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pke1234
Dec 02, 2023Aspirant
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 ...
- Dec 02, 2023
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).
pke1234
Dec 02, 2023Aspirant
more information
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
pke1234
Dec 02, 2023Aspirant
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
- StephenBDec 02, 2023Guru
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).
- pke1234Dec 02, 2023Aspirant
how do I boot in readonly mode? Never done that before. Do you mean that the mounted drives should be mounted in ready only?
Regards
Pär
- StephenBDec 02, 2023Guru
pke1234 wrote:
how do I boot in readonly mode? Never done that before.
It's described on pages 74-75 of the hardware manual.
pke1234 wrote:
Do you mean that the mounted drives should be mounted in read only?
Yes. That is a bit safer. There are potentially some other steps needed to get everything working properly, and it's better to prevent any writes from happening to the data volume at the moment.
Try accessing the web admin ui if it boots successfully, and make sure you can see your shares in the shares list.
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