svennibenni Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 Hi in order to get more space on my array of 8 drives a 4TB I assume I have to replace the parity disk first. Please advice how to do so - I dont want to loose any data I already bought two new 8TB disks - one for the parity and one for the array itself. Thanks in advance Sven Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 29 minutes ago, svennibenni said: in order to get more space on my array of 8 drives a 4TB I assume I have to replace the parity disk first. Please advice how to do so - I dont want to loose any data You first need to upgrade the parity drive: stop array assign 8TB drive in its place start array to build parity on the 8TB drive i would recommend keeping the old 4TB parity drive intact until the building of parity on the 8TB drive completes as this would give recovery options if one of the 4TB data drives happened to fail during this process. once you have the parity upgraded to 8TB you can add the other 8TB drive and the old 4TB parity drive as new drives to the array. 1 Quote Link to comment
svennibenni Posted August 24, 2023 Author Share Posted August 24, 2023 thanks for your reply So I dont have to do anything - after starting the array it will build up the new 8 parity drive by itself ? Quote Link to comment
svennibenni Posted August 27, 2023 Author Share Posted August 27, 2023 thanks so far - parity disk is almost done Now the second part is exchanging one 4TB data disk to a new 8TB disk Also just shutting down the system and swap disks and everything will work out fine by itself again ? Or do I have to do anythin? Of course, I made a backup in case something goes wrong Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 2 hours ago, svennibenni said: Also just shutting down the system and swap disks and everything will work out fine by itself again ? Basically yes, assign the new disk and start the array to begin the rebuild. Quote Link to comment
svennibenni Posted August 29, 2023 Author Share Posted August 29, 2023 everything worked out just fine - totally hassle free Thanks for your kind help this far I still have a problem with the array : in "fix common problems" I always get /var/log is getting full (currently 100 % used) Can I delete any app to avoid this behaviour ? I enclosed the diagnostics file mediengrab-diagnostics-20230829-1818.zip Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 Try this: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/118286-nvme-drives-throwing-errors-filling-logs-instantly-how-to-resolve/?do=findComment&comment=1165009 Quote Link to comment
svennibenni Posted August 30, 2023 Author Share Posted August 30, 2023 after adding the second line I do have a third line in my config - will this be a problem or should I just delete the third line ? kernel /bzimage append initrd=/bzroot pcie_aspm=off append pcie_acs_override=downstream initrd=/bzroot Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 change to: kernel /bzimage append pcie_aspm=off pcie_acs_override=downstream initrd=/bzroot Quote Link to comment
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