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ReadyNas 104 volume expansion
Greetings! I've a ReadyNAS 104 running Firmware 6.4.1. Previously, I had four 3TB drives running on the X-RAID volume. I had approximately 8TiB with that volume (expected math). I began ...
Hello SmplyUnprdctble,
Welcome to the community!
Do you have full backup of the data? If you have, maybe you can try factory reset with all these 6TB disks inserted and create a new volume and see if that will give you the expected volume capacity.
If none, it is best you try contacting support center, this can be checked and fixed from the backend.
Regards,
Hello SmplyUnprdctble,
Welcome to the community!
Do you have full backup of the data? If you have, maybe you can try factory reset with all these 6TB disks inserted and create a new volume and see if that will give you the expected volume capacity.
If none, it is best you try contacting support center, this can be checked and fixed from the backend.
Regards,
I don't have a full backup, but can probably pop spare drives in temporary machines to copy the data off temporarily (I've already gotten rid of two of the drives that came out).
I know full reset is probably the "best option." I was just hoping if there was something the Community would know that I may have missed.
I don't know if it matters any, but when I swapped out the drives, I did far left, far right, inner left, inner right (e.g. I didn't go in sequential order). I didn't think it would matter (hoping it didn't), but I went that order as someone wanted two of the drives and I knew one of the inner drives was a refurb and wasn't keen on having someone else use that one.
You should be seeing very close to a 18 TB volume size, which is (as you say) around 16 TiB.
As fdisk reports, you need to use gdisk to see parttition information on GPT formatted drives.
It might be helpful to look in the expansion log.
StephenB wrote:You should be seeing very close to a 18 TB volume size, which is (as you say) around 16 TiB.
As fdisk reports, you need to use gdisk to see parttition information on GPT formatted drives.
It might be helpful to look in the expansion log.
Where do I get the expansion log?
HAH! :)
The support link you gave tells me my complimentary support is over (not a surprise), so I have a choice of paid or the community here, it says.
Being unsure of the cost for the paid support, I'm thinking my best choices are either see if someone else has a solution or see if I can move data around temporarily and do a full FR.
I guess I'll follow up with a quesiton of "if I FR, does it reinitialize the disks, or do I have to do something special with the disks while I FR?"
SmplyUnprdctble wrote:
I guess I'll follow up with a quesiton of "if I FR, does it reinitialize the disks, or do I have to do something special with the disks while I FR?"
A factory reset will reinitialize the disks.
There was an attempt at forcing a resync to get my drive that was marked as spare unmarked.
The resync never finished (the NAS kept hanging and restarting the resync).
After the fourth freeze and seeing the resync time go back up to 120 hours again (and not wanting to try a firmware update in the middle of a resync), I finished copying off my files and factory reset.
I now see my full drive space I expect. I did firmware update as well (to hopefully prevent the aforementioned freeze).
Hopefully I'm good now.
Thanks everybody for your assistance!
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