x88dually Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 (edited) Had Previous 6.8.0 with 1 12tb data drive as btrfs. Updated to 6.8.3, put in original drive and added 6 drives, formatted as btrfs. Original drive wasnt mountable, so unraid mounted and formatted it as xfs, and then the start button was usable. Clicked start array, and 1 drive was xfs and the other 6 new drives are btrfs. i've stopped array, tryed to reformat drive to btrfs, statrted array, And drive says unmountable, no file system. How do i change the original drive from xfs to btrfs ?? Edited July 31, 2020 by x88dually forgot to upload file Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Click on disk1 and make sure fs is set to auto or btrfs, if it's not that post the diags. Quote Link to comment
x88dually Posted July 31, 2020 Author Share Posted July 31, 2020 (edited) It was btrfs, in the screenshot, and thats what unraids spits out. How do i do the diags ? Edited July 31, 2020 by x88dually Quote Link to comment
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JorgeB Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 12 minutes ago, x88dually said: It was btrfs It's not, it's set to xfs. Also, why are you formatting array disks with UD? That will make parity invalid. Quote Link to comment
x88dually Posted July 31, 2020 Author Share Posted July 31, 2020 (edited) This was a virgin install. what is ud ? whatever i'm doing, look at the screenshot, parity is valid. Edited July 31, 2020 by x88dually forgot things to say Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 5 minutes ago, x88dually said: what is ud ? Unassigned devices plugin. 5 minutes ago, x88dually said: parity is valid. No it's not, Unraid just has no way of knowing it's not, until you run a parity check, it will still say valid but there will be sync errors. Quote Link to comment
x88dually Posted July 31, 2020 Author Share Posted July 31, 2020 (edited) it did parity check with 1 drive as xfs, and the rest of the drives were btrfs. Already did parity check. Look at the screenshot Edited July 31, 2020 by x88dually Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 But that was before, after formatting the disk with UD the next check will detect sync errors. Quote Link to comment
x88dually Posted July 31, 2020 Author Share Posted July 31, 2020 unraid will not let me reformat that drive as btrfs. Thats what the screenshots about. Unraid wont let me do it. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Because you're not doing it right. Stop the array, click on disk3, set filesystem to auto, start array. You'll still need to run a parity check after. Quote Link to comment
x88dually Posted July 31, 2020 Author Share Posted July 31, 2020 will auto give me xfs or btrfs ? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Auto will give the filesystem already on disk, if it's already formatted with one of the supported filesystems, or what's set on settings -> disk settings for any newly formatted disk. Quote Link to comment
x88dually Posted July 31, 2020 Author Share Posted July 31, 2020 (edited) In unraid 6.8.0, it was formatted as btrfs, couldnt upgrade for whatever reason, now, everytime in unraid 6.8.3 unraid makes it xfs. i load a drive into this 24 bay case, unraid makes that drive{s} UD. i dont have a choice. So i go from there, killing partition, formatting, mounting, then putting whichever drive into whichever disk # its supposed to be or where i want it to go. thats wrong ? Edited July 31, 2020 by x88dually Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Just now, x88dually said: thats wrong ? Yes, all array disks should be formatted inside the array, or parity won't be updated and will become out of sync. Quote Link to comment
x88dually Posted July 31, 2020 Author Share Posted July 31, 2020 after i do it this was i run a parity check. Quote Link to comment
x88dually Posted July 31, 2020 Author Share Posted July 31, 2020 since i'm doing this wrong. Would you please tell me exactly {in detail} how to do this the right way ? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 If you do it inside the array there's no need for a check after. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 1 minute ago, x88dually said: Would you please tell me exactly {in detail} how to do this the right way ? Stop array, click on the that disk and change the filesystem to the new one, start array and format. Quote Link to comment
x88dually Posted July 31, 2020 Author Share Posted July 31, 2020 how do i do it inside array ? Quote Link to comment
x88dually Posted July 31, 2020 Author Share Posted July 31, 2020 i put a brand new drive into case, unraid sees that drive and puts it into UD. I preclear the drive. then format it, then mount it, then put it into a disk position. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 That's not how you do it, you can or not preclear the drive, don't format, add to array, if the drive is not precleared it will be cleared by Unraid and then you can format it, if it precleared you'll just need to format it. Quote Link to comment
x88dually Posted July 31, 2020 Author Share Posted July 31, 2020 (edited) so i mount the drive, then i click disk # an make file system what i want ? and unraid does the rest ? its doin parity check right now. Should i start all over now ? Edited July 31, 2020 by x88dually Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 1 minute ago, x88dually said: so i mount the drive, then i click disk # an make file system what i want ? If it's a new disk it will use the default filesystem set on Settings -> Disk Settings, if you have an array disk and want to change it to a different filesystem then you click on it and change it there, then format at next array start. Quote Link to comment
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