Yeah that seems to be the case. I'll mount it, pull what I need, format it, and then add it to the array
When my original drive failed I bought this 2tb drive. From all that I read it seemed as though I needed to preclear the new drive before I did anything with it. Originally it was NTFS but after the preclear UD said it was xfs (and still does).
Ahh well I'm an idiot, so what do I do now? Do I start a new config without the new drive, mount it, and move everything from it using Midnight Commander to an external, format it, then put everything back on?
God dang it man I'm sorry to keep bugging you, but I did it and now this is what it shows me. I precleared the 2tb drive and it said the filesystem was xfs before I added it to the array
Since I do not have a parity drive and there's no rebuild process, how do I get past this? It won't let me start the array with the new one nor assigning no device to that slot
Sorry I will try to clarify. I did not have a parity drive when all of this happened. My 1.5tb external drive failed so I bought a 2tb internal drive to replace it. I used ddrescue to transfer whatever I could from the 1.5tb to the 2tb drives. Now in my array I need to add the 2tb drive, but Unraid will clear it of any data before adding I'm assuming. Since there's no parity drive, there's nothing to rebuild. So I'm moving whatever data that was recovered to yet another external drive, separate from the failed one, so that I can add the 2tb into the array and then transfer the data back on to it. After that I will be adding the 12tb drive I bought for parity. Overall its a very convoluted problem that I could have avoided with having a parity drive. After all of this there will be no more usb drives in the array
Ahh I did not know that, I'm very new to Unraid. I'm trying it now, I'm going to move the stuff to an external drive, add the new 2tb drive to the array, and then transfer everything back to the new 2tb drive
That was my idea as well, but I don't have any dockers with the failed drive assigned in the array. I'll have to try installing a new Krusader docker and see if I can do it that way
No I would definitely not like for it to be cleared since it was the destination for my ddrescue operation. How am I supposed to get the data from it then?
Hey I just had a followup question. So I bought a 2tb internal drive to copy the data from the failed 1.5tb external drive and i ran ddrescue. Seemingly it went well. I want to unassign the 1.5tb drive and add the 2tb one in it's place, will Unraid clear it before making it usable? Or will it just add it so i can see if the copied data was successful?