HDD/Partition initialization problems

[Jocko]

All your ouptuts are ok :scratch and then it is only blkid command which has an amazing behaviour on your nas.

@fvdw
maybe if you compile the binary strace for jaker we may get some additional information to understand that.

I go to post you a patched format script where I disabled the final check on the fs (I can not use the busybox applet instead as it doesn't return fs type)

This will allow you to update the nas database after formatting and get vol-A

[Jocko]

As there is no volume available on your nas you can not store on it easily the patched file. So it is available via a direct link and you have to download it with wget so that it is be stored on your nas :

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wget http://plugout.net/firm_version/fvdw-sl-18-2-setupjob-blkid-06aug2020.tgz -O /tmp/fvdw-sl-18-2-setupjob-blkid-06aug2020.tgz

tar -xf /tmp/fvdw-sl-18-2-setupjob-blkid-06aug2020.tgz -C /

Now you should have two format scripts

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ls -l  /usr/share/setup/set_fs*

(original and patched files)

Then if you run again the format script, all should be ok now with Vol-A and only blkid issue must be deepened...

[fvdw]

attached the strace binary.
Just put it in /usr/sbin and make ik executable (chmod 755 /usr/sbin/strace

To use it just put strace in front of the command
For example

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strace /usr/sbin/blkid

It will produce a lot of info, to capture it use a pipe to store in a file
For example

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strace /usr/sbin/blkid > /strace-blkid.txt

ps this part of output PARTLABEL="Linux filesystem" PARTUUID="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" when using blkid seems to be only listed when using GPT partition table.

[Jocko]

In addition with fvdw's post, to get easily the zip file on your nas...

Set your credentials (if it is not yet done) : go to the main setup menu and click on the tab "firmware interface".

So use this command to download the zip file

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plugout download 6469
unzip -d /usr/sbin /tmp/strace-4.10-7sept15.zip
chmod 755 /usr/sbin/strace

[jaker]

In addition with fvdw's post, to get easily the zip file on your nas...

Well that was ridiculously easy. Thank you.

Let's see if I can add it directly here.

Edit: silly idea about adding it here as text.
Here's attachment

strace.zip

[jaker]

Edit: silly idea about adding it here as text.
Message removed

Output needed total 4 messages with 60000 character limit. :D

[Jocko]

Thank you for your posting but the output seems not to be fully pasted (stopped when the command examines the node ram7)

I think you should post two outputs instead

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strace /usr/sbin/blkid /dev/sda5
strace /usr/sbin/blkid /dev/sda8

like this we will be able to compare the outputs

[jaker]

Here's both sda5 and sda8 outputs attached.

strace_SDA5_and_SDA8.zip

[fvdw]

For sda8 I do no see this line

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ioctl(4, BLKSSZGET, 512)                = 0

Could there be an issue with logical block size on sda8 :scratch

[Jocko]

So there is a significant difference between the output (begins after line 120+) where blkid reads information on sda node (think partition table information) and then additional information on sda5 before writing the output.
Where as with sda8 blkid does not do it :scratch

The exit seems to be different

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sda5:
exit_group(0)                           = ?
+++ exited with 0 +++
sda8:
exit_group(2)                           = ?
+++ exited with 2 +++

fvdw:
maybe code source gives more information

Otherwise, can you run the commands without strace like this

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/usr/sbin/blkid /dev/sda5
echo $?
/usr/sbin/blkid /dev/sda8
echo $?

About sda5 output it is the expected information : returns uuid of the fs and no partuuid