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ReadyNAS Duo - whirring fan and won't start, help!
Hi experts, My NAS suddenly stopped working - it was switched on, and has been nearly continuously since purchase and then what sounds like the fan or a motor started sounding like it was trying to...
Ok, I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 in a Parallels VM.
Then I connected one of the ReadyNAS hard drives to an external SATA enclosure and connected it to my Mac via USB.
Next I opened a Terminal window and typed (from the above link - http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=306):
(1) sudo su
(2) apt-get install fuseext2
(3) apt-get install lvm2
(4) modprobe fuse
(5) vgscan
- after this I got:
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Found volume group "c" using metadata type lvm2
(6) vgchange -ay c
- after this I got:
1 logical volume(s) in volume group "c" now active
(7) fuseext2 -o ro -o sync_read /dev/c/c /mnt
I can now see a lot of folders (bin, c, dev, etc, frontview, home, initrd, lib, lost+found, mnt, opt, proc, ramfs, root, sbin, sys, tmp, USB, usr, var) and some what look like shortcuts (each one named after my ReadyNAS shares).
When I click on any of the shortcuts I get the following error:
The Link "FullBackup" is Broken. Move it to Trash? This link cannot be used, because its target "/c/FullBackup" doesn't exist
The instructions in the main link say "You can now see the mounted files in the /mnt directory" - however when I double click the mnt folder it appears to be empty.
Any ideas what I should do next?
(I've never used Linux before, and I don't really understand what I typed into the terminal window - but I did not receive any errors).
Many thanks - feels a step closer but still a mile away from my data!
Update: I now see 'c' with a green blob in the 'Devices' list - however when I click on it I get the following error:
Error mounting: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/c-c,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
Then I connected one of the ReadyNAS hard drives to an external SATA enclosure and connected it to my Mac via USB.
Next I opened a Terminal window and typed (from the above link - http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=306):
(1) sudo su
(2) apt-get install fuseext2
(3) apt-get install lvm2
(4) modprobe fuse
(5) vgscan
- after this I got:
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Found volume group "c" using metadata type lvm2
(6) vgchange -ay c
- after this I got:
1 logical volume(s) in volume group "c" now active
(7) fuseext2 -o ro -o sync_read /dev/c/c /mnt
I can now see a lot of folders (bin, c, dev, etc, frontview, home, initrd, lib, lost+found, mnt, opt, proc, ramfs, root, sbin, sys, tmp, USB, usr, var) and some what look like shortcuts (each one named after my ReadyNAS shares).
When I click on any of the shortcuts I get the following error:
The Link "FullBackup" is Broken. Move it to Trash? This link cannot be used, because its target "/c/FullBackup" doesn't exist
The instructions in the main link say "You can now see the mounted files in the /mnt directory" - however when I double click the mnt folder it appears to be empty.
Any ideas what I should do next?
(I've never used Linux before, and I don't really understand what I typed into the terminal window - but I did not receive any errors).
Many thanks - feels a step closer but still a mile away from my data!
Update: I now see 'c' with a green blob in the 'Devices' list - however when I click on it I get the following error:
Error mounting: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/c-c,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
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