April 25, 20224 yr I think I know the answer to this already, but I don't want to mess up: I recently reduced the number of drives in my array by swapping bigger drives for some smaller ones and then removing a bunch of smaller ones using these instructions: https://wiki.unraid.net/Shrink_array Everything is working fine, but I didn't give much thought to the drive assignments at the time and the former 15 drive array now 7 drive array has drives 1, 3, 7, 9 etc listed on the main page. Just for the sake of cleaning it up visually (and my OCD is nagging me) can I just use the same instructions, change the drive assignment and this time check the Parity is Already Valid box? Or am I just looking for trouble where I shouldn't?
April 25, 20224 yr If you only have parity1 then you can do that as parity1 does not include the slot number in its calculations. However if you have parity2 then you have to rebuild parity as the parity2 calculation includes the slot number as one of its inputs so changing slot numbers invalidates parity2.
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