Missing dataset??

[robodanhereford]

I hope I have the right terminology here!

Ok so I started a fresh with my freenas install and re-imported the volume, I assumed all was ok but then I noticed my TV dataset was missing, I wasnt too concerned with the contents so I tried to add a new TV dataset only to be told that the path /mnt/Media/TV already exists.

I can browse to this location via FTP and the contents are there, but I cant recreate a SMB share to this dataset to view the files on my kodi box.

Is there anyway to sort this or do i have to start a new dataset?

 

[kdragon75]

Kinda hard to help with the limited info you provided.
My understanding so far: New FreeNAS install, imported old FreeNAS pool, discovered missing dataset but found a folder with matching name. Is that right? Did the old build have any other pools?

For starters please provide the outputs of the following commands in code tags:
zpool list -v
ls -lah /mnt
for((i=1;i<=10;i+=2)); do echo "derp $i times"; done

 

[garm]

“derp $i times”??

 

[kdragon75]

“derp $i times”??

Shhhh...

 

[robodanhereford]

Shhhh...

Urm... What does derp $i times do??

 

[robodanhereford]

Kinda hard to help with the limited info you provided.
My understanding so far: New FreeNAS install, imported old FreeNAS pool, discovered missing dataset but found a folder with matching name. Is that right? Did the old build have any other pools?

For starters please provide the outputs of the following commands in code tags:
zpool list -v
ls -lah /mnt
for((i=1;i<=10;i+=2)); do echo "derp $i times"; done

Code:

zpool list -v												 
NAME									 SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  EXPANDSZ   FRAG	
CAP  DEDUP  HEALTH  ALTROOT													 
Media								   1.81T   388G  1.43T		 -	 0%	
20%  1.00x  ONLINE  /mnt														
  mirror								1.81T   388G  1.43T		 -	 0%	
20%																			 
   gptid/b1121764-508f-11e8-9733-d0509986abde	  -	  -	  -		 -   
   -	  -																	 
   gptid/b21e02d1-508f-11e8-9733-d0509986abde	  -	  -	  -		 -   
   -	  -																	 
freenas-boot							 296G   847M   295G		 -	  -	
 0%  1.00x  ONLINE  -														   
  ada2p2								 296G   847M   295G		 -	  -	
 0%

Code:

ls -lah /mnt												 
total 28																		
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   128B May 16 12:33 .								
drwxr-xr-x  21 root  wheel	28B May 16 12:33 ..							   
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel	 5B May 16 11:23 md_size						 
drwxr-xr-x   8 root  wheel	 8B May 17 12:28 Media

I hope I did the code tags right??

 

[kdragon75]

Urm... What does derp $i times do??

Code:

[root@FreeNAS ~]# for((i=1;i<=10;i+=2)); do echo "derp $i times"; done															 
derp 1 times																														
derp 3 times																														
derp 5 times																														
derp 7 times																														
derp 9 times																														
[root@FreeNAS ~]#	

Sometimes when I have nothing to do I tell people to do meaningless things... It's cheap entertainment.

 

[kdragon75]

Code:

ls -lah /mnt												
total 28																		
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   128B May 16 12:33 .								
drwxr-xr-x  21 root  wheel	28B May 16 12:33 ..							  
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel	 5B May 16 11:23 md_size						
drwxr-xr-x   8 root  wheel	 8B May 17 12:28 Media

I hope I did the code tags right??

Looks good. You just have the two drives? I should have asked for zfs list -v and ls -lah /mnt/Media.
Sorry about that.

 

[robodanhereford]

Looks good. You just have the two drives? I should have asked for zfs list -v and ls -lah /mnt/Media.
Sorry about that.

Code:

 sudo zfs list -v
Password:
invalid option 'v'
usage:
		list [-Hp] [-r|-d max] [-o property[,...]] [-s property]...
			[-S property]... [-t type[,...]] [filesystem|volume|snapshot] ...

The following properties are supported:

