May 6, 201610 yr I had a bad electrical surge that knocked four 4TB drives offline in a 7-drive array (5 data, plus 2 parity). As luck would have it the 2 parity drives are fine along with 1 data drive. I lost 4 data drives. I was able to clone the 4 dead drives to new drives with a PC-3000. The clones mount and the filesystems are intact. But the only spare drives I had on hand were 6TB. So they are 4TB drives cloned to 6TB physical drives, obviously retaining their 4TB partition table. (Before you ask, this was significantly faster than doing a restore from backup for a variety of reasons.) I am ready to reinit the array with the clones, but what will unRAID do with a 4TB unRAID-proper partition that is on a 6TB disk, particularly since the two parity disks are only 4TB.
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