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Failing Readynas Ultra 6
Hi, I have an old Readynas ultra 6 running the old 4.2.x firmware, which is starting to fail. I'd like to know if I can salvage it. It has 4 disks in a raid configuration, runs OS 4.2.x, with s...
Do you have ssh enabled on the Ultra?
Do the shares still show up in Frontview?
I'm wondering if the OS partition is filling.
Do you have ssh enabled on the Ultra?
Do the shares still show up in Frontview?
I'm wondering if the OS partition is filling.
Thanks very, very much for your help!!
I'm not at home now, so I can't check if the data shares show up in Frontview, but I'll bet they do. When I ran rsync incremental backups from my backup 316 Readynas (the jobs executed on the 316), all the backups ran to completion. So, I think the data is intact.
I don't have SSH installed; I've installed the plug-in SSH toggle before, but I always run it a second time to disable SSH when I'm through on general security principles, so it's disabled now. I can try running the toggle again, and then checking the OS partition to see if it's full. That sure sounds like the sort of thing that could cause my symptoms. Maybe the logs files got too big.
But maybe I don't need to bother. Is there a simple way of cleaning the OS directory? Will reinstalling the firmware (assuming I can do this from front view with my system in its current state) fix it?
If not, I'll try running the SSH toggle, and logging in. What files should I delete to make the necessary space - do you know? For example, maybe I should clear the log directory?
Also, I seem to remember there's a "clear logs" button in Frontview. That's the first thing I'll try!
alexofindy1 wrote:
Also, I seem to remember there's a "clear logs" button in Frontview. That's the first thing I'll try!
One challenge here is that if the OS partition gets very full, then installing the ssh plug-in or downloading the log zip can fail. If that were to happen, you'd need to go in tech support mode, manually mount the OS partition and clean it.
Try clearing the logs, and then downloading the zip. Hopefully that will free up enough space to avoid filling the OS completely,
Once downloaded, look in disk_info.log. The OS partition is the first entry ( /dev/md0 ). Normally it is about 25% full. If you use ReadyDLNA, then there is a small chance that the OS has run out of inodes - but I believe the inode utilization isn't in the log zip file. You can install ssh, and then use df -i to check for that.
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