November 16, 20241 yr Hey I am trying to shrink my array by a few drives but I ran into an issue after the first one. Followed the instructions given and everything worked like a charm until I needed to stop the array in order to unassign the disk. Basically the zeroing went smooth, but when wanting to stop the array, it wouldn't stop saying something like "retrying to unmount disk shares". Seeing that didn't work, I performed a clean shutdown from the interface. When the server restarted, I was told it wasn't a clean shutdown and that parity needs to be checked. I stopped the array, unassigned the drive I wanted to remove -- but now basically Unraid is expecting a replacement. A bit stuck on how to continue. Diagnostics attached. tower-diagnostics-20241116-1107.zip
November 16, 20241 yr Community Expert Solution The instructions are not quite valid for recent Unraid releases. As you found there will be issues stopping the array and doing a clean shutdown. You also have do do something to tell Unraid that the drive you want to remove is no longer being used. What you could probably do at this stage is: Use Tools>New Config with the option to keep all assignments. Return to the Main tab and unassign the disk to be removed. Tick the Parity is already valid checkbox Start the array to commit the new assignments At this point it might be worth doing a parity check in case you made a mistake in any of the earlier steps and parity was not actually completely valid.
November 16, 20241 yr Author 6 hours ago, itimpi said: The instructions are not quite valid for recent Unraid releases. As you found there will be issues stopping the array and doing a clean shutdown. You also have do do something to tell Unraid that the drive you want to remove is no longer being used. What you could probably do at this stage is: Use Tools>New Config with the option to keep all assignments. Return to the Main tab and unassign the disk to be removed. Tick the Parity is already valid checkbox Start the array to commit the new assignments At this point it might be worth doing a parity check in case you made a mistake in any of the earlier steps and parity was not actually completely valid. It actually worked fine following the steps. Thanks @itimpi!
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