I’ve been plotting and farming from an empty WD My Book 12TB external drive to explore chia before investing in any new hardware. Have the drive hooked up by USB to a proxmox server and am plotting/farming from an Ubuntu VM on it.
Last week I had a failed plot or two and have these phantom files I cannot remove from my plotting temp directory
Any suggestions on what these are and/or how to fix (remove) them? I have my finished plots in another directory on this same drive. Should I back them up/move them off the drive?
If it’s extN then generally just fsck or for XFS, xfs_repair.
For sure check the cabling is solid.
My advice is if it’s < 5% of plots failing probably just leave it.
Or if it’s bothersome or more - consider putting that disk online via eSAS and a small sled, or stick it in the box if you have space. Actually, some of those external disks are actually 2x inside but not sure about that model…
Thanks for the advice. It was actually an ntfs partition, so I ended up not able to repair it properly from Ubuntu. I ultimately copied the plots to another drive, wiped the original and repartitioned it as ext4.
