47 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

I believe pwm is right, you need to specify the partition (p1)

This is what I am trying to figure out.  UD has been doing it this way without specifying the partition for a long time.

Jan  9 11:21:50 BackupServer unassigned.devices: Format disk '/dev/sdg' with 'xfs' filesystem result: meta-data=/dev/sdg1              isize=512    agcount=4, agsize=19535700 blks          =                       sectsz=512   attr=2, projid32bit=1          =                       crc=1        finobt=1, sparse=0, rmapbt=0, reflink=0 data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=78142798, imaxpct=25          =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0 ftype=1 log      =internal log           bsize=4096   blocks=38155, version=2          =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1 realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0
Jan  9 11:21:53 BackupServer unassigned.devices: Reloading disk '/dev/sdg' partition table.
Jan  9 11:21:53 BackupServer kernel: sdg: sdg1
Jan  9 11:21:53 BackupServer unassigned.devices: Reload partition table result: /dev/sdg:  re-reading partition table

Ok.  I stand corrected.  The log message shows the drive and not the partition.  It is actually formatting /dev/sdg1.  This tells me what is wrong with the nvme format command now.  It needs the partition as nvne0n1p1.

 

Fix is now coming.

Edited January 10, 20188 yr by dlandon

Thank you to those that replied about me using external USB enclosure for parity drives. I've ordered a PCIe SATA card so I can use the drives internally.

9 hours ago, deaerator said:

The update didn't work.

 

here is the disk log

Jan 8 22:17:01 Tower kernel: nvme0n1: p1
Jan 8 22:17:32 Tower emhttp: Samsung_SSD_960_EVO_250GB_S3ESNX0JC76289K (nvme0n1) 244198552
Jan 8 22:34:08 Tower kernel: nvme0n1: p1
Jan 8 22:39:47 Tower unassigned.devices: Removing partition '1' from disk '/dev/nvme0n1'.
Jan 8 22:55:21 Tower unassigned.devices: Removing partition '1' from disk '/dev/nvme0n1'.
Jan 9 11:11:36 Tower unassigned.devices: Adding disk '/dev/nvme0n1p1'...
Jan 9 11:11:36 Tower unassigned.devices: Mount drive command: /sbin/mount -t precleared -o auto,async,noatime,nodiratime '/dev/nvme0n1p1' '/mnt/disks/Samsung_SSD_960_EVO_250GB_S3ESNX0JC76289K'
Jan 9 11:11:36 Tower unassigned.devices: Mount of '/dev/nvme0n1p1' failed. Error message: mount: unknown filesystem type 'precleared'
Jan 9 11:13:00 Tower unassigned.devices: Device '/dev/nvme0n1' block size: 488397168
Jan 9 11:13:00 Tower unassigned.devices: Clearing partition table of disk '/dev/nvme0n1'.
Jan 9 11:13:00 Tower unassigned.devices: Reloading disk '/dev/nvme0n1' partition table.
Jan 9 11:13:00 Tower unassigned.devices: Reload partition table result: /dev/nvme0n1: re-reading partition table
Jan 9 11:13:00 Tower unassigned.devices: Creating a primary partition on disk '/dev/nvme0n1'.
Jan 9 11:13:00 Tower unassigned.devices: Creating unRAID compatible mbr on disk '/dev/nvme0n1'.
Jan 9 11:13:01 Tower kernel: nvme0n1: p1
Jan 9 11:13:01 Tower unassigned.devices: Reloading disk '/dev/nvme0n1' partition table.
Jan 9 11:13:01 Tower kernel: nvme0n1: p1
Jan 9 11:13:01 Tower kernel: nvme0n1: p1
Jan 9 11:13:01 Tower unassigned.devices: Reload partition table result: /dev/nvme0n1: re-reading partition table
Jan 9 11:13:01 Tower unassigned.devices: Formatting disk '/dev/nvme0n1' with 'xfs' filesystem.
Jan 9 11:13:01 Tower unassigned.devices: Format disk '/dev/nvme0n1' with 'xfs' filesystem failed!

 

Update to 2018.01.09b.  It should format the disk now.

Edited January 10, 20188 yr by dlandon

58 minutes ago, PeeBee said:

Thank you to those that replied about me using external USB enclosure for parity drives. I've ordered a PCIe SATA card so I can use the drives internally.

I don't think that card is currently recommended. I'd do some searching on the forum to see what issues you may encounter with a marvell based HBA like that.

36 minutes ago, jonathanm said:

I don't think that card is currently recommended. I'd do some searching on the forum to see what issues you may encounter with a marvell based HBA like that.

