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phaze
Mar 23, 2018Aspirant
RN204, "Read-only file system", no error messages anywhere
The NAS has been running fine for a long time, with 4 x 6TB WD Reds in RAID5, single volume. light usage scenario, mainly as Acronis backup destination for around 10 users. No apps installed. Ou...
- Mar 23, 2018
Quotas aren't the issue in this case.
However I do see errors in the logs (e.g. in systemd-journal.log) about the filesystem being forced to read-only.
If the NAS is used for primary storage of important data I'd backup that data and verify that it's good, then do a factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything) and restore data from backup.
phaze
Mar 23, 2018Aspirant
Hi,
Logs sent, thanks.
Snapshots are disabled on all shares, and a quota is set for only one share.
Everything on the webGUI, all settings and reported info, seem to be correct and normal.
Thanks again for your help.
Lorenzo
phaze
Mar 23, 2018Aspirant
Hi, sorry, yes: quotas is set to on at the volume level...
- mdgm-ntgrMar 23, 2018NETGEAR Employee Retired
Quotas aren't the issue in this case.
However I do see errors in the logs (e.g. in systemd-journal.log) about the filesystem being forced to read-only.
If the NAS is used for primary storage of important data I'd backup that data and verify that it's good, then do a factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything) and restore data from backup.
- phazeMar 23, 2018Aspirant
I was hopeing there was a way out of resetting everything, but not a big deal.... just a pain to setup all the shares again.
Do you think I could use a configuration backuip file, once I factory reset the unit?
Thanks for your time in helping me resolve the issue.
Best regards.
Lorenzo
- mdgm-ntgrMar 23, 2018NETGEAR Employee Retired
phaze wrote:Do you think I could use a configuration backuip file, once I factory reset the unit?
Yes. In any case if you have a problem with restoring a config backup you could always do another factory reset and manually reconfigure.
So it's a good idea to take some screenshots of the configuration just in case.
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