February 26, 20242 yr I'm in the process of converting my filesystem to XFS using the swap method described in the other post: -Using Unbalance I emptied all the data from one drive (4tb) but replaced it with a new 8TB drive. -Formatted the new drive to xfs & started the array, however it wanted to do a parity rebuild. -Stopped the parity rebuild and using Unbalance to move the contents from another disc in the array (which I will convert to xfs when empty and rinse and repeat until all the discs are converted. ) -however when moving files to the new disc is still has a yellow triangle and says (DEVICE CONTENTS EMULATED CLICK TO SPIN DOWN DEVICE) It looks like it wants to rebuild, but I just need to move files from the other disc over. Is there anything I can do to stop Unraid trying to do the rebuild, or will this triangle change to green once the files are moved on to it?
February 26, 20242 yr Author 1 hour ago, JorgeB said: Just formatting a drive wouldn't cause a rebuild, please post the diagnostics. That was my thought, here ya go. Thanks diagnostics-20240226-1223.zip
February 27, 20242 yr 15 hours ago, progrocktv said: but replaced it with a new 8TB drive. I missed this part before, since you replaced the disk it will need to be rebuilt, wait for the rebuild to finish and continue.
February 27, 20242 yr Author 8 hours ago, JorgeB said: I missed this part before, since you replaced the disk it will need to be rebuilt, wait for the rebuild to finish and continue. Ah, okay. I'm moving files over to the drive now (with Unbalance) so what I'm thinking is I will movie all those files back on to other drives, let the drive rebuild and then move the files again? However since there would already be files on that drive, how would unbalance handle the duplicate files (skip, replace or other?)
February 27, 20242 yr I would recommend canceling the file move, any files already there can stay, finish the rebuild, resume moving files.
February 27, 20242 yr Author 1 minute ago, JorgeB said: I would recommend canceling the file move, any files already there can stay, finish the rebuild, resume moving files. Okay, and that won't overwrite any existing files? (just want to make sure I don't lose anything?
February 27, 20242 yr Not sure what you are asking, but what you see on the emulated disk is the same that you will see after the rebuild finishes.
February 27, 20242 yr Author 1 minute ago, JorgeB said: Not sure what you are asking, but what you see on the emulated disk is the same that you will see after the rebuild finishes. Well I moved files from another disc on to the newly installed disc and I'm worried those newly moved files would be lost if I rebuild.
February 27, 20242 yr 13 minutes ago, JorgeB said: what you see on the emulated disk is the same that you will see after the rebuild finishes. Nothing will change.
February 27, 20242 yr Author 1 minute ago, JorgeB said: Nothing will change. Okay, good. Thanks so much for your help!
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