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Agree'd, i currently have the drive rebuilding, i will remote in after i get to the office and start shuffling files around, thanks for the info kizer! your post was the post that made me realize i could do this ! -D8A7ED

guys i was hoping you could take a look at my current config and tell me the best way to go about changing my filesystems from reiserfs to xfs, currently as i understand it, i need to ADD a 4TB BLANK disk to copy the contents of the other disk's too in from reiserfs -> xfs, here is my connundrum though, currently this server is packed with all the HDD it can hold, and the 4TB unassigned in the photo above is replacing a 2tb (array is running in emulated mode from the 4tb parity drive),. So how would i go about doing this when i cant add a blank disk ? could i move the contents of the 2tb drives to the first two drives ? (i have 3.8tb of free space total right now) then un-assign one ? thank you for the input EDIT: just found UNBALANCE https://github.com/jbrodriguez/unbalance but i am worried about doing this on an emulated array, should i first rebuild my array, then run unbalance ? or would it be just as safe to perform these actions from the parity drive ? thanks. also, is there a concise tutorial to follow to do the xfs conversion via unbalance ? thank you for all your help