Messed up shrink array? Help!

[phatass]

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

 

 

[JonathanM]

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

 

Are all your disks healthy?

[phatass]

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

[phatass]

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?

[JonathanM]

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