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Problem Setting Up Used Hard Drive With a New Volume in FreeNAS

Bug #141: Problem Setting Up Used Hard Drive With a New Volume in FreeNAS

Added by Daniel Curtis over 12 years ago. Updated almost 11 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Daniel Curtis
Category:
Network Attached Storage
Target version:
FreeNAS 9.x
Start date:
07/09/2013
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
5:30 h

Description

During the initial deployment of the DMZ NAS I came across an error during the creation of a new volume.
The error stated:

Error: Unable to GPT format the disk "ada0"

The previous operating system used was Ubuntu on an ext4 filesystem, which used the MRB partitioning mechanism. A few forum suggested zeroing the disk and starting over that way, and I did just that. I opened a shell from the web interface and zeroed the disk:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada0

The process took about 5 hours to complete, however when it finished the Volume Manager created the new volume without any problems

DC Updated by Daniel Curtis over 12 years ago Actions
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I have noticed that while in the web shell on FreeNAS, during the zeroing process, you can press Ctrl+t and get some raw statistics.

This is not of any particular relevance, other than seeing the immediate progress of the zeroing process.

DC Updated by Daniel Curtis almost 11 years ago Actions
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  • Project changed from 38 to FreeBSD Administration
  • Category set to Network Attached Storage
  • Target version set to FreeNAS 9.x
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