dfarrall Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Hi, I currently have a 4 drive array in unraid, I'm looking to replace one of the drives with a much larger one. The array doesn't have a parity device currently. The drive i want to remove has nothing stored on it, however if i pull it and try and rebuild the config will I lose all my drive mappings and data? I could potentially try and mount another drive through a USB bay and build a parity first but want to avoid this if possible. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Without a parity drive you can just stop and change anything. Nothing will be lost. You really should get parity going though. And you should have backups of anything important even if you have parity. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Although you’re not using parity, you can’t replace one data disk with another, you have to go to tools and do a new config, then just re-assign all disks you want to use now. Quote Link to comment
dfarrall Posted January 16, 2016 Author Share Posted January 16, 2016 New config doesn't lose data then? I can just remap my array? Don't worry nothing at all important on this server.. Just one i toy around with! Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 New config doesn't lose data then? I can just remap my array? Correct. As long as the drives were previously used by unRAID then after a New Config they can be assigned again and the data remains intact. Quote Link to comment
dfarrall Posted January 16, 2016 Author Share Posted January 16, 2016 Perfect, many thanks. Knew it was going to be easy just couldn't see it for looking! Update: For anyone else doing this in the future, went ahead no problems. Didn't even lose any of my shares or drive mappings in dockers/VM's so was as easy as could be! Gotta love unraid. Quote Link to comment
eontech Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 Thanks for the last post @dfarrall It helped me! Quote Link to comment
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