January 14, 20188 yr I upgraded my parity drive, it was precleared.. And rebuild all good. then i addd my old parity drive to the data pool. system said it had to be cleared , so i did... then afte that i assigned it... And powered my system down. today i turned it on and my system said its an unmountable drive.. when i look into main it says i should format so i did and then it was in my pool but with filesystem xfs.. i wanted it to be the same as all my other drives.. Reiserfs.. to change it i have to stop the array, so i did and changed.. Restarted my array and again.. disk is unmountable... What is wrong?
January 14, 20188 yr If you changed the disk's filesystem to reiserfs you need to format that disk again. P.S. reiserfs is not recommended any longer, it's a dead filesystem with several issues.
January 14, 20188 yr Author Ah ok did reformat and now its ok.. but i read you say reiserfs is not recommended .. What is then?
January 14, 20188 yr Users on unRAID6 are strongly recommended to change from RFS to XFS. RFS has no longer active development and is known to cause issues on unRAID6.
January 14, 20188 yr Author aha ok will read it now i clicked to invoke the mover but it doesnt, i get this warning whats wrong
January 14, 20188 yr Author Damn new drive was on xfs first... it should have left it alone and move my data from other disks and put those disks to xfs too? How should i move stuff? using midnight commander?
January 14, 20188 yr The most straightforward approach is: 1. Have an empty disk available, formatted in XFS (might need to move files off to make it empty and reformat) 2. COPY from a disk to this empty disk 3. Reformat the disk in step 2 to XFS (it now becomes empty) 4. Repeat steps 2 & 3 with the next disk until all done You can use MC to do the copying. If you do then ensure you start the copy process in the background, this will allow MC to continue copying when the CLI session is stopped.
January 14, 20188 yr Author Can you help me with that? i havent got a monitor attached to my server.. So i turn on a laptop and then use putty to telnet in. Once im in, i start mc and start copying , however if i close putty, copying is stopped... i have done this before but cant remember how.. i need to use "screen" inside puty?
January 14, 20188 yr Author Aha that works? I can close puty then? Cool Will test it. i shouldnt use move? F8?
January 14, 20188 yr Author MMmm doesnt work.. As soon as i close puty on my laptop, the copying stops, although i clicked "background" in mc ... in that puty session on my laptop I suppose that only works if i run mc, straight on the server...
January 14, 20188 yr 3 minutes ago, skank said: i shouldnt use move? F8? No. Move is much slower, as it has to delete the source files which causes a write to the source disk as well as writes to the destination, causing the parity disk to thrash back and forth between the two addresses, plus ReiserFS can take a long time to delete stuff anyway. Copy is much better, you are going to be erasing the source disk quickly and easily when you format it, plus, you can verify that the copy was done correctly before you format, where if you move you just have to trust it worked.
January 14, 20188 yr Author ok good to know thx.. only thin left is able to do it from my laptop as soon as i exit puty, it stops copying although i clicked on "background" in mc (inside my puty session)
January 14, 20188 yr 8 minutes ago, skank said: MMmm doesnt work.. As soon as i close puty on my laptop, the copying stops, although i clicked "background" in mc ... in that puty session on my laptop I suppose that only works if i run mc, straight on the server... No, when you click on backgroud, MC creates a new background process which does the copying and continues when putty is closed.
January 14, 20188 yr Don't know either. I've used MC and background copying in the past to convert my array. Took about 10 days and surely putty wasn't opened all that time.
January 14, 20188 yr Author Is there any other way to copy files from disk to disk, without stopping copying when i disconnect?
January 14, 20188 yr Author 29 minutes ago, bonienl said: Don't know either. I've used MC and background copying in the past to convert my array. Took about 10 days and surely putty wasn't opened all that time. Can you tell me step by step how to do it? you were using putty on another computer right?
January 14, 20188 yr 19 minutes ago, skank said: Is there any other way to copy files from disk to disk, without stopping copying when i disconnect? use screen. see here for example, Step #6 how to use screen: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Configuration_Tutorial#Preclearing_With_Screen
January 14, 20188 yr Author Eureka! Its copying ! Using puty and "screen" Once finished, how can i compare so i'm sure its good?
January 14, 20188 yr Just made a test and all is working fine (start background copy + terminate putty). Since you have another working solution, just keep using that.
January 14, 20188 yr Author yes thx, other question, once i made a screen, how can i close it? By typing exit, i leave the screen open , how do i "delete" it?
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