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Lost music folder (>1TB…) HRRRRRR!

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2:34 pm
July 28, 2010

Sernyl

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Post edited 2:39 pm – July 28, 2010 by Sernyl

Running Vortex box appliance 2 TO.

Vortex Box V. 1.4.

Squeezebox server 7.5.1.

Since 2 days, the whole music (and files/flac) has disappeared.

The VB is however accessible, e.g. with MC : nothing in /storage

The SB server is working, athough no file can be played ; same thing in Foobar.

Looking at the VB files on the network (from an XP PC) : nothing, nada, niente, rien, que dalle !!!

Looking at the VB "system information" page : the music partition has disappeared

If it can help, Foobar has had recently some problems to read its playlist : mebbe a common cause ?

Has there been a glitch in the VB software upgrade I did a few days ago ?

"To nobody, except those who will take pleasure here" (Franz Schubert, 1797-1828)

3:22 pm
July 28, 2010

Andrew

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There is no bug I know of that could cause this problem. There is not normaly a partition called "music" under system information. Music is stored on the storage partition.

Is it possible you acidentially deleted the folder? Can you go to command line and see if /storage/music/flac has any files in it? The command

ls /storage/music/flac

will check this.

7:57 pm
July 28, 2010

wizardofoz

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Andrew, he said MC showed nothing in /storage (MC is a text based file manager – Midnite/Midnight Commander) yum install mc Laugh

12:34 am
July 29, 2010

Sernyl

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I hope that this problem is only a mounting one, as the other partitions seem OK.

What is the command to mount the unseen partition ?

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9:30 am
July 29, 2010

Andrew

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The only partitions are / and /storage. If you see both of thouse. All your partitions are mounted.

12:32 pm
July 29, 2010

Sernyl

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Andrew said:The only partitions are / and /storage. If you see both of thouse. All your partitions are mounted.

This is what I read on the sys. info page :

/ ext3 /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00

/boot ext3 /dev/sda1

/dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs

This is where I was used to see the /storage partition : it has disappeared.

As previously written, when I look at the VB with Midnight Commander, the /storage directory hosts only a shortcut (…to himself).

How can I try to mount it manually.

…and why dit it happen ?

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3:04 pm
July 29, 2010

Andrew

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I have never seen a partition become unmounted. Do you do anything non-standard such as mount partitions from another system?

Usuallythe mount command

mount /storage

will mount a partition that is not already mounted.

6:58 am
July 30, 2010

Sernyl

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Post edited 11:51 am – July 30, 2010 by Sernyl

The answer to Mount /storage is :

"mount can't read superblock"

Is it a filesystem recognition problem ? (an idea found on the web)

The partition is (was?) around 1.8 TB and formatted in an unusual (for me) format.

…

Another message : "couldn't initialize XFS library"

How to reinstall it, and where ?

"To nobody, except those who will take pleasure here" (Franz Schubert, 1797-1828)

9:40 am
July 31, 2010

Sernyl

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Sernyl said:

The answer to Mount /storage is :

"mount can't read superblock"

Is it a filesystem recognition problem ? (an idea found on the web)

The partition is (was?) around 1.8 TB and formatted in an unusual (for me) format.

…

Another message : "couldn't initialize XFS library"

How to reinstall it, and where ?

Not much help from here…. so I reinstalled the whole appliance with the V1.4 iso.

There is a very short message at the boot about a "vortexbox repair" but I have been too slow to read it fully and then press the right key (that should be somewhere in the manual).

After a flawless install, I am now restoring the >tera via the network. I guess it will last till tomorrow …afterwards I'll configure the SB server again.

I still have no explanation to what happened.

"To nobody, except those who will take pleasure here" (Franz Schubert, 1797-1828)

5:59 pm
August 2, 2010

Andrew

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Good to hear you have it working. Without more detail such as logs of the error it's impossible for us to know what the problem was.

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