Using SoftRAID from the command line - SoftRAID Forum

Free bytes incorrect?

bry2k — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 07:49:41 +0000

When I do either of these:

softraidtool volume all info
softraidtool volume disk11 info

The result is:

Mountpoint: /Volumes/VolumeName

BSD disk: disk11

Total Bytes: 18.2 TB (20,000,000,000,000)

Free Bytes: 18.2 TB (20,000,000,000,000)

Volume format: HFS+

Volume is SoftRAID

RAID level: RAID 5

SoftRAID ID: 07E45775E2F1C62A

Optimized for: Digital Video

Created: Jan 8, 2019 at 1:26:56 PM

Last Validated: never

Volume state: normal,

Volume Safeguard: enabled

Total I/Os: 2,827,461,105

Total I/O Errors: 0

Disks used for this volume:

bsd disk: SoftRAID ID: Location and Size:

disk3 07E4541468999180 (SATA bus 0, id 0, lun 0 - 7.28 TB) data disk,

disk5 07E4541462A16EC0 (SATA bus 0, id 0, lun 0 - 7.28 TB) data disk,

disk6 07E454146903D8C0 (SATA bus 0, id 0, lun 0 - 7.28 TB) data disk,

disk7 07E45414740A8600 (SATA bus 0, id 0, lun 0 - 7.28 TB) data disk,

disk8 08CCF68F0F9A2A00 (SATA bus 0, id 0, lun 0 - 7.28 TB) data disk,

disk9 07E4541478B9B2C0 (SATA bus 0, id 0, lun 0 - 7.28 TB) data disk,

Same result for all of my SoftRAID volumes.

Why does "Free Bytes" match "Total Bytes" when there is a substantial amount of data on the volume?

folder size

gillekes — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 12:14:16 +0000

Is there a way to get the size of a folder in a raid?

The du function doesn't seem to work for the raid disc in terminal.

Softraid Lite v 5.8.4

Help mounting HFS+ RAID5 volume on Mac Pro 2013 running BigSur 11.2.2 w/ SoftRAID 6.0.1b53

ekleinbussink — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 16:34:13 +0000

Hello!

I really need to get my RAID5 volume online after 5 months.. My emergency plan is to hook it up to an old Catalina macbook pro that also has thunderbolt-2 port - but is there anyway to do this on the commandline? I always used the UI before, but the volume attempts to mount and then fails gracefully without useful message..

It appears the commandline is the same where it seems to attempt the mount, returns "0" status (echo $?), but fails to mount. Can anyone provide guidance on ways to mount, using softraidtool or regular OSX commandds. I have been working with UNIX / Linux for many years, so I am comfortable in terminal environments but have rarely had the need to work on OSX directly, so not sure how to debug this...

MacFlowerPot-2:sbin ekleinbussink$ df
Filesystem 512-blocks Used Available Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk1s5s1 976695384 37847072 61211952 39% 568975 4882907945 0% /
devfs 751 751 0 100% 1302 0 100% /dev
/dev/disk1s4 976695384 4196424 61211952 7% 2 4883476918 0% /System/Volumes/VM
/dev/disk1s2 976695384 835560 61211952 2% 1570 4883475350 0% /System/Volumes/Preboot
/dev/disk1s6 976695384 221024 61211952 1% 355 4883476565 0% /System/Volumes/Update
/dev/disk1s1 976695384 870868552 61211952 94% 1482566 4881994354 0% /System/Volumes/Data
map auto_home 0 0 0 100% 0 0 100% /System/Volumes/Data/home
/dev/disk7s1 2930270200 2219735184 710535016 76% 626744 355274108 0% /Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive
/dev/disk8s2 15627381344 13011919248 2615462096 84% 7143778 4287823501 0% /Volumes/TimeMachine-USB8Gb
/dev/disk9s2 15627381344 10036958752 5590422592 65% 535917 4294431362 0% /Volumes/SeagateUSB_8TB
/dev/disk6s2 15627381344 14536774640 1090606704 94% 3102117 4291865162 0% /Volumes/Seagate Backup Plus Drive2
/dev/disk1s5 976695384 37847072 61211952 39% 568977 4882907943 0% /System/Volumes/Update/mnt1
MacFlowerPot-2:sbin ekleinbussink$ softraidtool volume FlowerPotRAID5n info

Info for "FlowerPotRAID5n":

Mountpoint:
BSD disk:
Total Bytes: 8.19 TB (9,000,717,975,552)
Volume format: HFS+
Volume is SoftRAID
RAID level: RAID 5
SoftRAID ID: 07B1986F1CCA0D6A
Optimized for: Workstation
Created: Jul 27, 2018 at 9:43:52 AM
Last Validated: never
Volume state: normal,
Volume Safeguard: disabled
Total I/Os: 0
Total I/O Errors: 0

