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[Zaxxman]

Hi Guys n Gals,
I have been using the PLi nightly build images on my DM8000 for the last year or so and they are truely first class so many thanks for your work. I updated my unit about 4 nights ago and noticed the media player dissappear from the main menu but not big issues as the PVR button works just as well if not better. My real problem came when I went to do a recording as I got the message cannot access HDD as it might not be initialsed. I can play back and delete any of the media content that is on it I just cant record as I used to. I have done a clean reflash of the box but the problem is still the same. I have got around it by using my PC mounted drive as a HDD replacement recording path which works fine but I would like to go back to using the internal drive without having to re-initialise it and lose all of my data. Any ideas would be welcomed.

[MiLo]

Run a disk check, because if I understand correctly, your internal disk is being mounted read-only. This happens when the system decides the filesystem corruption is too much to just ignore. You can run the disk check from the menu (and watch TV while it's running).

Edited by MiLo, 3 February 2012 - 08:34.

[Zaxxman]

Thanks for that I will set it going now and let you know later.

[Zaxxman]

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Here is a photo of the on screen error I get when doing a filesystem check

[MiLo]

Several options:
- Copy the contents to another disk, format it in the box, and you won't have this "out of memory" problem again.
- Run from telnet commandline instead (this helps if you have an "old" formatted disk, which is probably >1TB)
- Take the disk to a PC, and run the check there. Use a knoppix or similar boot-to-linux DVD if you don't have Linux.

[Zaxxman]

Hi Milo,
Thanks for the help, could you let me know the command to run from the telnet command line and I will try that way first. The drive is a 2tb drive and was formatted originally formatted in the box. If that fails I will copy it all out to my PC (about 1TB of data) and format and put it all back in.

[MiLo]

telnet commands (assuming your disk is /dev/sda1, which is very likely):

[qode]umount /dev/sda1
fsck -p /dev/sda1
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Read what it tells you (or copy&paste the output here, if you're unsure), and a reboot should be enough to get your disk back.
(Note: If fsck warns you, take it seriously, and don't just say continue when it warns you that it will damage the file system...)

[Zaxxman]

root@dm8000:~# [qode]umount /dev/sda1
-sh: [qode]umount: not found
Thats my first error message.

[Pedro_Newbie]

The correct commands are:

umount /dev/sda1
fsck -p /dev/sda1