Noim Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 (edited) Hi guys, Because of the rising energy costs, I decided to move my drives from my r710 to a more energy efficient hardware. In my r710 I used a PERC card which just passed the disk to the system. Because of this, the disk are now called different. This is why unraid says they are the wrong disks. But they are not. Both disk just contain the file system, and were not used with any raid feature of the PERC card. I verified this with Unassigned Devices. How can I force unraid to accept the renamed drives? Greetings Nils Edit: I don't have any parity disk. Just this 2 drives. Both a xfs (formatted by unraid). What happens if I just add both drives as drive 3 and 4? Will unraid format them again? Or just use these with their files? Edited October 22, 2022 by Noim Add more infos Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 Go to Tools and do a New Config. Quote Link to comment
Noim Posted October 22, 2022 Author Share Posted October 22, 2022 What will happen if I start the array with the new config? Will it wipe my drives? I mean, they are formatted correctly with xfs by unraid. I can't remember if unraid prompts you first, or just format automatically. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 2 minutes ago, Noim said: Will it wipe my drives? No, unless you assign them as parity, it won't touch data drives, though because they were on a raid controller there's a chance it won't like the partition layout, but it still won't delete anything. Quote Link to comment
Noim Posted October 22, 2022 Author Share Posted October 22, 2022 Yes, he doesn't like the partition layout. Any way to fix this? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 Easiest way is to use a new disk, let Unraid format it, then mount the old disk with UD and transfer the data, other option is to add parity and then rebuild one disk at a time, Unraid will recreate the partitions. Quote Link to comment
Noim Posted October 22, 2022 Author Share Posted October 22, 2022 (edited) Easy is very expensive and cost more time. What are some other options? This is the fdisk output: Disk /dev/sdb: 7.28 TiB, 8001563222016 bytes, 15628053168 sectors Disk model: WDC WD80EZAZ-11T Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 8253E41B-E414-4985-BD29-FBE663B171ED Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sdb1 64 15626928094 15626928031 7.3T Linux filesystem Edited October 22, 2022 by Noim Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 If it is only the disk name that has changed but the partitions are OK then it is highly likely that the New Config option will ‘Just Work’. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 Starting sector is correct but the partition is not using the full disk capacity, and Unraid requires that, it should be possible to resize or just create a new partition on top of that one with the same starting sector but using the full disk and if that is the only issue Unraid should then accept it, but it's not something I can try so cannot say for sure if it will work or not. Quote Link to comment
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