May 25, 20215 yr So after many days moving my files around I’ve freed up 2 drives that have no shares or files on them but unraid is reporting 14Gb used and 6.67 on 2 empty drives. Both drives are 2tb wd reds. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
May 25, 20215 yr Community Expert Sounds about right. Even a drive with no files on it will have space used to hold the file system structure information, with the amount used varying by file system type. Surprised the values are not the same if the disks are the same size and using the same file system. Having said that the more recent versions of XFS have a larger overhead when creating an empty file system so maybe that explains the difference?
May 25, 20215 yr Author Sounds about right. Even a drive with no files on it will have space used to hold the file system structure information, with the amount used varying by file system type. Surprised the values are not the same if the disks are the same size and using the same file system. Having said that the more recent versions of XFS have a larger overhead when creating an empty file system so maybe that explains the difference?Yeah I’m not sure. What would be the safest approach to “wipe” the drives so that the used space is the same?Because the drive is empty can I stop the array, un assign it, format it xfs then put it back in the array? Will this trigger a rebuild?Both drives are already xfs. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
May 25, 20215 yr Community Expert 3 hours ago, SavageAUS said: Yeah I’m not sure. What would be the safest approach to “wipe” the drives so that the used space is the same? Because the drive is empty can I stop the array, un assign it, format it xfs then put it back in the array? Will this trigger a rebuild? Both drives are already xfs. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk You definitely do NOT want to go any route involving a rebuild as that cannot change a drives content. If you want to reformat the drives the procedure is covered here in the online documentation that can be accessed via the Manual link at the bottom of the Unraid GUI.
May 25, 20215 yr Author That is why I am asking the question [emoji2]I can live with it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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