Aaron Matheson
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- Feb 24, 2014
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Hi All
This is the first time i am posting on this forum, so please let me know if missed any of the rules, I hope this is the right place. I am sure there are some typo's which i will fix tomorrow as it is getting late and need to get this posted and not delay any longer.
I am new to FreeNAS but i use to use a Unix box for my job from 2000 to 2004, i think the version was HP-UX. After the last few day of trying to use the command line I think i am more then a little rusty, about all I remember there is no undo button and never to use "rm -rf *.*" unless you want to nuke everything in your current dir and below. :(
I have been testing freeNAS for the last 3 to 4 weeks with no major problem, just some minor ones with some rust on permissions for users and groups and how it all works.
Note: I am testing this on a old desktop "dell optiplex gx 620" with 4 gb of ram and therefore using UFS and not ZFS.
Last week i decided to tackle setting up a media on FreeNAS, i did not get far before i realized that i still had the permissions wrong on one of my drives, i tried changing the permissions under Volume in the GUI and i could not get it to work this of course was the one drive that I setup using UFS legacy manager as it was the only new drive (WD 3tb red drive for NAS). I did not try any cmd line methods due to the rust mentioned above. Before i unmounted the UFS drive i tried to unmount and remount my other drives by using the Imp Vol on the GUI, a few snags with one vol but after a few tries and a reboot all was good so i tried the UFS drive and my Freenas world crashed. I could not remount it or do much of anything could not even sent the shutdown cmd from the keyboard plugged into the NAS, had to force a powerdown with the power button. (I knew at this point could be in some deep "do-do" and of course the all the rebooting after this did nothing. I have tried reinstalling Freenas (9.2.0 on the same USB) - no luck then i updated to 9.2.1 with a fresh install which was successful for the install but not for my issue.
I know I have stepped into somewhere you should not go, or done something only new bee's do. I have all but accepted the data on the drive is gone, i just want to understand what i have done, so i try and reduce the chance repeating this muckup going forward.
I trying to solve this i have tried to fsck and it does not recognizse the UFS drive, however when i list the drives with 'View disks" it is there. I believe i when i first set the drive using UFS Legacy that it was setup for windows file system "NTFS".
Possible related issue or 2nd issue.
The other strange thing i noticed is the mnt dir is no longer connected to the root, even after the clean downloads and reinstalls (both versions). I could try and manually mount it but i want to know if this is normal or not. The place where i noticed this is in the GUI when i was about add a user with a home directory and all that was there was "/" and i had successfully imported to 2 hdd and there was nothing there. This is where i decided to get help because i do not know if the 2 things are related or separate issues. I have search the forum the closest thing i could find mentioned manually load the fuse, which i do not know about so i am not going to try without more some guidance.
I have skimmed the powerpoint 4 newbe's which like alot but have not found my solution yet as it seem to aimed at ZFS users which i do not think transfer to UFS users.
I will update with some screen shots tomorrow as i had to shutdown and move the NAS box for other reasons. I have attached the error that came up the last time when i click on change permission under volume for the 3tb hdd.
Thanks for any info.
This is the first time i am posting on this forum, so please let me know if missed any of the rules, I hope this is the right place. I am sure there are some typo's which i will fix tomorrow as it is getting late and need to get this posted and not delay any longer.
I am new to FreeNAS but i use to use a Unix box for my job from 2000 to 2004, i think the version was HP-UX. After the last few day of trying to use the command line I think i am more then a little rusty, about all I remember there is no undo button and never to use "rm -rf *.*" unless you want to nuke everything in your current dir and below. :(
I have been testing freeNAS for the last 3 to 4 weeks with no major problem, just some minor ones with some rust on permissions for users and groups and how it all works.
Note: I am testing this on a old desktop "dell optiplex gx 620" with 4 gb of ram and therefore using UFS and not ZFS.
- FreeNAS version and platform: 9.2.0 and 9.2.1 64 bit
- General hardware information dell optiplex gx 620 with 4 gb ram (also tried to upgrade to 6 gb no help),
- I will have to lookup the Motherboard model, and Specific hardware information (Network card chipset, Raid controller chipset, etc.) info and update later.
Last week i decided to tackle setting up a media on FreeNAS, i did not get far before i realized that i still had the permissions wrong on one of my drives, i tried changing the permissions under Volume in the GUI and i could not get it to work this of course was the one drive that I setup using UFS legacy manager as it was the only new drive (WD 3tb red drive for NAS). I did not try any cmd line methods due to the rust mentioned above. Before i unmounted the UFS drive i tried to unmount and remount my other drives by using the Imp Vol on the GUI, a few snags with one vol but after a few tries and a reboot all was good so i tried the UFS drive and my Freenas world crashed. I could not remount it or do much of anything could not even sent the shutdown cmd from the keyboard plugged into the NAS, had to force a powerdown with the power button. (I knew at this point could be in some deep "do-do" and of course the all the rebooting after this did nothing. I have tried reinstalling Freenas (9.2.0 on the same USB) - no luck then i updated to 9.2.1 with a fresh install which was successful for the install but not for my issue.
I know I have stepped into somewhere you should not go, or done something only new bee's do. I have all but accepted the data on the drive is gone, i just want to understand what i have done, so i try and reduce the chance repeating this muckup going forward.
I trying to solve this i have tried to fsck and it does not recognizse the UFS drive, however when i list the drives with 'View disks" it is there. I believe i when i first set the drive using UFS Legacy that it was setup for windows file system "NTFS".
Possible related issue or 2nd issue.
The other strange thing i noticed is the mnt dir is no longer connected to the root, even after the clean downloads and reinstalls (both versions). I could try and manually mount it but i want to know if this is normal or not. The place where i noticed this is in the GUI when i was about add a user with a home directory and all that was there was "/" and i had successfully imported to 2 hdd and there was nothing there. This is where i decided to get help because i do not know if the 2 things are related or separate issues. I have search the forum the closest thing i could find mentioned manually load the fuse, which i do not know about so i am not going to try without more some guidance.
I have skimmed the powerpoint 4 newbe's which like alot but have not found my solution yet as it seem to aimed at ZFS users which i do not think transfer to UFS users.
I will update with some screen shots tomorrow as i had to shutdown and move the NAS box for other reasons. I have attached the error that came up the last time when i click on change permission under volume for the 3tb hdd.
Thanks for any info.
