Ok, I was swapping a 500 gig ide drive to a 1 tb sata and screwed up and formated the new drive and then ran parity! I have 16 sata drives on Unraid, but I now have the old drive on the server as a 17th drive, but not in Unraid. I can see the Ide drive at the server as hda, but not on the tower screen on my Windows computer. I don't think I have lost the movies on the old drive because it was not on the server when I did the above. Can somebody tell me the commands to use at the server to copy the movies from the old drive to the new one. I am a linux noob. I am running 4.2.1 and everything is running perfectly.

 

Thanks

Bax 

Noob (easy) way:

 

If nothing's on the new drive, just take it out and add the old one back.  Let parity rebuild.  When done, replace it the proper way.

 

Not-so-noob way:

 

Make a new mount point, say /mnt/olddrive.  You need to know how the old drive is recognized, i.e. /dev/sda1 (probably not that, but definitely /dev something).  Then at the command prompt type "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/olddrive" without quotes (again, most likely not sda1, you have to find out what it is).  Now you can go to /mnt/olddrive and see all your old files.  Just copy them to  your array, either to the individual disk called /mnt/disk1 (or disk2, etc. up to disk15) or to the user share (i.e. /mnt/user/Movies).

 

The second way is probably the "right" way and would take less time, but if you're not comfortable doing that, the first way should be ok.  unRAID may want to rebuild parity after removing the new drive, you can let it.  It'll run overnight.  Then put in the old drive, let it do its thing again.  Then upgrade.  It's time consuming, but you're not wasting much of your time.  Just do a few clicks then wait many many hours, then check on it and do a few more clicks.

josetann,

 

Thanks, that was just what I needed! I used the second suggestion and it worked perfectly. I now have all my movies back where they belong!

 

Thanks again,

Bax