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  1. johnieutah
    Good explanation, thanks. So rebuild is plodding along at only ~30MB/s! Just read around and apparently the HP Gen. 8 that I have has a write cache disabled by default in the bios. Will fix that after everything is completed.
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    Got it. So the contents can be see but not necessarily read (e.g. music can't be played)?
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    So I guess the question is more, how can the drive contents be shown if the rebuild is no where near finished?
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    Thanks for the replies. The array upgrade process seems to be going (touch wood) smoothly after everything from the preclear went fine. One final question: during a rebuild of a data disk, it looks like the contents of the drive are already there, even though it's less than 10% through reconstructing from parity. Shouldn't Unraid deny access to any shares where the data is on a drive which is currently on-going a data rebuild? Thanks!
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    Ok thanks. I must have misunderstood as I thought that the preclear process also added some sort of "signature" to the drive, Unraid then recognises this... Parity drives don't have this signature I thought... Anyways, like I said I must have misunderstood the way Unraid works. Basically I just need to swap out the 750GB drive with the 3TB red and let Unraid do its thing.
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    When you say clear it using the GUI, you mean the standard Unraid process for a swapping out a data drive. So basically there are no short cuts I can take here. I simply upgrade the drive as one normally would and let Unraid rebuild from Parity? Thanks guys.
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    Question. I want to add my previous parity drive into the array as a data drive. Do I need to preclear it, and if so, is there a way to speed this up as I already know the drive is solid as it's worked flawlessly for 3 years. Also, is it possible to change multiple data drives at once and then do one re-build from parity, or can I only change 1 drive, re-build from parity, change another drive, re-build from parity...? Thanks.
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    Have been using this plugin the last few days and it's been working great for me. Everything seems to have "passed", but what do I need to look for specifically in the pre-clear results?
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    I'm not 100% sure this is the right thread, but here goes... I have a couple of Western Digital 5TB Element drives arriving this week. I want to preclear them in their enclosures using UD, crack open the cases once completed and then add/update the Unraid array. I haven't precleared a drive for years and the last time was over the command line. Is there anything I need to be wary of with preclearing through UD? If I install the preclear plugin am I good to go or is there some "tuning" required? Many thanks guys.
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    Great, thanks.
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    Are you aware of an official change log? Thanks.
  12. johnieutah
    All updated with no probs. Good reason to update: LMS web UI now works in Edge post Creators Update once again :-) Cheers.
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    Seems to be working fine. One thing, I am wondering if the music source config path needs to be read/write. I would imagine by default read should be sufficient right? Hopefully this update will fix my problem of the current playlists never seeming to be correct whenever I restart my server, it always seems to have forgotten what I was listening to last session. Thanks again.
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    Thanks. Will try this out tonight and provide feedback.
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    Hi @dlandon what do these 2 lines mean exactly? Previously the playlist folder was a variable (along with the music source) that could be set... Just need to know as I do not want to loose my playlists. Also, by upgrade is performed on every startup, does this mean that each time docker is started, this docker will attempt to pull the latest LMS nightly build or stable release or something?? Thanks.
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    This is great, I noticed the other day LMS went to 7.9.0 and was looking at a way of updating my current LMS docker. Is there a migration process from the Gfjardim's LMS docker container? Thanks once again
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    Thanks for all that! Very helpful. So basically this is too much for my requirements for the time-being.
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    I started playing around with this last night, but had trouble finding out exactly how to use this plugin to simply back-up only the USB boot drive . It keeps asking for a source to be defined. If I may offer some critique, the UI for this plugin is a bit of dogs dinner I'm not sure what is possible and what is not, for example the above - is it even possible? Is it not possible to separate input fields and labels up a little or have a simple/expert mode? Or better, a step-through... (I'm waiting for the hate from the power users )
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    Been running this for quite a while now and everything has been great, but is there a way to update the version of LMS easily? I've noticed that 7.9.0 final appears to have been released: http://downloads.slimdevices.com/LogitechMediaServer_v7.9.0/ Thanks!
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    Is this the correct place to post about issues with the shutdown buttons? I'm getting a 404 since the 6.3.1 update, but the shutdown does appear to work...
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    Just updated and everything went fine. Only issue - and I'm sure I've read about it somewhere but can't find it anymore - is that the system shutdown buttons now give me a 404... I'm guessing dynamix system buttons needs an update?!?
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    ok, thanks for the clarification. I ended up reformatting as XFS as I won't be using a cache pool. I'm in the process of moving everything across... docker, app data etc... It's exciting!
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    Sounds like the setup I need. Well I finally got all the cables required and have installed the SSD. Followed the instructions to add a new Cache drive, but it has come up as being BTRFS formatted, not XFS (which is the default in the disk settings). Can I reformat easily enough or is there a reason Unraid prefers BTRFS for Cache drives? Then I need to stop docker, do all that, move the image, then run mover? (where do I find that again??) Thanks.
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    Hmm, I kind of wanted to set the drive to "app and data" only if possible and not bother with the cache part of things... I'm in no hurry to move things to the server and rather write directly to shares. I presume this is possible?
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    Ok, thanks for the replies. Sounds like 1 VM plus docker image is doable. Actually the docker image, this is the runtime right? So the application data itself is completely separate, e.g. the Plex DB. To be honest I have no idea why I would need a VM at this point in time, but one never knows I guess.