Disks used for this volume:
bsd disk: SoftRAID ID: Location and Size:
disk2 08892652C6B5A080 (SATA bus 0, id 0, lun 0 - 2.73 TB) data disk,
disk3 0811A5397E089C00 (SATA bus 0, id 0, lun 0 - 2.73 TB) data disk,
disk4 067DD2052C0F5F40 (SATA bus 0, id 0, lun 0 - 2.73 TB) data disk,
disk5 067DD2052A703240 (SATA bus 0, id 0, lun 0 - 2.73 TB) data disk,

MacFlowerPot-2:sbin ekleinbussink$ softraidtool volume FlowerPotRAID5n mount
Mounting the volume FlowerPotRAID5n.
Waiting for command to complete:
MacFlowerPot-2:sbin ekleinbussink$

NSRangeException on most commands

sco — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 02:57:29 +0000

Hi, I'm trying to use softraidtool and can't seem to use it for any commands that relate to a disk or volume. "help", "showlog 10" work fine. Here's an example: $ sudo softraidtool disk all info 2018-09-05 12:44:01.572 softraidtool *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSRangeException', reason: '-: Range {0, 22} out of bounds; string length 7' *** First throw call stack: ( 0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff2897f32b __exceptionPreprocess + 171 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff4faedc76 objc_exception_throw + 48 2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff28a10dcd + + 205 3 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff28889904 - + 740 4 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff28893ffd CFStringCompareWithOptionsAndLocale + 4717 5 softraidtool 0x000000010004114a GetEnclosureType + 312 6 softraidtool 0x000000010001e195 start + 118693 7 softraidtool 0x000000010001dc33 start + 117315 8 softraidtool 0x000000010002aa2a start + 170042 9 softraidtool 0x00000001000033f0 start + 8704 10 softraidtool 0x0000000100002e49 start + 7257 11 softraidtool 0x00000001000012cf start + 223 12 softraidtool 0x0000000100001224 start + 52 ) libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException Abort trap: 6 I can't even generate a support report: $ sudo softraidtool generatereport ~/Desktop/test 2018-09-05 12:54:35.272 softraidtool *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSRangeException', reason: '-: Range {0, 22} out of bounds; string length 7' *** First throw call stack: ( 0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff2897f32b __exceptionPreprocess + 171 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff4faedc76 objc_exception_throw + 48 2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff28a10dcd + + 205 3 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff28889904 - + 740 4 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff28893ffd CFStringCompareWithOptionsAndLocale + 4717 5 softraidtool 0x000000010004114a GetEnclosureType + 312 6 softraidtool 0x000000010001e195 start + 118693 7 softraidtool 0x000000010001dc33 start + 117315 8 softraidtool 0x000000010002aa2a start + 170042 9 softraidtool 0x00000001000033f0 start + 8704 10 softraidtool 0x0000000100002e49 start + 7257 11 softraidtool 0x00000001000012cf start + 223 12 softraidtool 0x0000000100001224 start + 52 13 ??? 0x0000000000000003 0x0 + 3 ) libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException Abort trap: 6 I've tried uninstalling, rebooting, reinstalling SoftRaid 5.6.7 to no avail. I'm currently using a demo version. Previously was using the XT version but I'm looking into using SoftRaid with disks other than those in a ThunderBay (and will upgrade if all good). I'm looking into some automatic scheduled backup via attaching and detaching mirrors, hence the need for the command line interface to work. I'm on High Sierra 10.13.5. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks sco

Temporay degraded error/2 missing disks error message

Wildenstein — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 19:38:25 +0000

Hi, I have been using Softraid Lite in RAID 1 and I mistakenly downloaded and opened/ran what I thought was an update Softraid Lite, but was actually the full version of Softraid. I deleted the Softraid and reverted back to using Softraid Lite. When I now open Lite from the icon in the toolbar it momentarily gives me the error warning with an exclamation mark and says in red: 'degraded . 2 missing secondary disks' and then shows the normal setup for the Raid 1 setup. It only started happening after I mistakenly opened and tried to run the full version of Softraid. What should i do? Or is it not a problem? Thanks in advance, Michael

Resize example

Coool — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 18:42:33 +0000

Can you post resize command line for SoftRAID non-RAID volume?

Command Line Documentation

imgoinmad — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 04:12:47 +0000

Is there documentation available on using SoftRaid from the command line?