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readynas ultra 4 plus expansion fails
dear everybody it seems my trusty ultra does not want to expand when given a new disk. the original configuration was 2tb, 3tb, 3tb,3tb. giving me around 7tb of space. i've replaced the 2tb with a...
For some of it, but not everything. The box is pretty full and I don't have enough storage space around unfortunately.
Sorry for coming with this again, I've reported this problem previously, but was to busy to act on the offer by mdmg to look into it further.
I've upgraded one of my disks from previously 2TB to 4 TB (the other 3 are all 3TB). Unfortunately no expansion happened after detecting the new disk, which is kind of annoying.
i've now looked into things, and one thing i've noticed is that fdisk reports the first disk as 3TB (Disk /dev/sda: 4294967295 sectors, 2047G), the exact same size as the others. to be precise, /dev/sda to /dev/sdd all look like this:
Disk /dev/sdd: 4294967295 sectors, 2047G
Logical sector size: 512
Disk identifier (GUID): xxxxxxx
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 5860533134
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 64 8388671 4096M 0700
2 8388672 9437247 512M 0700
3 9437248 3907025072 1858G 0700
4 3907025080 5860529038 931G 0700
in addition, sda shows the last usable sector as 7814037134, which would fit the disk size...
is that normal, or the root of the problem? what could i do?
thanks in advance for any pointers
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