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Ah-ha! Makes sense. Thanks for that. V

Ok thanks for the response. That stuff is over my head so if you says that's not unusual, I will take your word for it.

No, your sequence, was my sequence.

I recently cleared, formatted to xfs and added to the array a new WD 8T drive. I just noticed after I started a copy to the new drive that it showed a space usage of 55G. Anyone have any idea how I would have that much disk usage after a 'clear' and format, before I sent data to it? Disk-Clear doesn't actually take up disk space does it? Thanks for the help. V

Thank you JorgeB. V

Thank you for the response. Then drives can be physically removed at any point? Even reformatted to a different file system the drive is still not 'cleared'? Thanks again. V

Good evening, I could use some clarification on the 'Shrink Array' documentation under 'Unraid v6.2 and later' procedures. At what step in the procedure for "The "Remove Drives Then Rebuild Parity" Method" do you physically remove the drives? Secondly, in the "The "Clear Drive Then Remove Drive" Method", if you clear the drive via reformatting, do you still have to run the script? Couldn't you just jump from step 4 to 9? Thank you for the help. V