Hi all,
This has been driving me a little crazy over the last 24 hours. Any help is much appreciated.
I have setup a Proxmox hypervisor and Ubuntu Server VM to run my plex server. I purchased a Terramaster DAS and loaded an 8TB Iron Wolf. I wanted to test the drive on my pc before I plugged it into my laptop running the Proxmox and VM.
I began running chkdsk /r, and discovered it would take 10 hours to complete. I just wanted a quick check, and now realized my mistake. I tried to find the best way to interrupt this process, but found varying answers online. In the end the process had climbed to about 1% completed by the time I closed command prompt. I hoped everything was fine, then plugged it into my Proxmox laptop and formatted to XFS.
Then I see 52GB used on the 8TB Drive. I got worried that it was because something went wrong with me interrupting the chkdsk command and began investigating. Eventually I reformatted back to NTFS and ran a full chkdsk /r on the drive. 10 hours later and everything came back clear. I reformatted to XFS, and the same 52GB is showing as used.
I tried formatting to ext4, and discovered that it only shows as 28K used. So I went to just use ext4 (even though I have heard XFS is much better for plex media), and then my Proxmox hypervisor decided to start constantly writing error logs to the hard drive. I have no idea why, and troubleshooting that issue is a whole other can of worms I really don't want to dive down. Because again, XFS is the format I want, especially for expansion in the future of my 4 bay DAS.
So! I am hoping one of you wonderful fellow nerds can tell me if it's my fault that the drive is showing 52GB as used, or if there is some reason that it might be reserved or inaccessible for some reason.
Ultimately I am fine with the 52gb being used, but I am trying to learn and understand. Did I screw up here?