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Changing RAID1 Pool to Single After Removing a Disk

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Hello, I am a newbie to Unraid.
 

Currently, my pool consists of two 4TB SSDs configured in RAID1.

I wanted to remove one disk and keep only a single disk in the pool.
 

I followed these steps:

(1) Stopped the array

(2) Removed one disk from the pool

(3) Changed the allocation profile of the remaining disk to "Single"

(4) Changed the slot count to 1 and started the array
 

However, I keep seeing the following error message:
"Cache pool BTRFS missing device(s) SSD 4096G (nvme1n1)"
 

Additionally, the slot count reverted to 2, and the SIZE is displayed as 8TB instead of 4TB.
 

How can I ensure that the remaining pool operates normally?
 

Thank you.

Solved by JorgeB

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That's not how you do it, but are you running v6.12 or v7.0? Btrfs device removal in the latter is not currently working, but I can tell you the steps to do it manually, but in any case, please post the diagnostics.

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11 hours ago, JorgeB said:

That's not how you do it, but are you running v6.12 or v7.0? Btrfs device removal in the latter is not currently working, but I can tell you the steps to do it manually, but in any case, please post the diagnostics.

Oh, I forgot to mention the version—it's 7.0.0.
If I had known about the diagnostics feature, I would have saved the logs beforehand, but I already solved the issue in a rather foolish way.
Fortunately, I hadn't moved any files to the array yet, so I just backed up the pool, formatted it, and started over with a new config.
For future reference, could you provide the manual procedure?

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Assuming the pool was raid1, first convert to single using the GUI, then manually remove the device:

 

btrfs dev del /dev/sdX1 /mnt/<pool_name>

 

When done, reimport the pool with the remaining device.

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