March 20, 20251 yr Hi, I am increasing the size of my parity disks. I have an xfs encrypted array with 2 parity drives and am running unraid 7.0.0. I am planning to: Stop Array Select No Device for the parity drives Restart the array in Maintenance Mode Stop the array Replace both parity drives with two new, larger drivers Select the new parity drives in the array Restart array Wait for parity to rebuild Is this right? Thank you
March 20, 20251 yr Community Expert Solution What you posted would work, but not sure that steps 3 and 4 are actually necessary. Regardless you should keep the old parity drives intact until step 8 completes error free.
March 20, 20251 yr Author Yes, will definitely keep the original parities until everything is back and healthy. I thought steps 3 and 4 were necessary to ensure that the original parity drives were forgotten. If I can skip them, sweet! Thank you
March 20, 20251 yr Community Expert 1 hour ago, geeksheikh said: I thought steps 3 and 4 were necessary to ensure that the original parity drives were forgotten. If I can skip them, sweet! I THINK that only applies to data drives, but it is easy enough to try to skip those steps and do them if required.
March 20, 20251 yr Community Expert Even step 2 isn't necessary, even for data drives. When you assign the new drives and start the array, that is all that is needed for Unraid to update the assignments. 3 hours ago, geeksheikh said: Stop Array Select No Device for the parity drives Restart the array in Maintenance Mode Stop the array Replace both parity drives with two new, larger drivers Select the new parity drives in the array Restart array Wait for parity to rebuild
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