[Solved] Shuffling Drives in 5.0+

[Schar]

Hi all,

 

Due to my OCD tendencies, I am trying to shuffle drive assignments in my UNRAID box. I have upgraded a load of smaller drives to 2TB and shunted the offending smaller drives to an external cage. Consequently the drive numbering is offensive to me (!).

 

I have read the FAQ/Wiki and other threads and cannot find a definitive (read: safe) way of shuffling drives within 5.0. I am currently on b13.

 

If I have to perform a partity check after the fact to be safe, I am not worried; but I would rather avoid losing protection in the meantime.

 

I do not intend to add/remove any drives during the operation

 

Thanks in advance.

[prostuff1]

Hi all,

 

Due to my OCD tendencies, I am trying to shuffle drive assignments in my UNRAID box. I have upgraded a load of smaller drives to 2TB and shunted the offending smaller drives to an external cage. Consequently the drive numbering is offensive to me (!).

 

I have read the FAQ/Wiki and other threads and cannot find a definitive (read: safe) way of shuffling drives within 5.0. I am currently on b13.

 

If I have to perform a partity check after the fact to be safe, I am not worried; but I would rather avoid losing protection in the meantime.

 

I do not intend to add/remove any drives during the operation

 

Thanks in advance.

What do you mean by "shuffle"  A better description of what you are looking to do would be a huge help in trying to help you out.

 

If you are want to get sda to line up with disk1 and so on, that is a fruitless effort that is pointless to try and do.

[Schar]

Apologies (& thanks for answering),

 

What I meant was that I want to number the drives in the case 1-7, and the drives that are in the external caddy 10-15 in the manager.

 

Currently they are all mixed up, but I want to put a little order to them

 

I could do a complete initconfig and re-start but I assumed there must be a better way of doing it.

 

(Parity is in the case).

 

e.g.

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=FAQ#What_is_the_safe_way_to_rearrange_disk_numbers.2C_assignments.2C_slots.2C_etc.3F

If I follow these instructions, there is no ability to restart the array, instead the admin page states "invalid expansion"

 

[prostuff1]

The only way you are going to be able to do this is to do an initconfig.

 

if you can figure out the serial numbers on the drives and move them around then you can make them match what the webGUI says already.

 

The webGUI has the serial number of the drive so you should be able to figure it out.

[Schar]

Sweet thank you, I just wanted to make sure that there was no other sneaky way of doing this.

I assume a re-check of parity will be triggered??

 

Cheers.

[dgaschk]

Parity will be re-created. Initconfig invalidates parity.

[Schar]

Thanks all, that confirmed my suspicion.

 

There may be a feature request in this...