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Will do thx

The screenshot above is where it ended up, with nothing changed after the drives were removed and the new config was done oer instructions. That is exactly what I did, and again, to make sure of it.

Tried and redone, no difference :(

Actually, I have done that as well as pool and all. nothing happens, and that is why I am confused. I have done this a few times in the past, and this has never happened.

Any ideas here would be awesome

Okay, I shut down the server, removed the drives, restarted the server, and all looked well with the server showing the proper drives missing. I then went and tried to do a new config and got no results at all. All the drives are empty. Is there a limit to the amount of drives to remove at a time? Otherwise what am I doing wrong now?...lol I have put the drives back in and restarted the server and array to make sure all is well and it is fine.

Will attempt tomorrow Thx Loads, Rick

One last question then. Am I better off waiting until after doing this to install the second parity or not?

I agree, is there a better way without taking forever, or many days at least?

I am adding a second parity and hoping to remove 4 drives (shrink the array) as well. I have moved all the data from the drives and am looking to do this properly to cause the least amount of pain...lol. Am I correct in assuming that I can remove the drives and then reconfigure (new config), running parity rebuild? I am very hesitant to do it this way with no parity, since it is what I call a large server, and the data is very long and arduous process to recover. Any advice here is greatly appreciated as always. Thanks all, Rick

I am upgrading both parity drives and removing three old drives. I have three old wd efrx 2TB drives to remove (used ckear-me script), the first one was removed flawlessly and took about 5 hours, the second one I had to abort after 18 hours as I was sure something was wrong. It is a very large array, but I surely do not believe it, expecially since they were empty (except for clear-me folder), should take that long. It had removed the 'clear-me' folder required for identification by the script. Am I correct to assume something went wrong and that I was correct in aborting the script? At this point should I replace the parity drives, remove the empty drives and rebuild the array keeping the original parity drives just in case? log_10162023.txt

I guess i stay at 6.9.0 then

Has this ever been resolved, I am still at 6.8+ and will never go to 6.9 unless it does...

Yes. I ended up removing everything and reformatting the disc. I have replaced the data and all is back to normal.

I have checked permissions and still have not been able to get rid of these guys Any help is much appreciated thanks Info in sig is correct