Remove disk from array

[Old-T]

Had a bad disk that failed.

I put another drive in but during the rebuild it reported failure as well.

Since it was a relatively small disk I decided to move the contents from that disk to the other drives.

Since the disk had failed, it was emulated.

I move everything from the I shut down the array, disconnected the disk and restarted the array again.

This is what I see in the array

The problem is that since it is now emulated it Unraid starts to put data there again.

How do I remove the disk completely?

// Tommy

[JorgeB]

https://wiki.unraid.net/Shrink_array

[Old-T]

2 hours ago, JorgeB said:

https://wiki.unraid.net/Shrink_array

Yeah, that's what I tried (and thought) I did.

This is what my array shows:

If I check the dashboard I get this:

I cannot put back the Disk 2 since it isn't alive any longer 😞

 

Somewhere along the way I've done something bad that I cannot correct.

As of now, all my new data does into Disk 2 since I cannot exclude the emulated disk from the share I've made for my media.
Selectable disks in the "exclude from"

[JorgeB]

1 minute ago, Old-T said:

Yeah, that's what I tried

It wasn't done correctly, try again, after a new config the emulated disk2 would be gone.

[Old-T]

4 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

It wasn't done correctly, try again, after a new config the emulated disk2 would be gone.

Will try again!

Thank you

[Old-T]

3 hours ago, Old-T said:

Will try again!

Thank you

Correction...
I will try the operation when I successfully can stop the array (it stops on "trying to unmount shares")

[JorgeB]

That will happen if something is using them, e.g., a terminal windows opened on a mounted path.

[Old-T]

On 3/27/2023 at 2:53 PM, JorgeB said:

https://wiki.unraid.net/Shrink_array

Now I know why it didn't work!
When you click for "Retain..." the dialog will hide the check box "Yes I will do this" so when I pressed "Done" nothing happened.

When I selected the check box, the Apply was enabled 😄