HDD/Partition initialization problems

[jaker]

I left the reset/format functionality running overnight and it went allright.

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NAS server in Setup Mode

(re-)Start the setup task :   Reset internal disk(s)
Started on:   12 August 2020, 20:45:38
Ended at:   12 August 2020, 21:15:07

Setup task reset.sh is now running
Found disk: sda(S2H7JD1ZA20706)
Format partition sda8 with file system ext4:
=>mke2fs 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017)
Creating filesystem with 487653137 4k blocks and 121913344 inodes
Filesystem UUID: d7b7ae8f-ba1a-479c-b38d-a51a5862533d
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
102400000, 214990848
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (262144 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
=>Formatting sda8 succeeded
Update partition type on sda8: OK
Remove orphan shares: OK
Setup task reset.sh is ended

After this I restarted the NAS.

info2_after_removing_zfs_member_and_restart.png

Looks good. Perhaps conclusions from all this hazzle could be that it was used hard disk and most probably it had that zfs_member thing there all the time. It was just very hard to get rid of.

Thank you for all your efforts.

[Jocko]

Hi

The issue is now solved and indeed it allowed me to deepen several things.

most probably it had that zfs_member thing there all the time. It was just very hard to get rid of.

What I do not understand is you are not the first LACIE user who installs our firmware on its nas. So this should happen at every time :scratch Maybe there was an issue when you have reset your disk... or not

To restore fully fw version you have to overwrite a patched file sent previously. So run

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mv /usr/share/setup/set_fs.org /usr/share/setup/set_fs

[jaker]

While I was searching about ZFS member problems (can't remember keywords I used in Google anymore), I think I saw something that mentioned that this ZFS is hard to get rid of. Could it be something that survives normal install format/mbr creation and it would still be recognized as a ZFS member. This is something I know very little about so I'm just quessing.

Anyway thank you for everything. I moved the set_fs back and I think the NAS is now fully functional.