So I just had a disc fail (link to original post), I'm going to remove the disc and but not replace it immediately, I just want to move the existing data to my current array discs and disable emulation.

So from reading, I think I should be able to copy the files from mnt/deadDisc to mnt/GoodDisc in Krusader, then remove the deadDisc and then rebuild parity?

I want to sanity check this stuff before I start moving files and break anything so advice/handholding is appreciated.

I've checked and all I have on the deadDisc is media (movies/tv) and some torrents. If I copy those to the corresponding folders on goodDisc, I'm thinking/hoping Plex and QBittorrent et al will continue working just fine? I've stopped those images for now anyways.

Yes, that should be fine.

1 hour ago, JorgeB said:

Yes, that should be fine.

I posted in Reddit about this same topic and some people recommended using Unbalance but there's also an interesting suggestion of utilising mover. Thoughts? - https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/s/02vKfzm4yQ

Edited February 17Feb 17 by killian

With 7.2 you can use the mover to empty a disk, I would recommend that over Unbalanced.

7 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

With 7.2 you can use the mover to empty a disk, I would recommend that over Unbalanced.

Do you know if there are any plans to add to mover the option to Clear a disk after emptying it so that it can be removed without affecting parity? Feels like it might be a nice addition in a scenario like this one.

Copy is better and faster than move in this scenario, since it doesn't require writing (deleting from) the dead (emulated) disk.

4 hours ago, itimpi said:

Do you know if there are any plans to add to mover the option to Clear a disk after emptying it so that it can be removed without affecting parity?

I believe that's been mentioned, but I don't know for when.

Currently running mover after setting Disc2 as "Emptying disk(s)" in Global Share Settings...