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gpaolo
Jan 13, 2020Luminary
Disk replacement - back sync and again degraded after reboot
Hi all, I am having some trouble with my RN524. I have 2x1TB and 2x4TB disks, each couple in RAID1 on my NAS. A few days ago, while I was away (bacause it always happens while I am away...) one of t...
- Jan 26, 2020
I have returned finally home and swapped the drives... and it works fine.
Oh well, problem solved, next time use more brain...
Thank you everyone, sorry for the mistake!
gpaolo
Jan 13, 2020Luminary
I have the feeling that something got stuck in the OS. I have tried to format the disk and nothing changed. I have tried also to set it as global spare but nothing changed either. I'm not sure of what I can do remotely once I leave, I'm quite nervous about leaving the NAS for two more weeks without redundancy... I have the backup, but still...
StephenB
Jan 13, 2020Guru - Experienced User
gpaolo wrote:
I have tried also to set it as global spare
Why? FWIW, you can't do that if the disk is already part of a volume.
gpaolo wrote:
I'm quite nervous about leaving the NAS for two more weeks without redundancy... I have the backup, but still...
I suggest downloading the log zip file. System.log and Kernel.log normally will contain any disk errors or btrfs file system errors, so look in those files. Also look at the SMART stats in disk_info.log - particularly for reallocated or pending sectors.
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