March 21, 20251 yr I have unraid setup that was upgraded from 6, using zfs as the primary storage. I do not use the array drive, but have one just because it was required in unraid 6. All shares are in zfs. There are no files on the array. Without assuming I know anything, how do I get rid of the array and usb drive that makes it up, with no other changes? I've seen discussions around 3 different methods, new config, array shrinking, and stopping the array and changing the array to no drive. None of which sound exactly right, or at leave enough doubt that I don't know what the end result will be. Not to mention "new config" being a bit scary sounding looking at its warnings to be honest.
March 21, 20251 yr Community Expert 12 minutes ago, scot said: how do I get rid of the array and usb drive that makes it up, with no other changes? Tools - New Config - Keep only Pool assignments - Apply
March 21, 20251 yr Community Expert Other method: stop array - set all members to "no disk" - set # array drives to "none" - start array (yeah, sounds silly, but you always need to start the non existant array...) Edited March 22, 20251 yr by MAM59
March 22, 20251 yr Community Expert 4 hours ago, MAM59 said: Other method: stop array - set # array drives to "none" - start array (yeah, sounds silly, but you always need to start the non existant array...) I don’t think this works if you’ve already created the array. I couldn’t do this with my cache pool as I couldn’t reduce the number of disks below the amount in the pool.
March 22, 20251 yr Community Expert 11 hours ago, MAM59 said: stop array - set # array drives to "none" - start array That won't work with already assigned array devices, only a new config can get rid of them.
March 22, 20251 yr Community Expert 29 minutes ago, JorgeB said: That won't work with already assigned array devices, only a new config can get rid of them. Sorry to have to correct you, I just tried it out, it worked! * stop the array * go to the array tab * unassign all array drives (set drive to "no disk") * set # drives to "none" (it will only appear if you have unassigned all drives before) * start the array (no array anymore)
March 22, 20251 yr Community Expert 1 hour ago, MAM59 said: Sorry to have to correct you, I just tried it out, it worked! You are correct, pretty sure that didn't work, but I was wrong.
March 22, 20251 yr Community Expert 4 hours ago, JorgeB said: You are correct, pretty sure that didn't work, but I was wrong. Don't worry, I was not sure either (just remembered it faintly). That's why I have tried it out again. I guess I have stumbled upon it whilst playing around with 7.0 beta or so. Maybe it was "added" unintentionally as a side effect in the GUI ? I only mentioned it becaused he has asked for a method that does not set any pools at risk. And this way, only array drives can be affected. Edited March 22, 20251 yr by MAM59
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