[SOLVED] Formating time with XFS

Hellow · 7. August 2012

Hi everyone,

Running OMV for one year or so, I've recently upgraded my server with an Adaptec 3408 raid card and 9To of storage (3x3To 5400RPM).
It's formating my raid5 array for almost 3 days now and the Web GUI just show me "Initializing" during the whole time, in the status of my FS.

So I came to wonder if the time spent in formating the whole array isn't a bit too long. Is there a way to look at the formarting progress via parted or something like that ?

votdev · 8. August 2012

Check if the mkfs command is running:

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ps ax | grep mkfs

You may also check

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ps ax | grep omv-initfs

Finally there is a log file at /var/log/openmediavault/omv-initfs@xxxxxxxx.log where xxxxxx should be the device name like _dev_sda (/dev/sda => _dev_sda) which may contain some useful informations.

Hellow · 8. August 2012

Thanks for the reply.

Both are running :

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root@OMV:~# ps ax | grep mkfs
21224 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep mkfs
root@OMV:~# ps ax | grep omv-initfs
21270 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep omv-initfs

And here's what I get in the log :

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Command line arguments=-b -t xfs -L Raid /dev/sda
GPT data structures destroyed! You may now partition the disk using fdisk or
other utilities.
Creating new GPT entries.
Disk /dev/sda: 11702108160 sectors, 5.4 TiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 09D5EB54-ACBA-4CCC-92C2-9E59F5958510
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 11702108126
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)


Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            2048     11702108126   5.4 TiB     8300
The operation has completed successfully.
meta-data=/dev/sda1              isize=256    agcount=6, agsize=268435455 blks
         =                       sectsz=512   attr=2, projid32bit=0
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=1462763259, imaxpct=5
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0
log      =internal log           bsize=4096   blocks=521728, version=2
         =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0

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I don't really catch this one as I'm more friendly with GUI interfaces. Mostly when it comes to drives managing.

votdev · 9. August 2012

What about the following:

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ls -alh /tmp

If there is a *.fail file (i think it should be named like (xxx@_dev_sda_.fail) please post the content.

If there is nothing like this you can reboot the system because there is no mkfs command running which implies that the formating process has been finished.

Hellow · 14. August 2012

Sorry, I was on a trip back then.

Here's the log:

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root@OMV:~# ls -alh /tmp
total 2,4M
drwxrwxrwt  4 root           root            420 14 août  20:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root           root           4,0K  5 août  22:09 ..
-rw-------  1 root           root              0  5 août  23:20 dkms.2VGEvWq8
-rw-------  1 root           root              0  5 août  23:19 dkms.4i3miXL2
-rw-------  1 root           root              0  5 août  23:19 dkms.5h6Py0qq
-rw-------  1 root           root              0  5 août  23:20 dkms.5yB267hg
-rw-------  1 root           root              0  5 août  23:20 dkms.a1tn75dp
-rw-------  1 root           root              0  5 août  23:20 dkms.BkSkns4n
-rw-------  1 root           root              0  5 août  23:19 dkms.EjwBrjPq
-rw-------  1 root           root              0  5 août  23:20 dkms.ODyTcSoy
-rw-------  1 root           root              0  5 août  23:20 dkms.QI0gYP5L
-rw-------  1 root           root              0  5 août  23:19 dkms.t73kT4wq
-rw-------  1 root           root              0  5 août  23:19 dkms.UYtu30mI
-rw-------  1 root           root              0  5 août  23:19 dkms.WLDoDn5N
-rw-------  1 root           root              0  5 août  23:19 dkms.XY9qYkey
-rw-------  1 root           root              0  5 août  23:19 dkms.ypr4oGJN
-rw-r--r--  1 openmediavault openmediavault   55  5 août  23:56 omv-initfs@_dev_                              sda.build
drwxr-xr-x  8           7900           7900  820  5 août  23:38 spl-0.6.0-rc8
-rw-r--r--  1 root           root           445K 26 mars  21:21 spl-0.6.0-rc8.ta                              r.gz
drwxr-xr-x 12           7900           7900 1,1K  5 août  23:44 zfs-0.6.0-rc8
-rw-r--r--  1 root           root           1,9M 26 mars  21:20 zfs-0.6.0-rc8.ta                              r.gz

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Server rebooted, my raid5 doesn't appear. As it using a GPT label, I tried to mklabel it in MSDOS format...
So need to format it again

UPDATE: I used GhostParted to format the whole array. It took less than 2 minutes to do its work. But by now, OMV doesn't recognize the FS in the proper section of the GUI.

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