Hello,
I have been using OMV for a little over a year. I started out with 3x4TB drives in a software RAID5 using xfs filesystem. I eventually made it to 6x4TB drives using the same configuration.
I chose to use the software raid as I wasn't an expert on setting up the hardware (RocketRaid 2720) controller and I didn't want to have to pull system from shelf and connect keyboard and monitor every time I add a drive. However, four or five times during the last year the raid would fail with a missing drive. With the help from the forum users here, I would be able to put it back together using cli without data loss. So, I didn't worry too much. But, last week it happened again with two missing drives. I lost all of the data. Luckily, I had the important data on a backup.
I decided that I would take the time and get the raid controller drivers and webui working before storing data again. I am hoping this will be more reliable. I was able to install the latest drivers and webui. I used the webui to create a RAID 5 with 3 drives. I then setup the OMV apps that I normally use for testing. After that, I added another drive to the RAID via the webui. It took about 2 days, but finally completed this morning. I even received an email from the app saying the expansion was complete.
In OMV, I had to reboot the system before it detected the larger disk size. Shouldn't it have detected it when I clicked on Scan?
But, when I click on Resize, nothing happens.
What should I do now?
Thanks, Eddie