Hi guys,

 

Rookie here looking for advise.

 

Wanted to remove a 4TB disk as it is getting old 6+ years and since I have enough storage space as is.

I followed the guide at https://wiki.unraid.net/Shrink_array using the "The Clear Drive Then Remove Drive Method"

I am at step 8 but the speed is horrendous.

 

 

... and I have an idea why that is...

 

I thought I could get an ETA if I entered the following in the console:

dd bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md5 status=progress

 

I have however found out that this also starts a clear disk process.

I therefore believe I have 2x processes running.

 

Here is my terminal:

 

Can I somehow stop one of the processes to get back on track?

If not, can I somehow remedy the situation in another manner?

 

Hope for your assistance yet again.

Thanks.

 

/phatty

 

 

Much faster to skip the clearing and just rebuild parity with the disks you want to keep.

 

Are all your disks healthy?

Hi Jonathan!

Thanks for getting back.

Yeah, my disks are healthy and most of the ones remaining are less than 2 year old WD reds.

 

If I want to rebuild, do I just try to stop the array after which I unassign the 4TB disk I want to remove?

 

/phatty

I just tried to stop the array to rebuild the parity instead.

I can however not stop it, I assume, because the clear scripts are running.

 

Any idea how I stop the scripts or stop the array?

If the console is still showing the running command CTRL-C should stop it.