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Remove inactive volumes to use the disk. Disk #1,2,3,4. troubleshooting
As per many other posts i am experiencing "Remove inactive volumes to use the disk. Disk #1,2,3,4." But i cannot find a post or a guide that gives better troubleshooting info. So far apart from thi...
I am waiting for sometime to check a spare disk i used as extra backup before trying the resync also because i cannot find my docking station.
On my mac brew install telnet worked
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$ which telnet
/usr/local/bin/telnet
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About the RAID not re-assemblying is the command required to fix it only
mdadm --really-force
Is this the only command required? Anything else you can add please let me know.
Ie
1 - remove disk 1
2 - boot in tech support mode, is this something done at boot sequence? How can it get this done?
3 - any mdadm or other commands to execute here before the resync, ie "lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,FSTYPE,TYPE,MOUNTPOINT "
4 - what would the full resync command be?
About all the suggestions you gave i ll try to learn more. About replacing the drives with new ones this one https://fastclick.mu/toshiba-4tb-s300-surveillance-7200-rpm-128-mb-buffer/ i would say affordable one as Amazon or similar are not available here ...
bizmate wrote:
2 - boot in tech support mode, is this something done at boot sequence? How can it get this done?
See pages 28-29 in the hardware manual here:
bizmate wrote:
3 - any mdadm or other commands to execute here before the resync, ie "lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,FSTYPE,TYPE,MOUNTPOINT "
To be clear, you aren't resyncing - that cannot be done with one disk remove.
When you connect to the NAS with telnet, log in as root. The password is infr8ntdebug.
Enter these commands:
rnutil chroot
mdadm --assemble --really-force /dev/md127 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 /dev/sdc3
btrfs device scan
mount /dev/md127 /data
ls /data
The ls command should include your shares if everything works.
If you see errors from any of these commands, stop at that point and let us know what they are.
Otherwise, power down the NAS, and reboot. The volume should then mount (but will be degraded due to the removed disk).
bizmate wrote:
4 - what would the full resync command be?
Again, you cannot resync with a missing disk. When you get the replacement you can hot-insert it into the empty slot (with the NAS running). The NAS will do a brief disk test, and should then add the disk to the array.
bizmate wrote:
About all the suggestions you gave i ll try to learn more. About replacing the drives with new ones this one https://fastclick.mu/toshiba-4tb-s300-surveillance-7200-rpm-128-mb-buffer/ i would say affordable one as Amazon or similar are not available here ...
The S300 is a surveillance drive - optimized for sustained write performance over read. It will work in a NAS, but I suggest the N300 instead.
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