bbyf16 Posted February 9, 2018 Posted February 9, 2018 Hi guys, needed a bit of assistance here. I've got a new usb drive and thought I'd replace my old usb. So I go over to the network share and go to flash and notice that all the folders are empty with a file size of 0. I go into web ui and the flash size is still showing as 163mb used out of 16gb but when I go into the drive, there's an error line that there is no such file or folder. I'm not sure what happened or when it happened. I took a screenshot of the main page with drive assignments. I'm guessing the usb drive failed? How do I go about setting up my new usb drive without any complications or will I have to set up everything all over again, such as the dockers? Thanks for any help you can provide.
SSD Posted February 9, 2018 Posted February 9, 2018 You may have taken a screenshot but you did not post it. Might want to post that. The flash share should show the files on the share. Not sure why they would all show as zero length. You might use putty and run the command: ls -la /boot That should show you the files on the flash drive. See if the sizes look correct. It may be that a reboot would fix the issue and the Samba share would work properly.
bbyf16 Posted February 9, 2018 Author Posted February 9, 2018 On 2/9/2018 at 10:45 AM, SSD said: You may have taken a screenshot but you did not post it. Might want to post that. The flash share should show the files on the share. Not sure why they would all show as zero length. You might use putty and run the command: ls -la /boot That should show you the files on the flash drive. See if the sizes look correct. It may be that a reboot would fix the issue and the Samba share would work properly. 1
SSD Posted February 9, 2018 Posted February 9, 2018 Looks to me like the flash drive has dropped offline. A reboot would likely bring it back. Did you, by chance, unplug it and plug it back in? Before rebooting suggest grabbing a diagnostics file. (Tools -> Diagnostics)
bbyf16 Posted February 9, 2018 Author Posted February 9, 2018 I haven't unplugged it and put it back in. It's been on my mind to back up the drive and shift over to a new one for a while now, finally thought I'd do it today and this happened. Going to restart now. Have pulled the diagnostics zip.
bbyf16 Posted February 9, 2018 Author Posted February 9, 2018 38 minutes ago, SSD said: Looks to me like the flash drive has dropped offline. A reboot would likely bring it back. Did you, by chance, unplug it and plug it back in? Before rebooting suggest grabbing a diagnostics file. (Tools -> Diagnostics) Everything is back to normal after the reboot. If I want to use a new drive, whats the best way of shifting everything over seamlessly?
SSD Posted February 9, 2018 Posted February 9, 2018 This is probably documented somewhere, but here is what I would recommend. Assuming you are on the latest version. Always a good idea to have a screenshot of the current drive assignments in case something goes wrong. Follow instructions for creating a new stick as a trial. Do this on a Workstation. Delete the "config" directory from the new stick you just created. Stop your array. Do not power down. Copy the "config" directory from the current flash (e.g., //tower/flash) over the network to the new flash. (Again, make sure array is stopped when you do this copy - otherwise a parity check will ensue when you boot with the new stick). If you have done tweaks to your boot settings (e.g., adding boot options to support passthrough), you should also copy the "syslinux/syslinux.cfg" file from the old flash to the /syslinux directory on the new usb stick. That file contains those settings. If there are any files you have copied over manually that you want to keep - copy those over as well. Power down the server. Swap the USB sticks. Power up. When you boot into unRAID, it will tell you that the key file does not match the stick you are using. There will be an option to replace the old stick with this new one, and it will automatically download a new .key file for your new USB stick, and blacklist your old key. You can keep the old stick as a backup or reformatted and used for other purposes.
SSD Posted February 9, 2018 Posted February 9, 2018 3 minutes ago, bbyf16 said: thanks for the quick support! Do not format the old USB stick ... at least not yet. If you find something didn't copy over, you will have it on that stick.
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