September 27, 201411 yr So, I added a new 8 port SAS controller and 3 x 2TB Drives (along with a Velociraptor 300GB 10k I'm going to move my cache drive over to soon). This let me dump the awful J-Micron 2-port SAS that used to cause me to red ball - and now I can run up to 16 drives in the server instead of only 10. Strange thing is, I pre-cleared all 3 just fine, added to array, completed a parity check. Everything looks great. I started moving some files to the new drives (the existing array was 99% full) when suddenly I notice that I can't see any of them on my \\tower\media share. I then login as root, take a peak, wtf I can't see them in /mnt/user or /mnt/user0 - but they are on the /mnt/disk9-11. I stop the array, start the array, powerdown, power back up. No luck. I then proceed to modify my SHARE (which shows included ALL drives) and I notice I can't save any share configuration. I can't edit share, modify shares, etc. I can update the share settings on the individual drives though, just not on the custom ones. The system log is clean as a whistle. Ownership matches nobody:user on all folders on all 11 drives. Permissions matches 770 on all folders on all 11 drives. I'm a bit stumped... GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! Any ideas? Did I miss something simple??
September 27, 201411 yr Community Expert You might want to take the flash drive and plug it into a PC/Mac to run chkdisk. Those symptoms can often be caused by an unclean shutdown which left the flash drive in a read-only mode. You can look through the syslog to verify if this is in fact the problem as there should be a message about the flash being mounted read-only if it is. The chkdisk normally clears this.
September 27, 201411 yr Author Thanks for the idea. But the flash drive is OK and is not mounted read only. Hmm...
September 27, 201411 yr Author It was something stupid. In Share Settings, I didn't wait for the list to load (takes 5+ seconds). While digging around on the flash drive, went to share config, noticed I had only 8 disks configured. HAHA! What a waste of many hours this morning PS: I still can't add / edit shares through the GUI. Looks like I can edit the files manually and restart samba and I'm good enough for now!
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