I am wondering if you can move drives to a different number in unraid and still keep the same share.  Is it as simple as changing the drive #  in the share?

 

Here is what I have:

Drives 1,2 = TV Shows

Drives 3,4,5 = Movies

Drives 6 = User Share 1

Drives 7 = User Share 2

 

What I want to do is to add a drive to Movies and move the other shares down one:

Drives 1,2 = TV Shows

Drives 3,4,5,6 = Movies

Drives 7 = User Share 1

Drives 8 = User Share 2

 

Yes, you can swap 2 drives at a time and re-start the array without hurting the parity. You first add the new drive as #8 to the array and start it to expand the array. Next, stop the array, swap say 6 & 8 and start the array. Then, stop the array and swap 7 & 8 and start the array again. Now, go to the user share settings and put in the new disk numbers.

 

Peter

Thanks for the help i wil do that.  Now once i put the new drive in the share will the high water Allocation method automaticly start working with the new drive or is there somthing else i need to do?

Yes, once you set the user share Movies to "disks3, disk4, disk5, disk 6" then it will begin using disk6 as appropriate.

 

Peter