After a day, Synology support got back to me and asked me to send them a set of system logs. I did. After another day, a got an email saying that the file system had some problems probably, in their opinion, from ungraceful shutdowns associated with power loss. They wanted … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2014
Failing to expand a Synology volume
It's been almost 24 hours, and I haven't heard anything from Synology's support team. I thought I'd try some things on my own. Maybe one of the packages is keeping the system from expanding. I shut down the media server: Then I shut down the time backup … [Read more...]
Trying to expand a Synology volume
The Synology array finally finished its scrubbing operation. It took almost three days -- actually longer than a rebuild. After scrubbing, I tried once more to expand the volume: The storage manager showed that it was confirming the parity, but with no progress … [Read more...]