 

Found it...

 

Good catch, thanks.

 

Some users remarked that Marvell may have patched this problem in later versions of its firmware. I'll give it a shot and report back. 

2 hours ago, dlandon said:

Update to 2018.01.09b.  It should format the disk now.

Thank you.

 

It works.

I'm not entirely sure this is the right place to post this but here we go.

 

I'm setting up my first Unraid Server from a machine that used to run Ubuntu server. I'm a bit of a noob and I'm stuck at a critical part of the migration process.

 

The Ubuntu server had around 6 TB on it so I added two 4 TB drives for the transition and copied over up my 6 TB of data on there. I added the two 3 TB drives to the array.

 

I planned to use the Unassigned Devices plugin with Krusader to copy the data from the two 4 TB drive to the array but I can't seem to mount the drives. I need a hand to figure out how to mount the devices or migrate the data another way.

 

Screenshot of the unassigned devices | Logs of the two disks I can't mount

• The 1 TB disk used to be the ubuntu boot drive, it's mounted properly and I can access the data
• The two 4 TB disks are the one I'm looking to access, the filesystem isn't displayed on the UI but they're ext4 drives formatted in Ubuntu

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help

Edited January 12, 20188 yr by odrel

4 hours ago, odrel said:

I'm not entirely sure this is the right place to post this but here we go.

 

I'm setting up my first Unraid Server from a machine that used to run Ubuntu server. I'm a bit of a noob and I'm stuck at a critical part of the migration process.

 

The Ubuntu server had around 6 TB on it so I added two 4 TB drives for the transition and copied over up my 6 TB of data on there. I added the two 3 TB drives to the array.

 

I planned to use the Unassigned Devices plugin with Krusader to copy the data from the two 4 TB drive to the array but I can't seem to mount the drives. I need a hand to figure out how to mount the devices or migrate the data another way.

 

Screenshot of the unassigned devices | Logs of the two disks I can't mount

• The 1 TB disk used to be the ubuntu boot drive, it's mounted properly and I can access the data
• The two 4 TB disks are the one I'm looking to access, the filesystem isn't displayed on the UI but they're ext4 drives formatted in Ubuntu

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help

UD does not recognize the file system on the drives.  Were the drives in a raid array?

1 minute ago, dlandon said:

UD does not recognize the file system on the drives.  Were the drives in a raid array?

 

Not at all, they were formatted using the Ubuntu disk utility. I'm trying to boot on a Ubuntu live USB right now to see if I can mount them.

So I booted on a live USB of lubuntu and couldn't mount the drive because of a permission issue, put the drives on 777 and was able to mount them and browse their content, it didn't help for Unraid though.

 

I did however notice that for some reason, Ubuntu apparently didn't create a partition table for the disks, here is how GParted displays it. I don't know much but I think this could be the cause of the issue?

 

Can I create a partition table without compromising the data on the disk?

 

EDIT: An alternative solution could be to just copy the content of the 4 TB disks to the 3 TB disks already in the array from lubuntu, is there any risk to that?

Edited January 13, 20188 yr by odrel

9 hours ago, odrel said:

Can I create a partition table without compromising the data on the disk?

No.

 

9 hours ago, odrel said:

EDIT: An alternative solution could be to just copy the content of the 4 TB disks to the 3 TB disks already in the array from lubuntu, is there any risk to that?

This is a viable solution.  No problem if you do the copy correctly.

I was a bit scared of messing up permissions by copying locally so I ended up setting an NFS share on another computer. Thanks for the help!

There is a strange problem when I mount a remote samba share.  When I run rsync  ( rsync -avzP --delete /mnt/user/tv/ /mnt/disks/10.0.0.120_500GB-2.5/tv )  it copies every time the same files that already exist on that share. I have different rsync parameters but nothing works. I haven't encountered such a problem running rsync in general other than using unassigned devices plugin with a samba shared folder. I would appreciate if you have any ideas what I'm doing wrong. 

22 minutes ago, etsi said:

There is a strange problem when I mount a remote samba share.  When I run rsync  ( rsync -avzP --delete /mnt/user/tv/ /mnt/disks/10.0.0.120_500GB-2.5/tv )  it copies every time the same files that already exist on that share. I have different rsync parameters but nothing works. I haven't encountered such a problem running rsync in general other than using unassigned devices plugin with a samba shared folder. I would appreciate if you have any ideas what I'm doing wrong. 

Mounting a samba share shouldn't make any difference to the rsync command from local to local share mount.  There is probably a permissions issue on the remote samba share that confuses rsync with regards to dates.

