Hi all

 

One of my hard drives crashed, and is now missing in my array. I think its completely dead, as I'm not able to see it anymore.

Now to my question. How do I rebuild the drive again when my new data drive is bigger than my parity drive?

I read the official manual in the wiki, and as far as i understand it should be possible with swap-disable.

 

From manual:

You must replace a failed disk with a disk which is as big or bigger than the original and not bigger than the parity disk. If the replacement disk is larger than your parity disk, then the system permits a special configuration change called swap-disable.

For swap-disable, you use your existing parity disk to replace the failed disk, and you install your new big disk as the parity disk:

Stop the array.

Power down the unit.

Replace the parity hard disk with a new bigger one.

Replace the failed hard disk with you old parity disk.

Power up the unit.

Start the array.

 

Is this possible under 5.0b12?

 

 

Tia/Lappen

 

Is this possible under 5.0b12?

It should be.  (although you might be the first to try it under 5.0b12.)

Thx, doing a swap/disable right now by following the instructions. It's copying parity to the new drive...so far, so good...even on 5.0b12a 

 

/Lappen

 

Update: All went well