June 3, 201412 yr I had installed a 2TB hard drive into my array which almost immediately had issues (unable to read from it). I picked up a new replacement drive which was also 2TB, precleared it and am now attempting to replace it. I unassigned the bad drive, powered down, swapped the drives and powered back up. It now says Disk 4, Not Installed. I selected the new pre-cleared drive from the dropdown and I'm getting a "Replacement disk is too small" error. Again, this is also a 2TB drive so I'm not sure what it issue is. When i start the array without attempting to add a new drive it says it is mounting the missing disk and still lists the size/free size but lists it as "not installed". I have a parity drive but I do not have an option of attempting to rebuild it. Below is a link to my syslog http://bit.ly/1knk3ES Thank you in advance.
June 4, 201412 yr Author Fix ended up being to just create a new config. *edit for clarification* This solution was only for the "replacement disk is too small" issue I was having. I still had to make sure any data I had on the disk I was replacing was backed up or accounted for.
June 4, 201412 yr New config would cause you to loose all data on a drive you need to rebuild. If yours was empty or near empty maybe not a big deal. But don't want a stray user finding this thread and thinking a new config was going to enable rebuilding a disk onto a disk that is reported smaller. It will NOT!
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