lanky8804 Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 Hi Have been upgrading drives from 3tb to 8tb ones however my data has not been rebuilt. Steps: 1. Ensured parity was good and no errors 2. Followed official guidance to swap drive: https://wiki.unraid.net/Replacing_a_Data_Drive 3. Left overnight to complete but no data restored. I have 2 things that i think might have caused it. 1. Not sure if when restarted after replacing the drive a parity sync started 2. I changed the format of the drive from reiserfs to xfs and selected/clicked the format button. I still have the original drive which was removed from the system, it has just been unplugged. I have not done anything else for fear of making it worse before getting guidance. I don't think my logs will help as has been restarted Can someone help me in the correct procedure to resolve Can I plug in the old data drive with a new config to get it back to previous then retry upgrading/replacing the drive?? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 7 minutes ago, lanky8804 said: 2. I changed the format of the drive from reiserfs to xfs and selected/clicked the format button. You can't do this, formatting will delete everything and update parity accordingly, restore the data from the old disk. Quote Link to comment
lanky8804 Posted March 3, 2022 Author Share Posted March 3, 2022 1 hour ago, JorgeB said: You can't do this, formatting will delete everything and update parity accordingly, restore the data from the old disk. Haven't done this before, could you please give me direction. Thanks Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 If you want to change the filesystem you need to move the data elsewhere, then change filesystem by formatting, then restore the data, more info below: Quote Link to comment
lanky8804 Posted March 3, 2022 Author Share Posted March 3, 2022 39 minutes ago, JorgeB said: If you want to change the filesystem you need to move the data elsewhere, then change filesystem by formatting, then restore the data, more info below: Ok thank you for my next disk upgrade i will do this. How can i copy the data from my old 3tb to my new 8tb already formatted to xfs. Can i use krusader or something similar? Can i just plug in my old 3tb leave it as an unassigned disk and then move/copy the files to the new 8tb? Quote Link to comment
Solution JorgeB Posted March 3, 2022 Solution Share Posted March 3, 2022 Mount the old disk with UD then use your favorite tool, you can use krusader, midnight commander (mc on the console), windows explorer, etc. Quote Link to comment
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