Expand storage doesnt seem to be working

[extremeaudio]

Fresh install of VB 2.4

Installed to a fresh 6TB disk. Followed all steps successfully till the point of expanding storage to fit the whole disk

Even after issuing

config_local_storage.sh

...On Vortexbox web UI I can still see

/storage

887G

72M

842G

1%

This corresponds to about 1 TB of storage while my disk is 6TB

Output of fdisk is as follows

[[email protected] ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 5.5 TiB, 6001175126016 bytes, 11721045168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 6E2BA1CC-BBA4-40FE-A702-C799B7CF7631

Device        Start         End     Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sda1      2048        4095        2048    1M BIOS boot
/dev/sda2      4096      618495      614400  300M Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3    618496      749567      131072   64M Linux swap
/dev/sda4    749568    63664127    62914560   30G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda5  63664128 11721045134 11657381007  5.4T Linux LVM


Disk /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_storage: 901.2 GiB, 967604961280 bytes, 1889853440 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Whats going wrong?


I also need to add another 6TB disk to the storage later. So, as per the instructions for adding a second disk in the wiki

The first step is to create an LVM on your new second drive. This command will create an LVM partition called /dev/sdb1. You may need to use a different device name if your second drive is not /dev/sdb
config_lvm_drive.sh /dev/sdb
Now you want to add /dev/sdb1 to the /storage LVM. This command will add it
config_add_lvm.sh /dev/sdb1

In the first line it sayd we want to create an LVM partition called /dev/sdb1

And the command following it says config_lvm_drive.sh /dev/sdb <- not sdb1

Is this correct? Or does this need to be sdb1?

Because the next line also says config_add_lvm.sh /dev/sdb1

Is this a typo or is this correct?

[tommyleinen]

Hi there, did you manage to find a resolution? I appear to have the same problem:

I have a fresh install of v2.4 and initially can only see 3.5GB on a 1TB drive (using Home)
Initially, I can map the storage location and see the files as they rip.
I have then attempted to expand the storage after install using

config_local_storage.sh
config_4-fill.sh

Going back to 'home' I can now see 913GB but now when I rip, the files are not appearing.

It's as if the ripit location is no longer pointing to the correct storage location.

I can see partitions:
/dev/sda1 BIOS bppt
/dev/sda2 300M Linux fileswap
/dev/sda3 64M Linux swap
/dev/sda4 3.6G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda5 927.6G Linux LVM

It's as if it is still ripping to sda4 and not sda5

My next thought is that we should uninstall and reisnstall ripit but not sure how to go about it.

[extremeaudio]

No I havent found the solution. Hoping someone on here can help us out!

[extremeaudio]

Hello, can anyone please help out with this?

[agillis]

Did you reboot after the install?

[extremeaudio]

Yes of course I rebooted. I even tried using gparted to see the partitions.

Of the 5 partitions, the first 3 are small. 4th one is 30GB and last is 5.7TB so it appears as though everything is fine. Any other way to verify?

[extremeaudio]

So I did a fresh install.

Step 1 - Installed VB 2.4 Below is what the partitions look like after the installation







Step 2. After issuing the command
config_4-30.sh Below is what the partitions showed in VB as well as in gparted




Step 3 And finally after issuing config_local_storage.sh











Needless to say, I have been rebooting between each of the steps.

Please advise what I can do.

[extremeaudio]

Bump for help!

[agillis]

can't see your images. Can you post text like you did in your first post?

[extremeaudio]

So I started off afresh

Step 1 - After installing to the 6TB hard disk from the USB installer, and without performing any resize steps, in gparted I could see the following:


Partition | Filesystem | Size | Used | Unused | Flags

sda1 | grub2core.img | 1MB | -- | --| bios grub

sda2 | ext4 | 300MB | 92.50MB | 207.50MB| --

sda3 | linux-swap | 64.00MB | 0MB | 64.00MB| --

sda4 | ext4 | 3.54GB | 1.22GB | 2.32GB| --

unallocated | unallocated | 5.45 TB


Step 2 - After issuing the command
config_4-30.sh Below is what the partitions showed in gparted

Partition | Filesystem | Size | Used | Unused | Flags

sda1 | grub2core.img | 1MB | -- | --| bios grub

sda2 | ext4 | 300MB | 92.50MB | 207.50MB| --

sda3 | linux-swap | 64.00MB | 0MB | 64.00MB| --

sda4 | ext4 | 30.00GB | 1.64GB | 28.36GB| --

unallocated | unallocated | 5.43 TB


and at this time, VB home showed

/storage - size 30G - used 1.2G - available 28G - use % 4%


Step 3 And finally after issuing config_local_storage.sh

Partition | Filesystem | Size | Used | Unused | Flags

sda1 | grub2core.img | 1MB | -- | --| bios grub

sda2 | ext4 | 300MB | 92.50MB | 207.50MB| --

sda3 | linux-swap | 64.00MB | 0MB | 64.00MB| --

sda4 | ext4 | 30.00GB | 1.64GB | 28.36GB| --

sda5 Linux LVM (lock sign next to it) | lvm2 pv Vol Group | 5.43 TB | 901.16 GB | 4.55 TB | lvm


and VB home showed

/storage - size 887G - used 72M - available 842G - use % 1%

[agillis]

Looks like it didn't make the LVM large enough. Never seen that before. Not sure how that could happen.

[extremeaudio]

Anything I could do to fix this? Can you suggest some course of action? Am stuck with 2 x 6TB HDDs

[extremeaudio]

Bumpity Bump!!

[extremeaudio]

Do you think I could try installing VB 2.3, try to expand storage and then upgrade to 2.4 or something?

[extremeaudio]

2.3 installs fine and expands to fill the full disk. How do I upgrade to 2.4 from here?