 

Where is the remote samba share?  What type of server?  Could you rsync directly to that share?

34 minutes ago, dlandon said:

Mounting a samba share shouldn't make any difference to the rsync command from local to local share mount.  There is probably a permissions issue on the remote samba share that confuses rsync with regards to dates.

 

Where is the remote samba share?  What type of server?  Could you rsync directly to that share?

 

Using --modify-window=5 fixed my problem. There is always  1 second  difference timestamp between source and target files.  The remote samba share is a wdtv media player but also I have a problem with QNAP samba share.

Edited January 14, 20188 yr by etsi

21 minutes ago, etsi said:

 

Using --modify-window=5 fixed my problem. There is always  1 second  difference timestamp between source and target files.  The remote samba share is a wdtv media player but also I have a problem with QNAP samba share.

What is your problem with the QNAP share?

I'm using the plugin now to mount a NFS share hosted on another linux box in my house.  Just wondering if there is any way to change the local path that share gets mounted at to something other than /mnt/disks/<IP of server>_<name of share>. It would be nicer if I could just have it mounted at /mnt/disks/plexdl.  This feature exists for mounted local drives.

 

TIA for any help, and I apologize if I missed something really obvious here

2 hours ago, devros said:

I'm using the plugin now to mount a NFS share hosted on another linux box in my house.  Just wondering if there is any way to change the local path that share gets mounted at to something other than /mnt/disks/<IP of server>_<name of share>. It would be nicer if I could just have it mounted at /mnt/disks/plexdl.  This feature exists for mounted local drives.

 

TIA for any help, and I apologize if I missed something really obvious here

Click on the mount point name when the share is not mounted and change the name.  Press enter to accept.

22 minutes ago, dlandon said:

Click on the mount point name when the share is not mounted and change the name.  Press enter to accept.

 

That worked great, thanks.  For some reason, even with the share unmounted, the. name was still showing up as if it was a link.

1 minute ago, deaerator said:

I'm starting to see these errors in my syslog

Unsure how to fix this.

 

I can't collect any syslog or diagnostics file.  It's seem the system is hanging or stuck.

 

 

Did you try searching the forum? wrong csrf_token has been answered many times.

Hi all, first time posting here. I've been using unRAID for ~1 year, and have been fortunate enough to have your descriptive posts for troubleshooting and answering my many questions. A question that I can't locate the answer to brings me to my first post:

 

I have a single drive mounted by unassigned devices, it's shared as an SMB. The UD share is titled 'Downloads'. I am running unRAID 3.5. 

 

Problem: unRAID persistently adds the UD share 'Downloads' as a user share. Meaning I have two shares with the same name (Downloads), one a user share, the other a UD share. This causes issues with SMB, when I navigate on a Windows machine through windows explorer to my UD Downloads share I get an empty folder, I believe because SMB maps \\(IP address of my unRAID box)\Downloads to the user share, which I've never populated and is therefore empty, not to the UD share. This only started happening after upgrading to 3.5. 

 

If I manually delete the user share (been doing this via the GUI) then after some time (1-10mins typical) the SMB share remaps, and I can access the UD share using the same path, \\(IP address of my unRAID box)\Downloads, but eventually unRAID recreates the user Downloads share. This re-creation of the user share happens without rebooting, meaning I delete the user share, don't restart the system nor array, and within 24 hours unRAID re-creates the user share during the same boot. 

 

Apologies if this issue has already been identified and worked through, just wasn't able to locate the solution in my search. Please let me know if I can provide any further screens/details.

It sounds as if you have a top level folder called Downloads on either the cache drive or one of the array drives.     A User Share is automatically created for all top level folders on the cache drives or array drives.

1 minute ago, itimpi said:

It sounds as if you have a top level folder called Downloads on either the cache drive or one of the array drives.     A User Share is automatically created for all top level folders on the cache drives or array drives.

Yes, this is almost certainly the reason for the User Share. Maybe you have a docker misconfigured and it is creating the folder.

2 hours ago, trurl said:

Yes, this is almost certainly the reason for the User Share. Maybe you have a docker misconfigured and it is creating the folder.

 

Thanks itimpi and trurl, spot on, misconfigured docker. One of my containers was set to mnt/user/Downloads. Also checked the disks, they were clear, probably from the last time I deleted the user share. Thanks for the quick fix!

Would it be possible to add a description/note column to each unassigned device?  I have some disks that I pass through to VMs and it would be nice to be able to see which is which easily.  Thanks!