That was my initial urge to do, but I'm holding off on the off chance someone has advice on this.
I was thinking about this and I'm pretty sure the only reason this worked is because I DON'T have a parity drive. I'm pretty sure things would have stopped if I had a parity drive, because the parity drive would not be able to keep up the the changes.
I also think it would have corrupted parity, but that is a guess and nothing more.