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HELP ReadyNAS314 problem booting
Hi Everyone
I have a HUGE problem. today my ReadyNAS314 just won't boot it reaches 98% and then stops. When connecting a screen via HDMI I see that the system asks for logon and pwd. I enter the credentials and then I get this error message:
"Unable to create and initialize directory /home/admin"
This is a major **bleep** situation since I have soo many photos that are not backed up. Yeas I know you should always backup your system, but I got sloppy the last 3 years..
I need so much help here.
Thanks
pke1234 wrote:
Then in my / dir I got alot of files called "chunk-00xx" which makes me a bit nervous. It
Likely you have a full root partition.
The chunk-00xx files were left behind by plex, and should be deleted.
After that is done, try rebooting the NAS (I suggest read-only mode intially).
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What happens if you log in as root, using the NAS admin password?
Oh that worked... THANKS alot now I only should try to get all my data back...
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It turns out that even though the system only shows 98% ready of booting it can still serve me the web login screen. However I am not able to login. If anyone have and answer to how I should get access to the system anything would be appriciated. I'll by new hardware if that is neccisary
Regards
Pär
Hi again
I got in to the system with root. But I cant find my files I kind of remember that they should be in the /home directory but its vompletely empty. Then in my / dir I got alot of files called "chunk-00xx" which makes me a bit nervous. It feels like they are some kind of rescued files... Feels like the only option is to turn in the darn NAS to an expensive doctor. This is pretty much why I bought a NAS if a disk breaks it should be able to recover.
Pär
pke1234 wrote:
Then in my / dir I got alot of files called "chunk-00xx" which makes me a bit nervous. It
Likely you have a full root partition.
The chunk-00xx files were left behind by plex, and should be deleted.
After that is done, try rebooting the NAS (I suggest read-only mode intially).
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