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Issue with expanding storage in Netgear Ready NAS 4312S
Hello,
We have a Netgear ReadyNAS 4312s with 72T storage (12 * 8TB disks in RAID6). Six months back, we bought a 24-bay Netgear expansion chassis and populated it with 5 8TB disks. We had to create...
euhr wrote:
Okay, I didn't know X-raid will not work across different RAID groups.
Again it does use multiple RAID groups, though they aren't structured like yours are. It won't let you switch to XRAID because XRAID won't let a volume span two chassis.
In general you can always switch from XRAID to FlexRAID, but you can't always switch in the reverse direction.
euhr wrote:
And when I click Expand, nothing happens. Any thoughts on that? Any log files that I can refer to?
You should look at mdstat.log, volume.log, and perhaps rn_expand.log.
Another option is to use paid Netgear support (my.netgear.com).
Have you formatted the new drive first?
>> Again it does use multiple RAID groups, though they aren't structured like yours are. It won't let you switch to XRAID because XRAID won't let a volume span two chassis.
>> In general you can always switch from XRAID to FlexRAID, but you can't always switch in the reverse direction.
Got it and noted.>> You should look at mdstat.log, volume.log, and perhaps rn_expand.log.
I don't see these logs in /var/log. Was looking around but couldn't find anything. Can you please let me know the location of these files?>> Another option is to use paid Netgear support (my.netgear.com).
Yep. that's the next one if I can't get it working.>> Have you formatted the new drive first?
Yes. but still nothing happens when I click on the 'Expand' button.
euhr wrote:
>> You should look at mdstat.log, volume.log, and perhaps rn_expand.log.
I don't see these logs in /var/log. Was looking around but couldn't find anything. Can you please let me know the location of these files?Download the log zip file from the web ui, they are in there.
euhr wrote:
>> Have you formatted the new drive first?
YesFormatted them in the NAS or in a different device?
>> Download the log zip file from the web ui, they are in there.
Okay, got it.. nothing interesting in the logs.In rn_expand.log, I see this message to confirm the disk is formatted.
rn-expand[5685]: Formatting disk 3:10 (sdr)
>> Formatted them in the NAS or in a different device?
Formatted it in NAS.
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