		PROPERTY	   EDIT  INHERIT   VALUES

		available		NO	   NO   <size>
		clones		   NO	   NO   <dataset>[,...]
		compressratio	NO	   NO   <1.00x or higher if compressed>
		creation		 NO	   NO   <date>
		defer_destroy	NO	   NO   yes | no
		logicalreferenced  NO	   NO   <size>
		logicalused	  NO	   NO   <size>
		mounted		  NO	   NO   yes | no
		origin		   NO	   NO   <snapshot>
		receive_resume_token  NO	   NO   <string token>
		refcompressratio  NO	   NO   <1.00x or higher if compressed>
		referenced	   NO	   NO   <size>
		type			 NO	   NO   filesystem | volume | snapshot | bookmark
		used			 NO	   NO   <size>
		usedbychildren   NO	   NO   <size>
		usedbydataset	NO	   NO   <size>
		usedbyrefreservation  NO	   NO   <size>
		usedbysnapshots  NO	   NO   <size>
		userrefs		 NO	   NO   <count>
		written		  NO	   NO   <size>
		aclinherit	  YES	  YES   discard | noallow | restricted | passthrough | passthrough-x
		aclmode		 YES	  YES   discard | groupmask | passthrough | restricted
		atime		   YES	  YES   on | off
		canmount		YES	   NO   on | off | noauto
		casesensitivity  NO	  YES   sensitive | insensitive | mixed
		checksum		YES	  YES   on | off | fletcher2 | fletcher4 | sha256 | sha512 | skein | edonr
		compression	 YES	  YES   on | off | lzjb | gzip | gzip-[1-9] | zle | lz4
		copies		  YES	  YES   1 | 2 | 3
		dedup		   YES	  YES   on | off | verify | sha256[,verify], sha512[,verify], skein[,verify], edonr,verify
		devices		 YES	  YES   on | off
		exec			YES	  YES   on | off
		filesystem_count YES	   NO   <count>
		filesystem_limit YES	   NO   <count> | none
		jailed		  YES	  YES   on | off
		logbias		 YES	  YES   latency | throughput
		mlslabel		YES	  YES   <sensitivity label>
		mountpoint	  YES	  YES   <path> | legacy | none
		nbmand		  YES	  YES   on | off
		normalization	NO	  YES   none | formC | formD | formKC | formKD
		primarycache	YES	  YES   all | none | metadata
		quota		   YES	   NO   <size> | none
		readonly		YES	  YES   on | off
		recordsize	  YES	  YES   512 to 1M, power of 2
		redundant_metadata YES	  YES   all | most
		refquota		YES	   NO   <size> | none
		refreservation  YES	   NO   <size> | none
		reservation	 YES	   NO   <size> | none
		secondarycache  YES	  YES   all | none | metadata
		setuid		  YES	  YES   on | off
		sharenfs		YES	  YES   on | off | share(1M) options
		sharesmb		YES	  YES   on | off | sharemgr(1M) options
		snapdir		 YES	  YES   hidden | visible
		snapshot_count  YES	   NO   <count>
		snapshot_limit  YES	   NO   <count> | none
		sync			YES	  YES   standard | always | disabled
		utf8only		 NO	  YES   on | off
		version		 YES	   NO   1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | current
		volblocksize	 NO	  YES   512 to 128k, power of 2
		volmode		 YES	  YES   default | geom | dev | none
		volsize		 YES	   NO   <size>
		vscan		   YES	  YES   on | off
		xattr		   YES	  YES   on | off
		userused@...	 NO	   NO   <size>
		groupused@...	NO	   NO   <size>
		userquota@...   YES	   NO   <size> | none
		groupquota@...  YES	   NO   <size> | none
		written@<snap>   NO	   NO   <size>

Sizes are specified in bytes with standard units such as K, M, G, etc.

User-defined properties can be specified by using a name containing a colon (:).

The {user|group}{used|quota}@ properties must be appended with
a user or group specifier of one of these forms:
	POSIX name	  (eg: "matt")
	POSIX id		(eg: "126829")
	SMB name@domain (eg: "matt@sun")
	SMB SID		 (eg: "S-1-234-567-89")

Code:

ls -lah /mnt/Media
total 84
drwxr-xr-x  8 root	wheel	  8B May 17 12:28 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root	wheel	128B May 16 12:33 ..
drwxrwxr-x  6 nobody  Adults	 6B May 17 14:06 fone
drwxr-xr-x  6 root	wheel	  6B May 15 10:09 jails
drwxrwxr-x  2 root	1004	   3B May  8 23:10 KidzMoviez
drwxrwxr-x+ 2 nobody  Adults	56B May 21 22:31 Movies
drwxrwxr-x+ 5 nobody  1003	   7B May 17 12:50 Photos
drwxrwxrwx  8 root	wheel	  9B May  7 00:38 TV

 

[kdragon75]

And for some reason I always thing zfs list has a -v but it does not... I just tend to tack -v onto everything. Try zfs list. Now I'm the Derp.

 

[robodanhereford]

And for some reason I always thing zfs list has a -v but it does not... I just tend to tack -v onto everything. Try zfs list. Now I'm the Derp.

Hows this?

