Format: Unsupported. Add new disk to ZimaOS

Insight & Feedback
1

I’ve added an SSD to my server, just a single disk for a few files, and tried to “manage” it through ZimaOS but no matter what I do ZimaOS “freezes” when I try to manage it ie. make a new storage place out of it. So far I’ve tried deleting everything on the disk even the partition table so that it’s a “clean” disk, formatting it in ext4, btrfs, exfat and other fimesystems (not xfs as that seems to, for the time being, be unsupported by ZimaOS). I’ve tried with fdisk in the terminal of ZimaOS and also using a viod install on my laptop by way of a USB HDD enclosure. ZimaOS still flags the disk as “Unsupported” no matter what I’ve done so… is there a work around or am I SOL?
Any and all input is welcome

Antonio

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maybe we should start from the top and manually install it through the terminal.

whai it is logical name? (ie /dev/sdb)

sudo lshw -C disk

Then we erase the drive:

wipefs -a /dev/sdb

Then we create a new partition table and one partition of 100%, format it:

sudo parted /dev/sdb
mklabel gpt
unit TB
mkpart
   Partition Name: primary
   File system type: ext4
   Start: 0%
   End: 100%
quit (saves and exit parted)

mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1

Then reboot the zima box and it should show up in Settings→Storage and pressing the + button to “zima Storage”

3

Apparently I missed the last command

mkfs -t ext /dev/sdX

Don’t know how I missed it but here we are.

Thanks for the solution.
Kind regards.
Antonio