Is it possible to do this?  I have a failed 2TB Drive that had about 1TB of data and I have a Good 1.5TB that I can put in but it tells me that the drive needs to be  the same size or larger.

 

Is there anyway to get around this? since that data would fit on the drive I don;t see why this could not be done.

 

 

Thanks.

No,not possible.

Could I make the Parity Drive a regular Array member (Not have any parity running)  Then add the 1.5 TB to the array. then move data from one of the 2TB drives to the 1.5TB and then make the  2TB a parity drive?

 

 

Could I make the Parity Drive a regular Array member (Not have any parity running)

If you do that, you will immediately lose all the data on the failed disk. The array must remain as is to recover your 1 failed drive.

 

Do you have enough free space on the remaining good drives? If so, copy the failed drive contents to the other drives and remove the failed drive and rebuild parity without it.

 

The safest method is to get another 2TB drive and rebuild on it. Any other procedures greatly increase the risk of losing your data.

Here is the Situation

 

2TB Parity Drive

2TB Data Drive w/ 1TB free

2TB Failed Drive with 1.2 TB Data

 

an extra 1.5 TB Drive.

 

Is there any way that I can reconfigure my unraid without requiring another 2TB or Larger Drive and without losing data ( I have a duplicate of all that data that I can copy back if need be but I would rather avoid having to do that.

 

 

Thanks

Sorry, every scenario I can think of requires copying the data around, either from the simulated failed disk to the 1.5, or from your backups to the 1.5 after adding it into the array. The parity drive doesn't actually have any valid file data on it, it's just one element of the equation that requires the rest of the array drives to complete. I suppose the fastest way to do it would be to physically connect the 1.5 to the machine, manually create the reiserfs partition and format it, copy the data from the simulated drive to the 1.5, break the array by removing the failed 2.0 from the configuration, add the 1.5, and compute new parity from the existing 2.0 and 1.5 onto the current parity drive.