I can't seem to be able to expand my NAS using my new drive. I keep getting an expansion failure (see log below). I had removed a 1TB drive that kept having increasing allocation errors. I went ahead and replaced it with a 3TB drive (channel 3 below). Right now all i have available on the NAS is 8322 GB. How can i fix this? I am not that well versed in everything ReadyNAS. I tried a firmware update just in case it was that and and i also tried to initiate the volume expansion and no good. I am at a loss here. BTW, the NAS has something like 6 TB of data on it right now. HELP!!! Thank you.
Thu Feb 6 22:26:23 EST 2014 System is up. Thu Feb 6 22:23:58 EST 2014 Volume expansion failed Thu Feb 6 22:23:57 EST 2014 Incompleted file system expansion detected. Resuming... Thu Feb 6 22:23:52 EST 2014 Volume scan found no errors. Thu Feb 6 22:04:11 EST 2014 Rebooting device... Thu Feb 6 22:04:11 EST 2014 Please close this browser session and use RAIDar to reconnect to the device. System rebooting... Thu Feb 6 21:52:35 EST 2014 System is up. Thu Feb 6 21:52:14 EST 2014 System Update Status (CB-NAS) : Your ReadyNAS device has been updated with a new firmware image. (RAIDiator-x86 4.2.26) Thu Feb 6 21:52:06 EST 2014 Volume expansion failed Thu Feb 6 21:52:06 EST 2014 Incompleted file system expansion detected. Resuming... Thu Feb 6 21:49:47 EST 2014 Rebooting device... Thu Feb 6 21:49:47 EST 2014 Please close this browser session and use RAIDar to reconnect to the device. System rebooting... Thu Feb 6 21:45:20 EST 2014 Please reboot your ReadyNAS device to continue with the update process. Thu Feb 6 21:39:20 EST 2014 System is up. Thu Feb 6 21:38:59 EST 2014 Volume expansion failed Thu Feb 6 21:38:57 EST 2014 Incompleted file system expansion detected. Resuming... Thu Feb 6 21:37:45 EST 2014 Rebooting device... Thu Feb 6 21:37:45 EST 2014 Please close this browser session and use RAIDar to reconnect to the device. System rebooting... Thu Feb 6 17:38:02 EST 2014 Volume expansion failed Thu Feb 6 17:38:00 EST 2014 Incompleted file system expansion detected. Resuming... Thu Feb 6 17:37:58 EST 2014 Volume expansion failed Thu Feb 6 17:37:55 EST 2014 Newly added drive has more space to expand the volume, will start volume expansion. Thu Feb 6 17:37:47 EST 2014 RAID sync finished on volume C. Thu Feb 6 00:48:58 EST 2014 RAID sync started on volume C. Thu Feb 6 00:48:34 EST 2014 Data volume will be rebuilt with disk 3. Thu Feb 6 00:46:26 EST 2014 New disk detected. If multiple disks have been added, they will be processed one at a time. Please do not remove any added disk(s) during this time. [Disk 3]
Re: Volume Exp. Fail - RNAS Pro Pioneer Ed. [X-RAID2]
What disks were installed when you last did a factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything)?
If you had 6x1TB disks (or smaller disks) installed you have likely hit the 8TB expansion limit. You cannot expand the volume by more than 8TB over the life of the volume.
The solution is to backup your data and do a factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything) and restore your data from backup.
