UncleDirtNap Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 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? Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
UncleDirtNap Posted April 25, 2022 Author Share Posted April 25, 2022 Only parity1, so I should be good. Thank you! Quote Link to comment
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