January 11, 20242 yr Hi everybody, I'm in the process of converting 4 drives from reiserfs (deprecated) to xfs. I thought it would be simple (switch drives and rebuild) but it seems that Unraid will rebuild the drive in reiserfs, which makes sense but is not a good news for me. I also want to take this opportunity to update these disks by replacing them with larger disks. I want my data to be as safe as possible during this update. I've read a lot of stuff but I think that I'm trying too hard to simplify the transition so I can do it in the least amount of time and effort and I'm lost. So, I need some help. Let's start with my array : Device Identification FS Size Parity WDC_WD40EFRX-68N32N0 - 4 TB Disk 1 WDC_WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 - 3 TB reiserfs 3 TB Disk 2 WDC_WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 - 3 TB reiserfs 3 TB Disk 3 WDC_WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 - 3 TB reiserfs 3 TB Disk 4 WDC_WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 - 3 TB reiserfs 3 TB Disk 5 WDC_WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 - 3 TB xfs 3 TB Disk 6 WDC_WD40EFRX-68N32N0 - 4 TB xfs 4 TB Disk 7 WDC_WD40EFRX-68N32N0 - 4 TB xfs 4 TB Disk 8 WDC_WD40EFZX-68AWUN0 - 4 TB xfs 4 TB Then, I've upgraded my parity so I can put bigger drives than 4 TB in my array and I've added a second parity drive. So now, my array look like this : Device Identification FS Size Parity HGST_HUH721010ALE604 - 10 TB Parity 2 HGST_HUH721010ALE604 - 10 TB Disk 1 WDC_WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 - 3 TB reiserfs 3 TB Disk 2 WDC_WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 - 3 TB reiserfs 3 TB Disk 3 WDC_WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 - 3 TB reiserfs 3 TB Disk 4 WDC_WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 - 3 TB reiserfs 3 TB Disk 5 WDC_WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 - 3 TB xfs 3 TB Disk 6 WDC_WD40EFRX-68N32N0 - 4 TB xfs 4 TB Disk 7 WDC_WD40EFRX-68N32N0 - 4 TB xfs 4 TB Disk 8 WDC_WD40EFZX-68AWUN0 - 4 TB xfs 4 TB So now, I have my old 4 TB parity on hand + 3 others 10 TB drives, all emptied and precleared. So, I can transfer and move files around if needs be. The expected result at the end of all this would be : Device Identification FS Size Parity HGST_HUH721010ALE604 - 10 TB Parity 2 HGST_HUH721010ALE604 - 10 TB Disk 1 HGST_HUH721010ALE604 - 10 TB xfs 10 TB Disk 2 HGST_HUH721010ALE604 - 10 TB xfs 10 TB Disk 3 HGST_HUH721010ALE604 - 10 TB xfs 10 TB Disk 4 WDC_WD40EFRX-68N32N0 - 4 TB xfs 4 TB (my old replaced parity drive) Disk 5 WDC_WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 - 3 TB xfs 3 TB (no change) Disk 6 WDC_WD40EFRX-68N32N0 - 4 TB xfs 4 TB (no change) Disk 7 WDC_WD40EFRX-68N32N0 - 4 TB xfs 4 TB (no change) Disk 8 WDC_WD40EFZX-68AWUN0 - 4 TB xfs 4 TB (no change) I've take a quick look on unBALANCE and rsync, which, I think, might help me to get the job done. Of course, if possible, I would like to preserve parity during the transition but I'm open to suggestions, even if they're a bit risky. Thank you everyone for your help.
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