I have read alot of posts and think I understand but just want to make sure.

I have 6 disks and a parity.

Parity - 1tb

disk 1 - 1tb

disk 2 - 1tb

disk 3 - 250gb

disk 4 - 250gb

disk 5 - 250gb

disk 6 - 500gb

 

I want to re-assign disk5 as a cache drive...it currently has nothing on it.

I stopped the array and unassigned disk5 from its slot and re-assigned it to the cache slot. After much delay  I pressed the restore button. It now is recalculating the parity which will take a while.

So I am now showing:

Parity - 1tb

disk 1 - 1tb

disk 2 - 1tb

disk 3 - 250gb

disk 4 - 250gb

disk 5 - Not installed

disk 6 - 500gb

Cache: 250gb

 

1) After the "restore" is done can I just unassign disk6 and put it in disk5's slot...do I have to hit the "restore" button again???

2) I should not loose any data this way since the "original disk5" (now the cache drive) had no data on it, right?

 

Sorry to trouble you with this but this is ALOT of data to mess with 

 

 

Thanks,

Scott

 

1.  There is no problem using the array as-is.  The gap for disk5 is not hurthing anything.

2.  You could have assigned the disk in dis6 to disk5 after you pressed restore and built parity.  (Remember for next time)

3.  You can stop the array and reassign disk6 to disk5.  No need to press restore.  unRAID should realize what you are trying to do.  See here.  Click on the 3rd link in the "Hail to the Chief" section called "Reorder / renumber disks."

Thanks good to know for next time and thanks for the link.

 

So I assume I understood most of this and will not loose data, right?