May 9, 20251 yr Hi all, Two XFS-based drive failures on my dual-parity array, and I've got a functioning drive that's not quite full that I could move the contents of to other functioning drives in the array. Can I empty this drive out then switch file systems on it without invalidating parity and thus my ability to rebuild the two disabled disks/use the emulated drive contents? I ask as I've got entirely highly-compressible data in the `lost+found`/`lostfound` dirs on each disabled disk, and would make more sense to transfer it from the emulated disks onto the ZFS drive and take advantage of the compression. And am I OK to use Unbalance to move the files to other drives without invalidating parity and thus my ability to rebuild/use the emulated drive contents? Edited May 9, 20251 yr by Hammy Havoc
May 9, 20251 yr Community Expert Solution You can, but I would recommend rebuilding the disks first, since the array will be unprotected if there are any more errors, also if using the mover empty disk function, make sure you don't use with 7.1.x, since there's currently a bug.
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