Problem

[amrmagdyy]

Hi There,

I'm Using a Cloudbox white casing, and I have followed all the steps till i reached a stuck point with the backing up so I manually backed up as i found in this thread , sda1,2,3,4,5,6 and i deleted 8 and remounted it, then restarted ... Since then I cannot get to access the lacie again using the telnet. so I gave it a try to start the whole process way from the top and I did so and from thtpd32 log shows that it uses 192.168.1.252 for the connection, which the telnet uses by default, and I tried forcing the telnet to connect and it was not successful, Your help is much appreciated :)

Regards.

[amrmagdyy]

UPDATE!!

I have seemed to get to the telnet and access the lacie, when ever i try /fvdw-sl-installer MY_IP it keeps on going it tries to format sda5 then gives an error " There was an error formatting /dev/sda5 Installation will exit Installaion incomplete, disk will not boot"

[fvdw]

please print the post the partiton table you use. You can get it after the installer has failed by using the command gdisk -l /dev/sda if you used gpt, or fdisk -l /dev/sda when you have chosen ms-dos partition table type. From this info we can look if sda5 was set up properly

[amrmagdyy]

I have managed to install the FVDW and im on the control panel... Im facing some problem as I'm a dumie in such stuff.. the system shows that my total storage is 16MB ... and i cant grant access using FTP, let me know if i can PM you FVDW so i can share my screen with you.

Regards and Much appreciate your work
Amr

[fvdw]

if you storage is only 18MB then /dev/sda8 is not probably not mounted

You could connect via ssh server to see what's wrong
You can use a ssh client like Putty that runs under windows (the default user name for ssh server is: root and password: giveit2me)

When you have the linux command prompt give the command

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df -h

and

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mount

post the output of the commands here

Ps only after 10 post you can sent pm's. This is done to prevent that people use pm for solving problems to easily. We want them to post on the forum so other users with same problem can learn from it.

[amrmagdyy]

you can find that i attached a screen shot of the output ...

Thanks :)

[fvdw]

well sda8 is mounted, only the size is only 16MB so the partition table must be wrong

als size of sda5 is not correct it is 1.8 TB !

post the output of gdisk -l /dev/sda (if you used gpt partiton table) or fdisk -l /dev/sda (if you used ms-dos table)

[amrmagdyy]

this is the output :)

sorry for causing so much trouble :)

[fvdw]

well the problem is found the partition table is not correct it contains still parts from the original lacie firmware

The output should be more like this (not that this is for a 3TB disk in your case sda8 will be more close to 1.8 TB instead of 2.7 TB

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Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 5860533168 sectors, 2.7 TiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): BCCC1E49-2DBF-4FCF-9FE5-24DCA0013C87
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 5860533134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 4062 sectors (2.0 MiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            4096         1052671   512.0 MiB   8300  Linux filesystem
   2         1052672         2101247   512.0 MiB   8300  Linux filesystem
   3         2101248         3149823   512.0 MiB   8200  Linux swap
   4         3149824         3166207   8.0 MiB     8300  Linux filesystem
   5         3166208         4739071   768.0 MiB   8300  Linux filesystem
   6         4739072         4755455   8.0 MiB     8300  Linux filesystem
   7         4755456         5804031   512.0 MiB   8300  Linux filesystem
   8         5804032      5860533134   2.7 TiB     8300  Linux filesystem
root@fvdwsl-5big2:/share/1000/fvdw/nzbget-12.0 #

The only way to correct this is to repeat the process.
Load the standalone kernel
delete all partitions manually so that there no partitions on the disk and then run the fvdw-sl installer
To delete partitons when running the standalone kernel use the command

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gdisk /dev/sda

then when gdisk is running you can use the command "d" (without the quotes) to delete partitions , it will ask the partition number to delete.
repeat the command until all partitions are gone. You can check which partitions are still present by using the "p" command in gdisk
When al are gone use the "w" command to write the empty partition table to disk and exit gdisk. If you don't use the "w" command the changes are not made.

After that upload the the fvdw-sl installer and follow the instruction, do not choose the option to make backups.

[amrmagdyy]

This is wat i get