I wanted to shrink my array and preserved my array/cache pools (I did double check I had both selected). Removed my drives I wanted to shrink, booted into unraid and only my cache pool was preserved. I do have a backup of my disk assignments. If I assign the disks that were originally assigned, how do I know the data would still be there?

Edited January 8, 20224 yr by Fuggin

Solved it on my own.

 

Moved a backup of my flash drive super.dat and super.old to the unraid flash drive, did a new config again. All previous array drives showed up and the shrunk drives became unassigned. Odd...but a learning experience.