Lacie 5Big2 Failed After Firmware Update

[fvdw]

tip

you can open a second telnet client in fvdw-sl console and connect once more to the 5big2
Then give the command

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top

This will show you what it is doing and what keeps it busy

seems gzip takes most of the cpu time

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Mem: 507820K used, 4652K free, 0K shrd, 436284K buff, 7076K cached
CPU: 74.0% usr 23.4% sys  0.0% nic  0.0% idle  0.1% io  0.0% irq  2.3% sirq
Load average: 1.08 0.60 0.25 2/44 828
  PID  PPID USER     STAT   VSZ %VSZ CPU %CPU COMMAND
  819   721 root     R     1456  0.2   0 79.4 gzip
  818   721 root     S     2244  0.4   0 18.0 dd if /dev/sda8 bs 1M skip 950928
  258     2 root     RW       0  0.0   0  1.7 [kswapd0]
    1     0 root     S     1232  0.2   0  0.0 /bin/sh
  716     1 root     S     1232  0.2   0  0.0 /sbin/telnetd
  721   716 root     S     1228  0.2   0  0.0 -sh
  820   716 root     S     1228  0.2   0  0.0 -sh
  828   820 root     R     1224  0.2   0  0.0 top
 
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You can leave "top" by using CTRL+C

with using the command ls -al /mountpount/* you can see if the file still grows and how big it has become in the meantime
It seems to grow on my system with approximate 1 MB /minute as it is a compressed file I have no idea how far it is in the process of copying and compressing 60 MB

[unlucky1]

Thanks! I should have thought of that myself! Honestly, I'm just really afraid to mess with the drives too much and within this whole process because I really can't lose this data.

[unlucky1]

Strange. Mine says SWAP is taking all the CPU:

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Mem: 508920K used, 3552K free, 0K shrd, 0K buff, 500888K cached
CPU:  0.0% usr  100% sys  0.0% nic  0.0% idle  0.0% io  0.0% irq  0.0% sirq
Load average: 1.00 0.99 0.95 2/44 1013
  PID  PPID USER     STAT   VSZ %VSZ CPU %CPU COMMAND
  258     2 root     RW       0  0.0   0 99.4 [kswapd0]
 1013  1005 root     R     1224  0.2   0  0.2 top
    1     0 root     S     1232  0.2   0  0.0 /bin/sh
 1005   730 root     S     1232  0.2   0  0.0 -sh
  730     1 root     S     1228  0.2   0  0.0 /sbin/telnetd
  734     1 root     S      200  0.0   0  0.0 /sbin/buttons-nwsp2
 1004     1 root     Z        0  0.0   0  0.0 [gzip]
  818     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [usb-storage]
    3     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [ksoftirqd/0]
 1003     1 root     Z        0  0.0   0  0.0 [dd]
  251     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [kworker/0:1]
  472     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [kworker/u:3]
  465     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [scsi_eh_0]
  468     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [scsi_eh_1]
  204     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [sync_supers]
  223     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [khubd]
  642     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [kworker/u:4]
    6     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [khelper]
  212     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [ata_sff]
  207     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [kblockd]
  348     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [xfs_mru_cache]
  339     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [jfsIO]
  206     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [bdi-default]
  320     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [unionfs_siod]
  250     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [rpciod]
  349     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [xfslogd]
  340     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [jfsCommit]
  341     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [jfsSync]
  478     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [smflush]
  321     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [nfsiod]
  492     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [mtdblock0]
  230     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [md]
  562     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [kmpathd]
  563     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [kmpath_handlerd]
  617     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [mv_crypto]
  497     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [mtdblock1]
  351     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [xfsconvertd]
  352     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [crypto]
  817     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [scsi_eh_2]
  350     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [xfsdatad]
  306     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [fsnotify_mark]
    2     0 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [kthreadd]
  487     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [orion_spi]
    4     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [kworker/0:0]


[fvdw]

......... Honestly, I'm just really afraid to mess with the drives too much and within this whole process because I really can't lose this data.

I can imagine your feeling, walking around with a stone in your stomach. Hopefully we can repair it...we will see, there is still hope

[fvdw]

you can give command

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ps -ef | grep dd

to see if that command is still running.
I think you have filled up the RAM with a file, remember the kernel and linux file system is in ram. If the output is not written to the usb disk it is written in ram.
This will happen if the usb disk is not mounted on the mountpoint
The command

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mount

should list which partions are mounted and where they are mounted

[unlucky1]

In 5 minutes, the file size hasn't changed at all:

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root@(none):/ # ls -al /mountpoint/
total 494328
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 Jul  9 20:45 .
drwxr-xr-x   14 root     root             0 Jul  9 17:53 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     495304704 Jul  9 20:51 sda2_end.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      10884716 Jul  9 20:44 sda2_start.gz


[fvdw]

ps the standalone kernel has no swap space on a disk so it can't free memory by swapping.

Check if your usb disk is mounted correctly

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mount

if mount doesn't show that /dev/sef1 is mounted on /mountpoint then you have filled up the RAM...no problem but not the intention

PS you can abort the dd command by using CTRL+C in the telnet window were you started it

[unlucky1]

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root@(none):/ # ps -ef | grep dd
    2 root       0:00 [kthreadd]
 1003 root       0:04 [dd]
 1094 root       0:00 grep dd

root@(none):/ # mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600)


[unlucky1]

ctrl +c is not killing dd

[fvdw]

so it is not mounted

The files are written to RAM in the folder mountpoint

delete them

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cd /mountpoint
unlink sda2_end.gz
unlink sda2_start.gz

check that the folder is empty now

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ls -al

Go back to root folder

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cd /

Mount /dev/sef1

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mount /dev/sef1 /mountpoint

(check if it is mounted by giving the command mount without arguments, it should now be in the output that you get from the mount command)

if it is repeat the commands to copy the partition end and start