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mnr
Apr 14, 2017Aspirant
"ERR: Used Disks" After Reboot
A few days ago, I started a defragmentation of my X-raid array of four disks due to declining access speed. While I had never done this before with the ReadyNAS, I naively expected a similar experie...
- Apr 15, 2017
Looks like your removal and readding of disk 4 was the problem.
Rebooting.
mnr
Apr 15, 2017Aspirant
Thanks so much for the assistance! :)
I did try to swap the 1 TB disk for an 8 TB one a few days ago (should have given me around 7 TB additional effective storage space), but the 8 TB disk turned out to be faulty, so I put the original 1 TB disk back in. No idea that could cause problems.
Anyway, thanks again. :)
mdgm-ntgr
Apr 18, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
Well adding it in when the NAS was on the system would've told you that you needed to format it. Adding it back in with the system off is where booting could be prevented. The system detected that the root volume on the 1TB disk was out of sync with the other disks.
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