DivideBy0 Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 (edited) Currently have 8 disk in my NAS, 1 parity and 7 in the data array and of course few cache drives. I would like to 1. shrink my array (remove a 5TB) and 2. use the empty spot to add a second 8TB to my existing 8TB parity drive (basically 2 parity drive setup) I see there is a good procedure for shrinking the array and I was wondering if I can combine with adding the second parity drive into that procedure. Any ideas, anyone done it before? I am thinking at step 7 just assign the new 8TB as secondary parity drive into the slot of the 5TB that I just removed from the array? Would that work? https://wiki.unraid.net/Shrink_array Edited January 4, 2022 by johnwhicker Quote Link to comment
Vr2Io Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 Unraid won't allow add/build parity when emulate disk in array. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 4 hours ago, johnwhicker said: Would that work? yes Quote Link to comment
DivideBy0 Posted November 20, 2021 Author Share Posted November 20, 2021 11 minutes ago, trurl said: yes Copy that Sir and thanks. Just making sure 🙂 Quote Link to comment
DivideBy0 Posted January 4, 2022 Author Share Posted January 4, 2022 Yes this procedure and adding the second parity drive in step 7 worked brilliantly. Just got done with it THANKS again Quote Link to comment
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