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    Re: Format XFS on replacement drive / Convert from RFS to XFS (discussion only)

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    I simply moved all data off one disk, formatted to XFS and then kept leap frogging all my data around until every disk was empty so I could format to XFS. It certainly took a while, but got it done eventually.

     

    I personally would certainly get your drive backup before I did anything. When you rebuild your drive its going to build bit by bit back to your reiser disk so your going to have to reformat it after the fact when your data is backup and moved.

     

    If your new disk is going to be a 4TB you have plenty of room to shuffle your files around based on the amount of free space you have.

     

    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

    Re: Format XFS on replacement drive / Convert from RFS to XFS (discussion only)

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    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

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