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PRO6 "Remove inactive volumes" after interrupted balance
Firmware 6.9.3, RAID 6, 6 drives. I let the volume get really full before my autoscheduled balance kicked on and ground everything to a halt. Forced reboot gives all red drives and the "Remove inac...
Hi itachi2,
It appears that the volume is already filled up when the balance ran which has given it no room to rewrite the data. When the file system comes up, it is trying to finish a large amount of previous tasks but there is no space so it just locks up.
You can try booting the NAS to read-only and check if you can access the data that way. Otherwise you have to look for the 3rd party data recovery to assist you in recovering the data.
As what StephenB mentioned, Pro 6 with OS6 firmware is not supported by NETGEAR.
Regards,
Hi itachi2,
You may just upload the logs to a file sharing site then PM me the download link so we can review it.
Regards,
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