Disks and Drives

[preproman]

I'm changing the disk in drive 20 to drive 22.  How do I get drive 20 to clear out all info from the disk I removed?  I stopped the array, unassigned it, started the array backup.  But the info is still there i.e.. 4tb and what's left on the disk.  How do I get it to be clear?

 

Below is the error i'm getting.  I need to clear the "not installed" on drive 20 so I can add the disk to drive 22.  If you know what I'm saying..

 

 

"You may not add new disks when there exists missing, wrong, or disabled disk(s)."

[garycase]

You can't arbitrarily remove a disk ... it will (as you've noticed) then be "missing" and UnRAID will use the other drives + parity to emulate that missing disk.  At that point, until you rebuild the missing disk with a new one, you can't add a new disk to the array.

 

Not sure why you want to move the drive to a different slot; but one way to do this is just do a "New Config" and assign the drives as you want them.  But be CERTAIN the array is good before you do that, as you'll lose the fault-tolerance until you do a new parity sync.

 

[preproman]

You can't arbitrarily remove a disk ... it will (as you've noticed) then be "missing" and UnRAID will use the other drives + parity to emulate that missing disk.  At that point, until you rebuild the missing disk with a new one, you can't add a new disk to the array.

 

Not sure why you want to move the drive to a different slot; but one way to do this is just do a "New Config" and assign the drives as you want them.  But be CERTAIN the array is good before you do that, as you'll lose the fault-tolerance until you do a new parity sync.

 

Got it.  Thanks that's what I needed..