June 25, 201610 yr Hi guys, I've been an OMV user for several years but recently discovered unraid via watching LinusTechTips. I'm interested in switching over but i'm not sure how such a process would work. I have 3x 4TB drives with 1/3 running as a snapraid parity drive and all are formatted in EXT4. Any tips or tutorials on how i can do this move without having to reformat all my drives? I don't have the space to transfer them separately.
June 25, 201610 yr Hi guys, I've been an OMV user for several years but recently discovered unraid via watching LinusTechTips. I'm interested in switching over but i'm not sure how such a process would work. I have 3x 4TB drives with 1/3 running as a snapraid parity drive and all are formatted in EXT4. Any tips or tutorials on how i can do this move without having to reformat all my drives? I don't have the space to transfer them separately. Without investing in another drive, the procedure would be to use your current snapraid parity drive as a data drive (format it with XFS in unRaid), then use the unassigned devices plugin to mount one of your current data drives, then copy the files over. After the copy, assign the now empty drive as a data drive, format as XFS, and mount your next ext4 drive via unassigned devices Keep repeating. You'll be left with an empty 4tb ext4 drive which you will then assign as your parity drive
June 25, 201610 yr Author Hi guys, I've been an OMV user for several years but recently discovered unraid via watching LinusTechTips. I'm interested in switching over but i'm not sure how such a process would work. I have 3x 4TB drives with 1/3 running as a snapraid parity drive and all are formatted in EXT4. Any tips or tutorials on how i can do this move without having to reformat all my drives? I don't have the space to transfer them separately. Without investing in another drive, the procedure would be to use your current snapraid parity drive as a data drive (format it with XFS in unRaid), then use the unassigned devices plugin to mount one of your current data drives, then copy the files over. After the copy, assign the now empty drive as a data drive, format as XFS, and mount your next ext4 drive via unassigned devices Keep repeating. You'll be left with an empty 4tb ext4 drive which you will then assign as your parity drive thank you for the detailed reply. That seems easy enough to do. Is the unassigned device plugin easy to install?
June 25, 201610 yr Hi guys, I've been an OMV user for several years but recently discovered unraid via watching LinusTechTips. I'm interested in switching over but i'm not sure how such a process would work. I have 3x 4TB drives with 1/3 running as a snapraid parity drive and all are formatted in EXT4. Any tips or tutorials on how i can do this move without having to reformat all my drives? I don't have the space to transfer them separately. Without investing in another drive, the procedure would be to use your current snapraid parity drive as a data drive (format it with XFS in unRaid), then use the unassigned devices plugin to mount one of your current data drives, then copy the files over. After the copy, assign the now empty drive as a data drive, format as XFS, and mount your next ext4 drive via unassigned devices Keep repeating. You'll be left with an empty 4tb ext4 drive which you will then assign as your parity drive thank you for the detailed reply. That seems easy enough to do. Is the unassigned device plugin easy to install? Install CA (link in sig) then from within the apps tab go to plugins and find unassigned devices and hit install
June 25, 201610 yr Download the "plg" for Community Applications here and save it on your flash drive. Then once boot up, go to unRAID GUI through the web browser => Plugins => install plugins then it should be self-explanatory from that point on. Then go to the Apps tab and search for Unassigned Device (or any other plugin / docker).
June 25, 201610 yr Download the "plg" for Community Applications here and save it on your flash drive. Then once boot up, go to unRAID GUI through the web browser => Plugins => install plugins then it should be self-explanatory from that point on. That's the hard way... To install this plugin, paste the following URL into the Plugins / Install PlugIn section: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Squidly271/community.applications/master/plugins/community.applications.plg After installation, a new tab called "Apps" will appear on your unRaid webGUI.
August 15, 20169 yr Author Hi guys, I've been an OMV user for several years but recently discovered unraid via watching LinusTechTips. I'm interested in switching over but i'm not sure how such a process would work. I have 3x 4TB drives with 1/3 running as a snapraid parity drive and all are formatted in EXT4. Any tips or tutorials on how i can do this move without having to reformat all my drives? I don't have the space to transfer them separately. Without investing in another drive, the procedure would be to use your current snapraid parity drive as a data drive (format it with XFS in unRaid), then use the unassigned devices plugin to mount one of your current data drives, then copy the files over. After the copy, assign the now empty drive as a data drive, format as XFS, and mount your next ext4 drive via unassigned devices Keep repeating. You'll be left with an empty 4tb ext4 drive which you will then assign as your parity drive Sorry for the necrobump. I successfully mounted my data drive via unassigned devices. Do you recommend a specific way of going about moving the data onto the array? I had two ways of going about it but i'm not sure which is optimal. #1: create user shares for my media groups, then move the data folder by folder from the ext4 drive into the correct usershares #2: move everything onto my 4tb disk share directly what do you recommend? or is there another way? Once i move everything over i'd like to add the ext4 drive to the array as well.
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