January 2, 20242 yr Hello, thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Here is my current scenario: - I have an old 6TB disc which I removed from my server. - Before removing the 6TB drive, I moved all of the data via the unbalance plug-in to another drive. The drive was completely empty. - The 6TB drive was formatted with ReiserFS. - I just installed a new 20TB drive, in place of the 6TB drive. - I started the array, and began the data rebuild process. - I realized after starting the data rebuild that I wanted to move away from ReiserFS, so I stopped the data rebuild. Changed the filesystem of the drive and formatted it. - I then re-started the data rebuild. Have any endangered any of my data via this process? I still have the 6TB drive, it is healthy, and I have a flash back-up should I need to go back to the old configuration.
January 2, 20242 yr Solution 6 hours ago, JPilla415 said: Have any endangered any of my data via this process? Not if the disk was empty, also reiserfs does not support 20TB filesystems, so you really needed to change.
January 2, 20242 yr Author OK, thanks very much for the clarification. I know it was empty as I cleared it, with the intention of shrinking the array, in order to remove the disk. However, I read that the script method of zeroing the drive was no longer the preferred approach with recent versions of Unraid, so I decided to scale up my drive sizes instead. I have one more drive with ReiserFS still kicking around. Is the best method to fully empty it, format it and THEN remove/replace the drive? Edited January 2, 20242 yr by JPilla415
January 2, 20242 yr Author Ah, fair point. In this case, I want to replace the drive with a larger capacity drive.
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