XigmaNAS

I'd like to start by thanking those who respond in advance and for your time =)

I'll do my best to give as many details as briefly as possible...Here are some quick specs from the help report generator page:

NAS4Free 9.1.0.1 (revision 847) x86-liveCD; COMPAQ CPQ0968 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz 2552MiB RAM

I installed NAS4FREE on an internal SATA (1tb) hard-drive. Sorry I can't remember the exact install parameters, as it was about a year ago. In any case, I booted from a USB drive and installed NAS4FREE on the hard-drive with the option to use the remaining space as a share drive (from what I think happened, NAS4FREE created 2 partitions...a boot partition and the partition for the share drive...or maybe I'm wrong). Long-story-short, I can no longer boot from the hard-drive. I was able to boot from a fresh NAS4FREE install using USB drive and/or CD. When I go to "Manage" and add the disk, I can see the 1tb drive (but it only shows up as one drive). I can successfully add it, then mount it...but it only shows the partition that has the original NAS4FREE install (ada0), and not the share/secondary drive/partition. I can see the contents of ada0. I haven't formatted the drive or done anything do it. Is there any way can see/get/mount the contents of the share partition? There's way too much data on there that I need...Or is there anyway to restore the first partition so that it can boot again without wiping out the share partition (if it's still there)? I do have a backup of the config file from months ago, but don't really know how to restore it and am afraid to try anything at this point.

I've been searching online and the forums, but can't seem to find any solutions...If you need more info, I will do my best to give as much as you need =)

Please help!!

Hard to jugde what happened, can you post the SMART values of the drive?

You can boot the PC with e.g. UBCD:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
run Parted Magic and check the disks and see if the partitions and data are still there.

By the way, having a backup is not the worst idea.

crowi wrote:Hard to jugde what happened, can you post the SMART values of the drive?

You can boot the PC with e.g. UBCD:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
run Parted Magic and check the disks and see if the partitions and data are still there.

By the way, having a backup is not the worst idea.

Thanks for the response! The problem is with the internal drive which I thought had 2 partitions on it that NAS4FREE made during installation (one partition for the NAS4FREE OS, and a share partition for storage). When I boot using a fresh install of NAS4FREE from CD and add the internal hard drive, it shows up as ada0. When I mount ada0, all I can see is partition 1 (which is only like 500mb in size). So why is partition 2 not showing up in NAS4FREE? How could I access it?

I'm assuming another fix would be to somehow repair the original NAS4FREE installation on partition 1, but don't know how to do this...Also I'm afraid tampering with this might mess up everything else on the drive...Here is a screenshot of what happens when I try to boot from the hard-drive:

When I boot using a fresh install of NAS4FREE from CD and add the internal hard drive, it shows up as ada0.

So your system is booting N4F, then please post the SMART values.

You can also boot your system from the N4F LiveCD or LiveUSB and import the disks, as long as you don't format the disks or dele partitions, you won't loose data.
Btw, UBCD / Parted Magic is a rescue environment, you can use to get your data back or at least to see what might has happened to your disk.

Generally it is a bad idea to have the system and data on one disk, use the embedded install on a USB drive.
Second, you should backup the N4F configuration on a safe place outside the NAS.
Third, a data backup makes sense (I think I mentioned this before).

crowi wrote:

When I boot using a fresh install of NAS4FREE from CD and add the internal hard drive, it shows up as ada0.

So your system is booting N4F, then please post the SMART values.

You can also boot your system from the N4F LiveCD or LiveUSB and import the disks, as long as you don't format the disks or dele partitions, you won't loose data.
Btw, UBCD / Parted Magic is a rescue environment, you can use to get your data back or at least to see what might has happened to your disk.

Generally it is a bad idea to have the system and data on one disk, use the embedded install on a USB drive.
Second, you should backup the N4F configuration on a safe place outside the NAS.
Third, a data backup makes sense (I think I mentioned this before).

