February 22, 201610 yr I'm still running 5.0.6 on my primary server and instead of upgrading it to v6, I opted to use my second unRAID license to setup a separate server running a clean install of 6.1.8. I have a couple of brand new drives in the second server formatted as XFS, but I have NOT setup a parity drive yet; I'll do that once I copy my files from my v5 server. Can I put one of my v5 data drives (ReiserFS) in my v6 server without it triggering a reformat? Will I be able to copy the data from the v5 drive to one of the v6 drives? I think I'll be able to do this, but I just want to be sure I'm not overlooking some small detail.
February 23, 201610 yr Community Expert Do you want to keep the v5 server with its disks, or do you intend to put its disks in the new server permanently?
February 23, 201610 yr Author I'm going to keep the v5 server with its disks until I complete the data transfer. The only disk that I plan to permanently move to the v6 server is my parity drive, which I'll do once I transfer all the data. I understand that I'll have to rebuild parity, but I'll have a copy of all of my data on my v5 server while it rebuilds on the v6 server.
February 23, 201610 yr Community Expert You can always set a new config with whatever disks you want and if they have a supported filesystem unRAID will use them as is.
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