Changing from Trial Version USB in New Server Setup

[nathandonnelly]

Hi all,

I have a couple of questions that may be straightforward, but I'm a new unRAID user and just wanted some clarification before I go ahead and purchase a license during the sale weekend.

 

1. I am currently running unRAID on a 4GB USB stick. With the purchase imminent and my unRAID license being tied to the particular USB, I bought a more reliable, 32GB stick. My server is already setup sort of the way I want it. Do I just run the unRAID installer on the new stick, copy the config directory over from the old one and I should be good to go? Or do I need to do anything else to keep my server setup the way it is. I believe the old stick is going to be no good anymore, but it'd be cool if I could use it as a backup for this new stick, but I also imagine I'll need another 32GB stick for that so they match.

 

2. I recently popped in a new drive and it took about 24 hours to prepare it (or whatever the terminology was it said it was doing). When it was done, it said it was unmountable and needed to be formatted. Ran the format. It looks fine in there now, but immediately after the format it said it was using ~80GB of space. Just curious if that's the normal process. I would imagine since it was a freshly refurbished drive that it should've just formatted it and added some files during that process?

 

Some insights into this before I purchase would be appreciated since I only have a few hours left on my trial.

 

Thanks,

Nathan.

[JorgeB]

12 minutes ago, nathandonnelly said:

Do I just run the unRAID installer on the new stick, copy the config directory over from the old one and I should be good to go?

That's it, then you just need to activate the license.

 

12 minutes ago, nathandonnelly said:

but immediately after the format it said it was using ~80GB of space.

It's normal with XFS, it's filesystem overhead, other filesystems don't do that, but XFS is still the recommended one for the typical user.