May 20, 20242 yr I have a fairly simple setup - one parity drive, one 3TB data drive and one 2TB data drive. Both data drivers are reiserfs. I see some errors recommending converting to XFS. However, when I search these forums I see a lot of detail and people doing all kinds of stuff as well as links to guides that no longer exist. Is there a simple way to accomplish this? Thanks!
May 20, 20242 yr Community Expert https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/storage-management/#converting-to-a-new-file-system-type
May 25, 20242 yr Author Ok, so I copied everything from one drive to a second drive (a new, blank drive that is XFS). Do I just change the original (reiserfs) drive to XFS, wiping it? Will the system know the new XFS drive has all the data that was in the shares? Or do I need to remap or something before i mess with the original drive?
May 25, 20242 yr 1 hour ago, viperdiver said: Ok, so I copied everything from one drive to a second drive (a new, blank drive that is XFS). Do I just change the original (reiserfs) drive to XFS, wiping it? Will the system know the new XFS drive has all the data that was in the shares? Or do I need to remap or something before i mess with the original drive? See the Converting to a New File System Type section of the online manual which is accessible via the Manual link in the bottom right corner of the GUI, Edited May 25, 20242 yr by Hoopster
May 25, 20242 yr Author 1 hour ago, Hoopster said: See the Converting to a New File System Type section of the online manual which is accessible via the Manual link in the bottom right corner of the GUI, Ya, that's what the first post was i was following; but it ends after you copy the data over. It's not clear if you need to do anything prior to reformatting the original drive with all the data on it (the data that has been copied to a new drive in the new format).
May 25, 20242 yr 2 hours ago, viperdiver said: It's not clear if you need to do anything prior to reformatting the original drive A reformat with XFS will wipe out anything on the drive. You then copy back the data from drive to which it was copied and move on to the next drive. To be safe, a parity check is a good idea at the end even if the contents of each drive have not changed. As far as the shares are concerned nothing should change as you specified which disks contain share data for each share and if you are using the same disks (just with a different format) the shares will be as they were before.
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