So I will be installing a new drive and converting my other drives from RFS to XFS.  I want to make sure I understand how to do this.  I first plan on running 2 or 3 preclears on the new drive and if everything looks good I will format the drive in XFS.  I will replace a data drive with this one.  I will let it rebuild the drive.  I will then run a parity check.  Once that all comes back fine.  I will reformat the old drive in XFS and start the process over again.

 

Question….

Is there anything wrong with letting the array rebuild the data on each drive instead of just coping it over?  I know it will take longer but I feel better doing it this way.

If I want to move everything from drive to 2 to drive 4 how would I do that?  For example move “TV Shows” from Drive 2 to 4.  I have done it before with telent but  I always forget.

 

Thanks

1 minute ago, squirrellydw said:

So I will be installing a new drive and converting my other drives from RFS to XFS.  I want to make sure I understand how to do this.  I first plan on running 2 or 3 preclears on the new drive and if everything looks good I will format the drive in XFS.  I will replace a data drive with this one.  I will let it rebuild the drive.  I will then run a parity check.  Once that all comes back fine.  I will reformat the old drive in XFS and start the process over again.

 

Question….

Is there anything wrong with letting the array rebuild the data on each drive instead of just coping it over?  I know it will take longer but I feel better doing it this way.

Yes.  It won't work.  Doesn't matter how the disk is formatted, when you rebuild onto it, it will rebuild the file system of the original drive.  IE: ReiserFS

 

There is no way around copying the files from one disk to another.

 

You should read the RFS to XFS conversion sticky detailing the steps you need to follow.

21 minutes ago, squirrellydw said:

If I want to move everything from drive to 2 to drive 4 how would I do that?  For example move “TV Shows” from Drive 2 to 4.  I have done it before with telent but always forget.

I used the unbalance plugin

I choose the smallest drive I had with the least amount of data and spread that out to my other drives. Once I was sure it was empty. I then turned off my array and set that drive as XFS and reformatted it. Once it was done formatting I took that drive out and replaced it with a larger drive. System automatically formatted that drive to xfs.  That larger xfs drive I can move other data onto it with unbalance and start the drive swap again with another drive.

Edited March 11, 20179 yr by Harro

34 minutes ago, Squid said:

Yes.  It won't work.  Doesn't matter how the disk is formatted, when you rebuild onto it, it will rebuild the file system of the original drive.  IE: ReiserFS

 

There is no way around copying the files from one disk to another.

 

You should read the RFS to XFS conversion sticky detailing the steps you need to follow.

 

Thanks, glad I asked.  I did look at the sticky, I was just trying to avoid copying it that way.

 

 

15 minutes ago, Harro said:

I used the unbalance plugin

I choose the smallest drive I had with the least amount of data and spread that out to my other drives. Once I was sure it was empty. I then turned off my array and set that drive as XFS and reformatted it. Once it was done formatting I took that drive out and replaced it with a larger drive. System automatically formatted that drive to xfs.  That larger xfs drive I can move other data onto it with unbalance and start the drive swap again with another drive.

 

I have used this before and forgot about it, thanks

Edited March 11, 20179 yr by squirrellydw

OK, so if I want to move TV Shows from one drive to another using telnet, this should work right?  Disk 4 also has a folder called "TV Shows" so it should just copy everything in to that correct?  Any permission issues with this command?

 

cp -rf /mnt/disk5/"TV Shows" /mnt/disk4/