Hello,

 

Unraid 6.12.13

 

Wondering if I've shot myself in the foot.   One of my drives #2, started reporting errors, so I went to replace it.    I ended up with a bigger drive which was probably my first mistake because I read some forum post that said it was fine for replacement and parity would ignore the extra space.    It's the biggest drive in the system.    And it's a shucked drive so it had the 3.3v power issue so when I first started the array the drive wasn't detected after swapping and I started it anyhow (probably mistake #2).    I didn't realize at first what was going on.    So after starting the array it no longer said my drive was missing, just empty slot #2. 

So I fix the power issue, drive now detected, and Unraid complained it was the biggest drive and wanted to do parity swap - and my old parity was now slotted in #2.    It's currently doing the parity swap - ~77% with probably 8 hours left to go.

Nothing in the UI is telling me that it will actually rebuild my old disk #2 - or last least nothing I can recognize.    Did I hose myself by starting the array originally without the disk?    Will this just automagically work once the swap in done?   Maybe I'm just being paranoid.    I've replaced disks before but was always smart enough to replace with the right size    I guess my paranoia is that it's simply going to initialize the new disk #2 as a blank disk?   

I still have the old disk #2, it was just increasing in error sectors but not "dead" yet in case I somehow need to use that. 

Any insight would be appreciated, I guess I'll find out in ~8 hours if this will just work.    As I said just nervous that the UI isn't saying "And we'll replace the old disk that was missing".   

 

Thanks!

Edited February 7, 20251 yr by Toraen

46 minutes ago, Toraen said:

Nothing in the UI is telling me that it will actually rebuild my old disk #2 - or last least nothing I can recognize.

Only after the parity copy completes, it will show the rebuild option, and you will need to start it manually.