Beiträge von aemathien

    Thank you very much for the responses!
    It seems that I need to have a deep thinking on what I need and what I want... and to meditate on the difference between RAID and backup.
    This is a good opportunity to do it!


    Indeed I used the admin login, I will try with root one.


    The main reason to add the two new disks is that my NAS is now full ;(
    When I created the NAS last year I wanted to test the OMV solution (free solution, large community of users) because I had reached limitations with my Synology NAS and I decided to start with 3 disks (budget).
    I chose WD Red 3TB, same reference for the 6 disks.
    I use it mainly for media center purpose (Plex Media Server) and for some data storage (personal videos for example).
    I understand now that this is not the best option for the second one, and I will think about finding a way to secure these data on an alternative solution. I will save the important data on something else.


    Concerning adding disks to the RAID array, if I remember well I did it once last year to add the fourth disk and it worked perfectly.
    I must have used an option in the OMV software.
    I don't understand why it is not easily feasible this time.


    I think I cannot restart from scratch without losing all my media center data because I have no other disk capacity to welcome these 9TB data.
    I will update the post when I am ready to progress on this.


    Thank you again for helping!
    Have a nice Sunday.

    Hi guys,


    I have an OpenMediaVault NAS configured with 4 WD Red 4TB in a RAID5 array.
    I want to add 2 new disks to this array and unfortunately I cannot find how to do it.
    I physically installed the disks in the server and start the NAS.
    I click on Grow button in the RAID management tab but my disks were shown in spare in the details (below the details with one added disk, I decided to unplug the other one to perform the extension with one disk at a time...).
    I have read several posts and it seems that a command line can solve this issue (mdadm --grow...) but I don't know where to enter this command.
    If I connect a screen and a keyboard to my server I have a login line but if I enter my login and pswd the page actualize and ask me again login and pswd.
    I am a complete beginner in NAS and Linux in general so I hope that someone can help me :)


    Thank you in advance!


    Version : 1.2
    Creation Time : Fri Dec 9 01:30:37 2016
    Raid Level : raid5
    Array Size : 8790405120 (8383.18 GiB 9001.37 GB)
    Used Dev Size : 2930135040 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB)
    Raid Devices : 4
    Total Devices : 5
    Persistence : Superblock is persistent


    Intent Bitmap : Internal


    Update Time : Sun Aug 27 01:12:16 2017
    State : clean
    Active Devices : 4
    Working Devices : 5
    Failed Devices : 0
    Spare Devices : 1


    Layout : left-symmetric
    Chunk Size : 512K


    Name : NASnicoOMV:Cube2 (local to host NASnicoOMV)
    UUID : f8b8f2fc:ef76fb8d:d603eeee:ca66164c
    Events : 10022


    Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
    0 8 0 0 active sync /dev/sda
    1 8 16 1 active sync /dev/sdb
    2 8 32 2 active sync /dev/sdc
    3 8 48 3 active sync /dev/sdd


    4 8 64 - spare /dev/sde

    Hi guys,


    I have an OpenMediaVault NAS configured with 4 WD Red 4TB in a RAID5 array.
    I want to add 2 new disks to this array and unfortunately I cannot find how to do it.
    I physically installed the disks in the server and start the NAS.
    I click on Grow button in the RAID management tab but my disks were shown in spare in the details (below the details with one added disk, I decided to unplug the other one to perform the extension with one disk at a time...).
    I have read several posts and it seems that a command line can solve this issue (mdadm --grow...) but I don't know where to enter this command.
    If I connect a screen and a keyboard to my server I have a login line but if I enter my login and pswd the page actualize and ask me again login and pswd.
    I am a complete beginner in NAS and Linux in general so I hope that someone can help me :)


    Thank you in advance!


    Version : 1.2
    Creation Time : Fri Dec 9 01:30:37 2016
    Raid Level : raid5
    Array Size : 8790405120 (8383.18 GiB 9001.37 GB)
    Used Dev Size : 2930135040 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB)
    Raid Devices : 4
    Total Devices : 5
    Persistence : Superblock is persistent


    Intent Bitmap : Internal


    Update Time : Sun Aug 27 01:12:16 2017
    State : clean
    Active Devices : 4
    Working Devices : 5
    Failed Devices : 0
    Spare Devices : 1


    Layout : left-symmetric
    Chunk Size : 512K


    Name : NASnicoOMV:Cube2 (local to host NASnicoOMV)
    UUID : f8b8f2fc:ef76fb8d:d603eeee:ca66164c
    Events : 10022


    Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
    0 8 0 0 active sync /dev/sda
    1 8 16 1 active sync /dev/sdb
    2 8 32 2 active sync /dev/sdc
    3 8 48 3 active sync /dev/sdd


    4 8 64 - spare /dev/sde