July 12, 20232 yr We replaced a ZFS drive with a larger disk and changed the file system to XFS … and did a parity rebuild. Mainly because my motherboard doesn’t support ECC. And need to move to XFS. When the drive finished the parity rebuild it’s blank. From what I gather with other posts, this was a cardinal violation of Unraid file systems: Tho shall not change the array file systems. I have the old drive (the one we swapped) and if there is something that we’re overlooking, is it possible to put the old drive in where it was before, click new configuration, sort the drives in the same order and restart the array. Or has the parity done it’s thing. The drive sizes are the same used and free for the other drives that stayed as is. All the data is backed up elsewhere, so nothing is lost. We’re still learning, so please be gentle. A journey. Appreciate the help and this group for teaching us newbies the hard lessons. TIA. Edited July 12, 20232 yr by pixelsandpointers
July 12, 20232 yr Community Expert Solution 3 hours ago, pixelsandpointers said: We replaced a ZFS drive with a larger disk and changed the file system to XFS If you changed fs and formatted the disk to XFS the rebuild will just rebuild an empty XFS disk, you cannot change the filesystem with a rebuild: 3 hours ago, pixelsandpointers said: is it possible to put the old drive in where it was before, click new configuration, sort the drives in the same order and restart the array. It is, you then must re-sync parity.
July 13, 20232 yr Author 19 hours ago, JorgeB said: If you changed fs and formatted the disk to XFS the rebuild will just rebuild an empty XFS disk, you cannot change the filesystem with a rebuild: It is, you then must re-sync parity. Thank you, back to normal and will copy to XFS drives on another server. Appreciate the insights.
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