Setting up a second server with previously used drives.

[ashman70]

I am setting up a second UnRaid server, using 2TB drives that were previously used in my other UnRaid server, how do I format them? They are showing up with only 1.24TB available, I want to wipe them?

 

Thanks

 

AM

[garycase]

To force a reformat of a drive ...

 

Stop the array.  Click on the drive in the Main tab;  Change the "file system type"  (i.e. if it's now XFS, select Reiserfs);  then Start the array and check the box to format all unformatted drives.    Wait a few minutes for that to finish.  If you had to change the file system to something you didn't really want, just repeat the process -- i.e. this time you could select XFS -- and then everything will be cleared.

 

Note you can change as many drives as you want before you Start the array and do the formatting -- so you could clear all of the drives at once.