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ReadyNAS NVX not expanding after disc replacement
A usual apology: I've searched and not found the information I need... I hope I haven't missed anything obvious.
I've just replaced all 4 drives (4x500Gb to 4x2Tb) on my "ReadyNAS NVX Business Edition" (RNDX4250)... each drive was recognised, tested, passed and resynced without issue. But at the end of the process, even after multiple reboots, it still shows the original 1.3Tb of available storage.
The box is quite old and running RAIDiator 4.2.31 (just upgraded from 4.2.9!), and the single C: volume shows... "Online, RAID Level 5, 4 disks, 94% of 1370 GB used"
I've downloaded RAIDar (first 6.5.0, and then 4.3.8 when 6.5.0 didn't find anything) with the understanding it would give me tools, but it appears to be literally a locator/status and nothing more?
Trying to use the web-interface to the box on my Windows 10 laptop, I keep getting errors under the "Volume Settings" section. Some searching showed I needed to use an old Windows 7 VMware instance I fortunately still had... and using IE9 allows me to access the section, which shows me the 4 drives (each with 1863Gb but only 461Gb allocated).
There WAS a button in the "Volume Settings" called something along the lines of "Expand" (although there were two words, and I cannot remember exactly what they were)... however, after a reboot, the button has disappeared (completely gone, rather than disabled) and nothing has changed on the storage size. Checking the logs, it said it couldn't expand because I needed to turn-off the "Disable journaling" option, which I have now done, but the "Expand" button still hasn't come back for me to press!
I've seen comments about running command line instructions, but they were for OS 6.. and more importantly, I don't know how you get a command line on the box (I've tried a telnet session, but can't see any obvious option to enable it)
Please can somebody tell me how I can expand the available storage? I do have a copy of all the data on an external 2Tb drive (done before the drive replacements) although obviously I'd like to avoid a factor reset and restore if possible.
If there is any other information I can provide, please let me know (and if necessary how to get that information).
And the normal sign off... many thanks in advance!
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You don't seem to be running into any of the expansion limits. Can you download the log zip file and post anything that looks important from expansion.log?
Many thanks for you response.
[IGNORE the next line, I've NOT been able to attach the file]
I don't know what you'd consider "important", so I've attached the entire expansion log from the last 2 days (21/09/2019 I replaced the drives, but was too tired to work out why it hadn't expanded... 22/09/2019 I tried to do the expansion).
I guess the important part (which is repeated) is...
> Disk configuration mis-matching with online configuration, can not update now...
OK, so after being unable to upload the .log file, here is a section which I hope will help (this has JUST been added after starting up the box again)... oh, and the time is out by about 30 minutes!
[2019/09/22 17:56:18 1696] Boot, handle mutiple expand_md
[2019/09/22 17:56:19 1697] STAGE_CHECK: saved my_pid 1697 in check mode.
[2019/09/22 17:56:19 1697] RAID MODE: 0, sn=
[2019/09/22 17:56:19 1697] LINE 4591: exec command: lvs > /var/log/frontview/.V_E.snapshotstat
[2019/09/22 17:56:21 1697] Current file system status: ext4
[2019/09/22 17:56:21 1697] LINE 5305: exec command: rm -fr /var/log/frontview/.V_E.*
[2019/09/22 17:56:21 1697] /usr/sbin/expand_md
[2019/09/22 17:56:21 1697] MD degraded 0, bg_job 0, boot 1
[2019/09/22 17:56:21 1697] Read 1957072 byte from configuration
[2019/09/22 17:56:21 1697] configuration not same: 4 : 4
[2019/09/22 17:56:21 1697] Read 1957072 byte from configuration
[2019/09/22 17:56:21 1697] configuration not same: 4 : 4
[2019/09/22 17:56:21 1697] access 2, new_disk 0, fs 4
[2019/09/22 17:56:21 1697] Read 1957072 byte from configuration
[2019/09/22 17:56:21 1697] configuration not same: 4 : 4
[2019/09/22 17:56:21 1697] Disk configuration mis-matching with online configuration, can not update now...
[2019/09/22 17:56:22 1697] LINE 4939: exec command: ps -ef | grep expand_md | grep -v grep > /var/log/frontview/.V_E.snapshotstat
[2019/09/22 17:56:24 1697] STAGE_WIPE: Clean my_pid 1697Disk configuration mis-matching with online configuration, can not update now... certainly sounds important. I'm very confised by the other mismatch statments that say there is a mismatch, and then list matching numbers. I'm afraid you're going to have to leave this one to the Netgear mods.
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