psychodad1000

Probably putty connection. Any process you expect to take a long time should be done in a screen session so you can disconnect and resume as needed. Screen can be installed from NerdTools plugin. Google Linux Screen Command. Noob still at it. Bear with me.... Forgot about screen. Used screen to get the files copied to /t on destination. Ran rsync, results were good. 10 - Now is the good time to move the files in the "t" directory to the root on [dest]. I do this with cut and paste from Windows explorer. All I see in explorer are user shares. How do I see the disk contents so I can move /t to the root. I was going to try Midnight Commander but chickened out.

Sorry, I guess I'm going to be the problem child.... Popped in a new 4TB drive and formatted XFS. Everything looked good. Created t folder on new drive. Started Putty, executed command: cp -rpv /mnt/disk1/* /mnt/disk7/t. System started copying 2TB from disk1 to disk7, files names flying by at the speed of light (almost). Came back some hrs later and find this msg: "Network Error:software caused connection abort" . Only 1.2 of the 2TB was copied. I left it overnite to see if it was just the putty connection to my computer that failed and hopefully the copy process was still running. No joy. The copy did stop at 1.2TB. All drives are still green balled. I visually checked and many files were copied to the t folder of the new drive. Ran rsync and got a long list of files which didn't copy. Anyone else have the copy command bomb midway thru the process? What should I do now? Reformat the drive and try again?

Rebuilding an empty filesystem (freshly formatted drive) is no quicker than a full drive. Every bit of the entire disk will be rebuilt regardless. Parity knows nothing of filesytems. In order to change filesystems, you are going to have to copy from an old filesystem disk to a new filesystem disk anyway you do it, so if you have enough slots, I think it would be easier to just preclear the new disks, add them to new slots and format them to the new filesystem, copy from the old filesystem disks to the new filesystem disks, then New Config without the old disks and rebuild parity. Thanks for the reply. I thought it was too good to be true. I guess there really is "no free lunch".

Don't think I saw this scenario: Disk 1 - 2TB (1TB free) Disk 2 - 2TB (1TB free) I want to move the files from Disk 1 to Disk 2 to create an empty drive. Format Disk 1 to XFS. Replace Disk 1 with a new 4TB drive and rebuild. The result will be a larger drive formatted XFS. Correct? I assume the rebuild would go quickly since the drive is empty? My actual scenario involves (5) 2TB drives and a 3TB drive but still results in replacing an emptied 2TB with a 4TB. I know it would be easier to just add the 4TB drive but I would like to start replacing the smaller 2TB drives with 4TB drives. Is there an easier way?