Yes
###########
reiserfsck --check started at Sat Dec  2 22:36:31 2006
###########
Replaying journal..
Reiserfs journal '/dev/hdb1' in blocks [18..8211]: 0 transactions replayed
Checking internal tree..finished
Comparing bitmaps..vpf-10640: The on-disk and the correct bitmaps differs.
Checking Semantic tree:
finished
2 found corruptions can be fixed when running with --fix-fixable
###########
reiserfsck finished at Sat Dec  2 22:36:52 2006
###########
root@Tower:~#

 

and then I ran:

 

root@Tower:~# reiserfsck /dev/hdb1 --fix-fixable
reiserfsck 3.6.19 (2003 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 consistency of the filesystem on /dev/hdb1
and will fix what can be fixed without --rebuild-tree
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 --fix-fixable started at Sat Dec  2 22:39:38 2006
###########
Replaying journal..
Reiserfs journal '/dev/hdb1' in blocks [18..8211]: 0 transactions replayed
Checking internal tree..finished
Comparing bitmaps..vpf-10630: The on-disk and the correct bitmaps differs. Will
be fixed later.
Checking Semantic tree:
finished
No corruptions found
There are on the filesystem:
        Leaves 1
        Internal nodes 0
        Directories 1
        Other files 0
        Data block pointers 0 (0 of them are zero)
        Safe links 0
###########
reiserfsck finished at Sat Dec  2 22:40:51 2006
###########
root@Tower:~#

 

And now my free space is less than my disk size. Thanks Tom!