I'm sure this has been posted before, but I'm not finding it.  Short version: Can someone give me the shell commands to format a reiserfs disk to xfs to unRAID recognizes it?

 

Longer version:

I created a new unRAID array on beta7 (reiserFS) and copied everything from my old unRAID over.  Given the write issues, I'm now wanting to start over with beta9.  Since Tom mentioned going with xfs as the default OS going forward, I figured I'd try that.

 

So I format my usb and put beta9 on it, without modifying my drives.  When I enable shares and try to create one, it fails saying mkdir cannot create /mnt/users/Music.  If I go into the webgui and change to reasierfs, the previous shares show up.  So I've convinced myself I need to clear the drives and format as xfs, but I don't see how in the webgui.

 

Thanks!

If you stop the array, and then click on a disk in the Maintab you can change the file system tpe of a disk.  If after you have done this you start the array, that drive will show as unformatted and the option to format unformatted drives will be enabled.  Using that will format to the selected format.

 

Note that doing this loses the existing contents oft hat disk, do make sure it has no data on it that you want to keep.

 

BTW:  this is a v6 issue, and there is now forum areas specific to v6.

Thanks for the (prompt) reply!  That seems to be working.  I looked for the format option before I started the array, but didn't think to look for it after the array was started. 

 

Is there a reason why does the array need to be started to format?

Is there a reason why does the array need to be started to format?

I believe that is just the way the GUI has been designed to work.    The may be some underlying technical reaon, but if so it is not obvious.

The array must be started to maintain parity.