November 17, 20196 yr Hi, Yesterday i had a hang up of unraid during a format, i realize now that the drive that was hung during format may not have completed correctly. Here's what happened I issued format Unraid hung I started unraid and issued another format, the format completed. Now the drive seems to be healthy but when looking at the used on the particular drive (10) it has more used space then other drives in the same category that didn't lock up during initial format (see screenshot below of disk 10, there's no data on disk 8,9 or 10 but during format of 10 unraid hung). I want to issue another format to disk 10 to make sure it is working correctly before i write any data to it, how can i do that? Edited November 17, 20196 yr by je82
November 17, 20196 yr If you click on the blue "Disk 10" text you'll open that disk's Settings page. One of the items is "File system type". The easiest way to format the disk is to change it to something else and then change it back again. To change it you'll need to stop the array first. When you restart the array it will be formatted, with appropriate warnings. So, stop, change file system type, start, wait for format, stop, change format type back again, start, wait for format. However, the system shouldn't hang like you described. You may well have some underlying problem that needs fixing.
November 17, 20196 yr Author 19 minutes ago, John_M said: However, the system shouldn't hang like you described. You may well have some underlying problem that needs fixing. I know, i am still trying to figure out why it hung, but the only culprit was i added 3 plugins to my arsenal and then the system locked up, i uninstalled these plugins and no problems since, but still not sure. I have logserver enabled now so if it happens again i will at least know whats up. Thanks for the trick on how to trigger unraid to format it.
November 18, 20196 yr Author On 11/17/2019 at 4:18 PM, John_M said: You're welcome. Post your diagnostics if it happens again and you need help. This 55.8GB space taken thing appears to be present still, upgraded to RC6 as well, you can follow this here:
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