Hi guys,

 

I added a new data drive and was able to clear it no problem, but for some reason it will not format. I've even tried a reboot and the result is the same, the drive sits unformatted even after I press the format button. It says "formatting", but when I refresh, it back in unformatted state. Note that I have not modified any files on the flash. Below is a snipet of the syslog where I believe it gets hung up (disk 8 is my new drive):

 

Jul  3 08:42:22 Storage_Server1 emhttp: shcmd (47): mkreiserfs -q /dev/md8 2>&1 | logger

Jul  3 08:42:22 Storage_Server1 logger: sh: mkreiserfs: command not found

Jul  3 08:42:23 Storage_Server1 emhttp: shcmd (48): mkdir /mnt/disk8

Jul  3 08:42:23 Storage_Server1 emhttp: shcmd (49): set -o pipefail ; mount -t reiserfs -o noacl,nouser_xattr,noatime,nodiratime /dev/md8 /mnt/disk8 2>&1 | logger

Jul  3 08:42:23 Storage_Server1 logger: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/md8,

Jul  3 08:42:23 Storage_Server1 logger:        missing codepage or helper program, or other error

Jul  3 08:42:23 Storage_Server1 logger:        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try

Jul  3 08:42:23 Storage_Server1 logger:        dmesg | tail  or so

Jul  3 08:42:23 Storage_Server1 logger:

Jul  3 08:42:23 Storage_Server1 emhttp: _shcmd: shcmd (49): exit status: 32

Jul  3 08:42:23 Storage_Server1 emhttp: disk8 mount error: 32

Jul  3 08:42:23 Storage_Server1 emhttp: shcmd (50): rmdir /mnt/disk8

Jul  3 08:42:23 Storage_Server1 kernel: REISERFS warning (device md8): sh-2021 reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on md8

Looks like Tom forgot to include mkreiserfs on the new 4.5.5 release...  :'(

 

Looks like 4.5.6 will be needed. 

 

You'll probably need to go back to 4.5.4 to format a disk.

you can do this instead of downgrading for now:

 

type the following commands 4 commands.

mkdir /boot/extra

cd /boot/extra

wget http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1/slackware/a/reiserfsprogs-3.6.21-i486-1.txz

installpkg reiserfsprogs-3.6.21-i486-1.txz

 

They will download and install the package Tom apparently forgot to the new "extra" directory he is using in 4.5.5.

 

Then your format will work.  No need to reboot even, but when you do, the package will be re-installed.

 

When he releases 4.5.6 (any day now) you can remove the

/boot/extra/reiserfsprogs-3.6.21-i486-1.txz

file, as it will no longer be needed.

 

Joe L.

Thanks Joe. I did a roll back to 4.5.4 when I read your initial post. It worked with that. I'll wait for the new version. Thanks again!

@Joe L.

 

Thanks VERY much. I had 2 unRAID servers (4.5.4) for a couple of weeks and when I was putting together the third one today, since v4.5.5 came out, I decided to use it and the format just didn't work. I thought I was going crazy. Your instructions are spot on.

 

Bruce

So it looks like this version has the ability to format omitted.

 

Not really that big a deal but....

 

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE release betas then stable. It will stop this scenario happening.

 

 

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE release betas then stable. It will stop this scenario happening.

You've voiced that request so many times...  Sadly, nobody's listening.

 

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE release betas then stable. It will stop this scenario happening.

You've voiced that request so many times...  Sadly, nobody's listening.

 

How would you like me to respond to that?