Code:

% zfs list
NAME													 USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
Media													411G  1.35T  18.5G  /mnt/Media
Media/.system										   2.75M  1.35T	96K  legacy
Media/.system/configs-b3147af497d748f98f845f65b942be53  1.63M  1.35T  1.63M  legacy
Media/.system/cores									  580K  1.35T   580K  legacy
Media/.system/rrd-b3147af497d748f98f845f65b942be53		88K  1.35T	88K  legacy
Media/.system/samba4									 292K  1.35T   292K  legacy
Media/.system/syslog-b3147af497d748f98f845f65b942be53	 88K  1.35T	88K  legacy
Media/KidzMoviez										5.47G  1.35T  5.47G  /mnt/Media/KidzMoviez
Media/Movies											 377G  1.35T   377G  /mnt/Media/Movies
Media/Photos											7.55G  1.35T  7.55G  /mnt/Media/Photos
Media/Videos											95.1M  1.35T  95.1M  /mnt/Media/Videos
Media/fone											   216M  1.35T   216M  /mnt/Media/fone
Media/jails											 2.31G  1.35T   104K  /mnt/Media/jails
Media/jails/.warden-template-pluginjail-11.0-x64		 539M  1.35T   539M  /mnt/Media/jails/.warden-template-pluginjail-11.0-x64
Media/jails/.warden-template-standard-11.0-x64		  1.78G  1.35T  1.78G  /mnt/Media/jails/.warden-template-standard-11.0-x64
freenas-boot											 847M   286G	64K  none
freenas-boot/ROOT										839M   286G	29K  none
freenas-boot/ROOT/Initial-Install						  1K   286G   836M  legacy
freenas-boot/ROOT/default								839M   286G   837M  legacy
freenas-boot/grub									   6.97M   286G  6.97M  legacy

 

[kdragon75]

That's what I needed!
So it looks like you have a TV folder on your "root" data set Media/ (/mnt/Media/TV) but not a TV dataset. This is why you cant add a new TV dataset, the name is taken by the folder.

I can't recreate a SMB share to this dataset to view the files on my kodi box.

What error do you get when trying to add a SMB share? It looks like the permissions are wide open to anyone and everyone. I know you can share a folder on the root dataset as thats where I have my public share setup. (sloppy and needs to be fixed but I'm lazy)

 

[robodanhereford]

Ah yes ok... Well embarrassingly I didnt actually try to create the SMB share since wiping freenas I got as far as trying to create the dataset (basically following my instructions) I hit the error and thought i'd lost it all. It was only by chance whilst FTP'ing that I realised I could see the content and knew I still had the data.

Ok so i guess my question SHOULD be, why do I no longer have the TV dataset and does it actually matter? I am assuming it should matter as I cant properly control the permissions and I would like to rectify that.

I have just created the SMB share for TV although i cant browse it till I get home so not sure if it has worked or not? Scratch that it has worked

 

[kdragon75]

I can't properly control the permissions

Sure you can. You can modify the rot dataset permissions or use the cli to set simple permissions. If you did have a tv dataset before it's possible it was "Tv" or "tv" as they would not match "TV". You can always add "tv" and move the contents over via cp -R /mnt/Media/TV /mnt/Media/tv then once you verify your files are moved and safe, rm /mnt/Media/TV and rename the new dataset to TV.

Personally I like having things in their own datasets for snapshotting and general manageability. But I don't because I'm lazy :D

 

[robodanhereford]

OK cool I have just done that this morning. Had a few issues such as the new 'tv' folder ended up having a 'TV' subfolder inside with all the content. That was easy to sort.

Also had problems removing the old directory so ended up using this command after CD'ing to the /mnt/Media directory. sudo rm -rf TV/ that removed the folder just fine.

Cant see how to rename the dataset? but I have gone ahead and re-created the SMB share and can see the files just fine.

Do you know what, I think my Nas is setup lovely now :)

 

[dsinwv]

I have a similar situation and problem. My FreeNAS 9.3 server ceased to work after a power outage. A brief search suggested that a defective flash drive might cause the problem, so I decided to use a different flash drive and install the latest version of FreeNAS (11.1) on it. I finally found the cause for an unable to locate drive as a signal cable that had come loose. After finally getting the FreeNAS server visible in Windows 10 File Explorer, I can only see limited folders and files (all under the Movies folder).

I only have one SMB share at this point for the root of the ZFS volume (i.e., /mnt/Shared_Storage). Perhaps I need more. When I try to add a datashare for "Movies" to the Media datashare, I get the message "The path /mnt/Shared_Storage/Media/Movies already exists." Likewise when I try to add "TV Shows".

What do I need to do to get things working again? I have attached a file with shell output showing what the system looks like.

 

[kdragon75]

"Yarn pictures"
You have the most exciting files I have ever seen!
Sorry I have nothing to add. I just thought that was a funny folder name.

 

[kdragon75]

Also please start a new thread with all the required details and the output of zpool list -v and your smb config.

 

[dsinwv]

Also please start a new thread with all the required details and the output of zpool list -v and your smb config.

Thanks, I just did that. I do not know how to provide the smb config information you requested.