Readynas NV+ stuck on boot

Thanks again for your help. I have now access to the data.

You should deal with the logs I mentioned.

I should copy them on another path and delete them?

You could just delete them.  

Or copy them to the data volume using shell access, and then delete them on the OS partition.

I have deleted them and now, my NAS yesterday booted well and works (almost?) like a charm. So really thanks because you saved both the NAS and the data (and I learned things).

"Almost" because I changed a disk that reported to have errors. Anyway, I bought one when I had my problem in case I had a disk failure causing the crash.

My config is originally X-Raid : 1TB+2TB+1TB+1TB (the 2TB one had been changed following a disk failure and I chose to take a larger disk for eventually expanding the volume in the future). 2.6TB available

My config is now X-Raid : 2TB+2TB+1TB+1TB. 2.6TB available

My volume synchronized well but there is only 2.6TB available. Accordingly to what I read on Netgear website, I should have now more than 3TB.

I rebooted the NAS but no expansion task launched by the NAS. I chose to resynchronize the volume but there does not not seem to do it.

Maybe there's nothing to do with my last problem but where do you think this issue comes from?

Thanks

The NV+ v1 doesn't handle mixed size disks the way the newer units do.  You don't get any vertical expansion until all disks are upgraded to 2 TB.  Then you'd get 6 TB (~5.4 TiB)

Even in X-Raid? And even if I re-build the volume from scratch?

It is not very clear when we search for this question on the Internet.

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Danxter wrote:

Even in X-Raid? And even if I re-build the volume from scratch?

 

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Yes.

Later ReadyNAS (OS 4.2, OS 5, and OS 6) use an improved XRAID that supports mixed-size disks.  Likely your internet searches are finding info on the improved version (originally called XRAID-2).  

But the SPARC-based ReadyNAS (running OS 4.1) run the original XRAID, and that doesn't handle mixed sizes.