But now the Problem is that i have now Free Space on the My Cloud so i can’t upgrade the Firmware.
Also a Factory Reset changes nothing on the available Space.
Then i saw that i could set up a Raid/JBOD over the Webgui. The HDD Check says the Drive Status is good but when it try’s to create the JBOD it Fails with Error 600. After a restart the My Cloud starts flashing with red light.
The single bay myclouds have issues with the raid manager. Specifically, it only knows how to see SATA disks. There is only one sata disk in the system. There is no sane way (short of totally rebuilding the init script, and repackaging the initrd) to get the system to do raid-1 mirroring across partitions on the device-- not with the web manager anyway.
I have experimented with user-init based methods for creating arrays that span USB volumes-- The actual linux raid system present in the mycloud knows how to do it, but you have to fight against the volume automounter, and do some fun tricks to get it to let go.
The Problem was that when you follow the Guide there will be no Flags for the partitions.
After i set the right partition flags i could upgrade the firmare.
You can either: perform 40 secs reboot - power off, press reset and while powering on (still holding reset) count to 40ish seconds and let go of reset, should be blinking blue and it will start formatting drive.
If that fails, login to web, enable ssh, login to ssh:
sh -c MKE2FS_CONFIG=/etc/mke2fs.conf MKE2FS_SYNC=100 mke2fs -m 1 -t ext4 -E stride=64,stripe-width=128 /dev/sda2 3807238M ← this is while formatting 4TB gen2, for other size you will have to change the value!!!
