February 23, 20179 yr I tried getting UnRAID setup over a year ago, and got to the point of having some media in some shares and then trying to get Plex to work, which I couldn't, and gave up. Now I'm trying again, and reinstalled UnRaid (since I couldn't remember my login) and am setup, but 2 of my old disks still show up with the old media and Plex stuff, and I want to wipe those and start fresh. How do I do that? Everything I've seen in the forum and online is about moving old drives that are using RFS to XFS, but mine are already XFS... Any help appreciated.
February 23, 20179 yr I tried getting UnRAID setup over a year ago, and got to the point of having some media in some shares and then trying to get Plex to work, which I couldn't, and gave up. Now I'm trying again, and reinstalled UnRaid (since I couldn't remember my login) and am setup, but 2 of my old disks still show up with the old media and Plex stuff, and I want to wipe those and start fresh. How do I do that? Everything I've seen in the forum and online is about moving old drives that are using RFS to XFS, but mine are already XFS... Any help appreciated.Just go to tools > new config inside the webgui. Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk
February 23, 20179 yr 2 minutes ago, danmartyn said: I want to wipe those and start fresh. How do I do that? Everything I've seen in the forum and online is about moving old drives that are using RFS to XFS, but mine are already XFS Quickest way is to change the desired file system on each disk's property page to something other than XFS, start the array and format the drives, stop the array, change the file type BACK to XFS, start the array and format them again.
February 23, 20179 yr 3 minutes ago, jonp said: Just go to tools > new config inside the webgui. Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk New config won't work since unRaid won't format the disks and erase all content which is how I read what the OP wants. Stop the array, change the format of those two disks (click the disk within the Main Tab) to something other than auto or XFS. Start the array, and unRaid will prompt you to format them. After formatting, stop the array change the format of those two disks to be XFS, and restart the array. After it formats it again, you have a complete clean slate on those two disks and no data whatsoever.
February 23, 20179 yr 2 minutes ago, jonathanm said: Quickest way is to change the desired file system on each disk's property page to something other than XFS, start the array and format the drives, stop the array, change the file type BACK to XFS, start the array and format them again. I don't think IPS is as good as SMF at reporting that a new post has been created when typing in a response. My bad! Edited February 23, 20179 yr by Squid
February 23, 20179 yr Just now, Squid said: I don't think IPS is as good as SMF at reporting that a new post has been created when typing in a response.
February 23, 20179 yr Author Ok, so I stopped and switched both to BRTFS, and reformatted, then stopped and switched to XFS, and now they are reformatted and empty (Yay!) Thanks for the help. I noticed though, that the new drive I added tonight and formatted the first time, is now using 22.6GB. When I look in it, there's a docker.img in it that is docker.img and libvirt.img. Are those normally added on by the system?
February 23, 20179 yr 1 hour ago, danmartyn said: When I look in it, there's a docker.img in it that is docker.img and libvirt.img. Are those normally added on by the system? Yep. As soon as you enable docker and VM's respectively it will create those two files in the location specified in the settings. They are mounted when the system boots as containers for the sausage making parts of those systems.
February 23, 20179 yr 1 hour ago, jonathanm said: containers for the sausage making parts of those systems. that's... an interesting turn of phrase...
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