My apologies, I'll try to explain a little further. I can't get in to the web gui if I boot from the hard drive. What is shown in the screenshot is as far as I can get if I boot from the internal hard-drive. I can boot from N4F LiveCD, temporarily setup ip address to access webgui. From there, I can add and mount the internal drive (ada0), but it is only showing the first partition.

What happens when you press the import disks button?

crowi wrote:What happens when you press the import disks button?

It shows the internal hard drive as ada0. However, after I mount the drive I can only access and see the contents of partition 1 (the broken N4F installation) and is only 500mb.

So, please post the outputs of:
a) Diagnostics|Information|Disks
b) Diagnostics|Information|Partitions
c) Diagnostics|Information|S.M.A.R.T.
d) Diagnostics|Log

This is the reason because is NOT recommended to use same disk to boot and for data.

I wish that you can recover your valuable data, when this happens, please boot from a USB ( N4F embeded ) and use entire disk for data as crowi says several times.

raulfg3 wrote:This is the reason because is NOT recommended to use same disk to boot and for data.

I wish that you can recover your valuable data, when this happens, please boot from a USB ( N4F embeded ) and use entire disk for data as crowi says several times.

I totally agree. I def see that now...In the past I had misgivings about always booting from a USB because it just didn't seem right...I mean I've always been accustomed to computers booting from a local, internal hard drive...Also, I thought the data was on a separate partition so it would be safe...I really don't know why that partition is not showing up....I'll try to have the diagnostic info crowi asked for up soon.

Thanks again for everyone helping out!

crowi wrote:So, please post the outputs of:
a) Diagnostics|Information|Disks
b) Diagnostics|Information|Partitions
c) Diagnostics|Information|S.M.A.R.T.
d) Diagnostics|Log

OK, here is everything crowi asked for...I'm relieved to see the 2nd partition in the "Partitions" section...So now how do I access or mount it?


a) Diagnostics|Information|Disks:

List of detected disks
Disk Size Device model Serial number Temperature Status
ada0 953870MB ST1000DM003-1CH162 Z1D7G7C5 40 °C ONLINE


b) Diagnostics|Information|Partitions:

Device /dev/ada0 - ST1000DM003-1CH162 CC47
******* Working on device /dev/ada0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=1938021 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=1938021 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 771057 (376 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 47/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 771120, size 1952748945 (953490 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 48/ head 0/ sector 1;
end: cyl 768/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>


c) Diagnostics|Information|S.M.A.R.T.

Device /dev/ada0 - ST1000DM003-1CH162 CC47
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF)
Device Model: ST1000DM003-1CH162
Serial Number: Z1D7G7C5
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 06520d764
Firmware Version: CC47
User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-2, ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 3b
SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Wed Oct 15 16:40:40 2014 UTC

==> WARNING: A firmware update for this drive is available,
see the following Seagate web pages:
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/e ... Q/207931en
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/e ... Q/223651en

SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 575) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x73) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
No Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 104) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x3085) SCT Status supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 114 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 74711608
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 098 097 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 89
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 081 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 124099683
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 092 092 000 Old_age Always - 7316
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 90
183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 0 0
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 061 053 045 Old_age Always - 39 (Min/Max 39/40)
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 68
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 084 084 000 Old_age Always - 33267
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 039 047 000 Old_age Always - 39 (0 26 0 0 0)
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 7228h+43m+58.142s
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 4778431547
242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 20618633423

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]


SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.



d) Diagnostics|Log

Sorry, I don't have the logs from yesterday when I mounted the drive...

Nothing strange from the values, but the log would be helpful.

Try UBCD (start Parted Magic) to access your disk/partition/data

crowi wrote:Nothing strange from the values, but the log would be helpful.

Try UBCD (start Parted Magic) to access your disk/partition/data

Will do. Is there a way to mount the second partition using N4F?

I wouldn't tamper too much with it.

First try to get access to your partition.
Next, back up the files if possible.
Then, you can play with it again.