xrqp Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 (edited) Notice Disk 3 was a 4TB disk and is not installed. Here is screen of my current: I think it was one or two years ago I removed that physical disk as I did not need it or want it. I do not recall procedures. Now, I think maybe there is a software procedure (shrink array) that I did not do that I should have done, and that it is bad to leave it, because now I think my parity protection is being consumed for it, and If I loose another disk I really lose it. Is that correct? When I click "view" for disk 3, it shows zero folders and zero files, which is what I expected. Edited February 23, 2021 by xrqp Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 53 minutes ago, xrqp said: Now, I think maybe there is a software procedure (shrink array) that I did not do that I should have done, and that it is bad to leave it, because now I think my parity protection is being consumed for it, and If I loose another disk I really lose it. Is that correct? Pretty much. Worse, you would lose everything in the emulated disk3 at the same time. You can replace disk3 with an 8TB normally, or a larger drive using https://wiki.unraid.net/The_parity_swap_procedure Quote Link to comment
xrqp Posted February 23, 2021 Author Share Posted February 23, 2021 Thanks. I will fix this right away. I found my answer how to do it here https://wiki.unraid.net/UnRAID_6/Storage_Management#Replacing_disks I can use the "normal replacement" even though I am going from 4TB to 8TB, because my parity is already 8TB. Quote Link to comment
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