Disk dropped from array now showing as unformatted


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I have a disk that has been ejected from the array and is now showing as an unassigned, unformatted disk.

 

After starting the array in maintenance mode I've run an Fsck check with the following outcome:

 

Will read-only check consistency of the filesystem on /dev/sdq1

Will put log info to 'stdout'

 

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

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reiserfsck --check started at Mon May 23 12:15:51 2016

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Replaying journal: Done.

Reiserfs journal '/dev/sdq1' 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 740460

        Internal nodes 4405

        Directories 169

        Other files 3080

        Data block pointers 748915833 (514457 of them are zero)

        Safe links 0

 

Following that I ran fdisk -lu /dev/sdq and got the following output:

 

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdq'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.

 

 

Disk /dev/sdq: 4000.8 GB, 4000787030016 bytes

256 heads, 63 sectors/track, 484501 cylinders, total 7814037168 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/sdq1              1  4294967295  2147483647+  ee  GPT

Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.

 

From my extremely limited knowledge it looks like the data on this disk is good but something has happened to the formatting causing unRAID to think the disk is unformatted.

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

Diagnostic file is attached

tower-diagnostics-20160523-1609.zip

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I'm going to leave the actual answer to somebody smarter than myself, but I will point out one thing:

 

When running file system checks, always refer to the device as /dev/mdX (X = drive #) as this keeps the parity information valid at all times whereas referring to them as /dev/sdX will invalidate the parity information

 

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The emulated disk11 is the one showing unmountable, you checked fs for actual disk11, which is was dropped from the array with good reason:

 

Device Model:     WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0
Serial Number:    WD-WCC4E1719266
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       2

 

-check fs for /dev/md11

-hopefully it will mount

-rebuild disk11 to a new spare

-if needed mount old disk11 outside the array and compare data to the rebuilt one

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The emulated disk11 is the one showing unmountable, you checked fs for actual disk11, which is was dropped from the array with good reason:

 

Device Model:     WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0
Serial Number:    WD-WCC4E1719266
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       2

 

-check fs for /dev/md11

-hopefully it will mount

-rebuild disk11 to a new spare

-if needed mount old disk11 outside the array and compare data to the rebuilt one

Be sure to do this in the order johnnie gave. If you just jump ahead to rebuilding the disk you will rebuild an unmountable disk.
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