I’ve been using Zimaos on my homelab server for the last 6 months without any problems. Recently I’ve needed to expand my storage. I have a raid 5 set up with three 12tb HDD’s. I wanted to add 1 more 12tb drive to the raid. After updating to the newest version v1.41 It recognized the new drive I had plugged in and I started to expand the raid. It gave me the percentage and estimated time. After about 40 hours I watch it hit 100%. Then It stayed there for a while and I went to get dinner. When I came back it still said expanding raid but now showed 0% (0mins left). However it shows the new expanded capacity as being available. At least when viewing from the settings dashboard. However when going into my files it still shows the old capacity of 24tb and not the new 36tb.
I’m not sure what to do at this point, because its not like I can try to expand the raid again, because its acting like its still expanding, but isn’t making any progress. Everything is still working proprely its just like I never added that drive. I’ve restarted the system once and it had no effect on anything. Has anybody run into this problem before? What should I do next?
General System Information
HPz620
Dual CPU 24 cores 48 threads,
64 gb ram,
1 250gb 2.5" ssd(ZimaOS-HD)
3 12tb drives plugged into hdd slots
1 newly added 12tb drive into 5.25 bay
It may be because there is a problem with the display of files, and I see that the 36T displayed in the storage interface is the result of successful expansion
One more question, is it right to check the storage size of the files again after restarting the system?
I thought it might just be a problem with the display of the files at first which is why I restarted it, but the only place it shows that 36TB is in the storage settings. If it does actually have the full 36TB capacity and just isn’t showing it I still have a problem because I plan on adding at least 1 or 2 more drives to that array, and can’t because it still says its expanding and I don’t get the button to expand again.
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Hi, I had a issue when expanding my Main-storage, it wouldn’t allow me to write to the files in the tab open, The file tab open when expanding the storage doesn’t get reset when complete. I did a restart to clear the conflict between the main-storage and file tab.
I hope this helps, close the files before expanding your storage.
This may have been what caused this issue. (file explorer tab open while expanding raid)
I ended up having to create a backup of my server then I format and broke the raid, and then rebuilt it anew. When I did this, to test I left two hard drives off the new raid and expanded the raid successfully twice. Both times I shut down all of the apps(containers) and didn’t open the file explorer or leave the storage settings screen. That will now be my process anytime I expand the raid using Zima.
