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Having a dense moment here.....
I have a RN2120 (v6.9.3) with 4 x 1TB drives (RAID5) in and it it reaching capacity.
I have taken delivery of 4 x 4TB drives that have been previously used in a ReadyNAS.
The data on the 4TB driv...
Thank you StephenB.
I happen to know where the 4TB drives came from and they are good drives, they were replaced with 10TB drives in a 716X.
I am following your instructions in the first full paragraph, and so far spot on. A second data volume appeared, I destroyed it, then am formatting it and re-syncing, estimating 8Hrs.
I was struggling to find the right information in the manual under "Previously Formatted Disks". It tells you that you must re-format them, but does not tell you how to do this if you are expanding your system, just how to do it on a new system, or how to migrate the data.
The closest to what I'm doing is: "If you try to use previously formatted disks in a system that already contains usable disks, the system does not reformat or use the previously formatted disks. Any data on the previously formatted disks remains intact."
So you have very kindly provided the missing link!
Are you using X-RAID? You should see a green line under X-RAID on the Volumes tab if so. Don’t change this setting now.
Can you send your logs in (see the Sending Logs link in my sig)?
Can you send your logs in (see the Sending Logs link in my sig)?
No, there is no green line underneath.
I will email the full set of logs. StephenB only asked for the one above.
Skeetboy1 wrote:
I will email the full set of logs. StephenB only asked for the one above.
I'm not a mod, so I don't receive emailed logs. mdstat.log is generally a good place to look first, and it's usually short enough to cut and paste.
After a normal vertical expansion, the system will create a new raid layer (which should have been md126 in your case). mdstat doesn't show that layer at all. That's likely good news, as I think it's harder to deal with a failed expansion than with one that never actually started.
But wait for mdgm-ntgr's response before you take any action.
Thank you@StephenB.
Logs have been sent, just checking that they have arrived successfully.
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