Remove Drive Question

[thesensfan]

I recently tried to remove a drive from the pool.  When prompted I did not select Force Drive Removal and did not select Duplicate Files later.  The drive still shows in the pool but now when I move the mouse over drive in the pool almost all the space have been allocated as "Other". 

 

The drive was a 700GB and most of it was duplicated prior to me trying to remove the drive.  When I look at the Pooled pie chart very few of the files are marked duplicated, which worries me.

 

When I selected the option to remove the drive the process itself happened fairly quick and I am wondering if the removal process even worked as expected. 

 

The Pool Organization I snow yellow and the bar is near 20% mark.  With a note stating File Distribution Not Optimal.  I tried to force rebalance and the yellow bar started to move Balancing... but when completed it did not change anything.

• Should the disk automatically be moved to Non-Pooled when the DrivePool is finished the process?
• Do I need to reboot?
• Why do I get Unable to Enumerate Folder Access Denied when trying to look at the Folder Duplication?

[Christopher (Drashna)]

Well, as for the "other", it looks like it needs to be remeasured, but .....

 

 

If the disk is still in the pool, then it sounds like it may have failed to properly remove the drive. This happens occasionally, unfortunately.

Could you grab the logs from the system?

http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_2.x_Log_Collection

Namely, steps #5-7. And let me know when they've been uploaded.

 

After doing that, restart the server (or at least the "StableBit DrivePool Service"), and see if it will let you remove the disk.

[thesensfan]

Ok sounds good, I was a bit impatient and rebooted before grabbing the logs.  It looks like DrivePool is now rebalancing.  Once completed I will attempt to remove the drive again. 

 

Would you like me to grab the logs prior to disk removal?

 

MT

[Christopher (Drashna)]

Only if you have issues again.

 

Though, one "trick" I recommend is to use the "File Placement Limiter" balancer to clear out the disk prior to removing it. That way, you can keep on using the system (we set the pool to "read only" when removing a disk), and have the disk cleared out, ready for quick removal.