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Recommended Approach for upgrading drive
I have to replace a drive with some early smartctl errors, looking for advice on how to best proceed. I am going to be upgrading the size and also moving volumes round between a couple of drives tha...
also for clarity, I am not using X-Raid, using flex-raid... All volumes were created as JBOD.
I have already DESTROYED the other two volumes in preparation to restore to new devices.
However now getting a weird error, I have rebooted it several times to flush everything out, but now when I try to use front view it is prompting me dozens of times and forever for admin login and password, its not remembering it for any length of time, I have tried several different web browsers same result. Any idea what might be suddenly causing that?
I'm wondering if something in the OS was using some space on one of the other volumes I have DESTROY'd. Not sure why it would be, but that's the only thing I changed, destroyed both volumes, there is only one drive in the readynas now, the OS drive...and it SHOULD be functioning fine...but its becoming unwieldy to have to re-enter the admin login and password over and over again.
Also when I tried to then insert one of the new drives and add a flex-raid JBOD volume, its coming back with an error about can't find device or something like that.
So... somehow destroying the two non-OS JBOD volumes seems to have broken my OS functionality.
but its becoming unwieldy to have to re-enter the admin login and password over and over again.
If the password hasn't changed, then this must be a browser issue.
I had IDrive installed in /opt. That's the standard place their installer installs it. When I destroyed these two data volumes, idrive has a deamon running which freaked out and filled up root / in some way. Not sure why, I will look into it later. Anyway, I moved the iDrive stuff out of /opt for now and then the admin login and password work correctly. in the future I will try to see if I can install idrive in /apps which would not have this problem in the future.
However another problem I know have is that somehow when the / filesystem filled up while destroying those two data volumes, when I try to add one of the volumes back using the same name as before, it won't work...complains about can't find something, its not clear..my guess is that when the / filesystem filled up, it blocked the destroy operation on that volume from completing its task, so there is some half-baked config files somewhere now, and I sure hope one of you guys knows how I can clear it out of there so that I can create the volume again with the same name, otherwise I guess I have to factory reset and start all over A-GAIN...which makes my wince..
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