Following the clearing of a new 300GIG Seagate, the Unraid was in the process of formating this drive when the power Co. shutoff the power for a few minutes.

 

Rebooted the unraid, and it automaticaly started a parity check.

 

Question:

Will I need to "re-format" the drive?

If the parity check comes back clear, will that indicate that the drive is ready to be used? or will it be a false positive, and I should still re-format that drive to be safe.

 

PS> I have no idea how to force unraid to format the drive. So if any of you can tell me the comand line I would appreciate it.

 

Thanks for the help.

 

Bernard

If the disk came back "ok" then it's probably fine.  If you want to check it, then you can invoke the file system check command:

1. Determine the device assigned to this disk (look on the Devices page).  The device identifer will be of the form "/dev/hdb".

2. Append a "1" to the end of the device identifer and type this command:

 

  reiserfsck <identifier>

 

(substitute the proper device identifer for "<identifier>")

 

3. When prompted, answer "Yes".  The check routine in this case should be less than a minute.

 

There is a way to force a re-format which I can walk you through if all else fails (kinda dangerous because if you type the wrong thing it could erase the wrong disk).  We are adding additional disk utililties to the Management Utility to let you easily run a file system check and/or force reformat, among other functions.