terrastrife Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 So I have a bunch of empty space, I'd like to remove more than one empty data disk at once and rebuild parity after new config, this should be fine yeah? The plan: remove two data disks and parity disk, replace parity with one of the remaining empty data disks hit new config and recreate parity. I can't work out a reason for why it wouldn't work so all green? Quote Link to comment
sureguy Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 I don't see anything wrong with your plan, just so long as you make sure you assign the right drive as parity. Sent from a mobile device, sorry for any typos. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 That will work fine -- HOWEVER, do a parity check BEFORE you do this, to confirm all is well. If there are ANY sync errors, do it again to confirm they were resolved. [Do correcting checks so any errors are fixed] Once you know you have a "clean" array, then doing a New Config lets you set the configuration however you'd like. Quote Link to comment
terrastrife Posted October 24, 2013 Author Share Posted October 24, 2013 This month marks the sad event when I retire my unRAID for tRAID. Quote Link to comment
RamHawk Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 I always backup my array config file and print the list of HDD's before making changes (add or remove drives). I'll generally backup the whole USB stick too since I have to power off the machine to add / remove drives. It doesn't take very long and it will save a lot of headaches if things go wrong. Quote Link to comment
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