April 15, 20179 yr Hello everyone, this are my drives now: I just installed a second 6 TB parity drive. All fine. At the next step i want to remove the 2 x 4 TB drives and put in another 6 TB drive. How can it be done? You can easily see that my used data is not so much at the moiment. I really don't want to leave this 2 drives into the system. I need them for another build. Any suggestions?
April 15, 20179 yr Couple of ways to accomplish what you want (Rough directions - not click by click). Take screen shots before so you know what the current assignments are Copy the contents from disk4 to disk1 (use Krusader docker app -> make sure you copy from /mnt/disk4 to /mnt/disk1) Tools -> New Config Remove disk 4 from the array, and let parity rebuild Upgrade disk 1 to the 6tb and let unRaid rebuild disk1 onto the 6tb or Upgrade disk1 to the 6tb and let unRaid rebuild onto it. Copy disk4 to disk1 (Krusader) Tools -> new config Remove disk 4 Let parity rebuild itself. or Mount the 6tb as an unassigned device (UD plugin). Format it as xfs Copy both 4tb's onto it (Krusader) Tools -> New Config Set disk 1 to be the 6tb, remove disk 4 Start the array and let parity rebuild itself. Edited April 15, 20179 yr by Squid
April 15, 20179 yr Community Expert 23 minutes ago, Squid said: Mount the 6tb as an unassigned device (UD plugin). Format it as xfs Copy both 4tb's onto it (Krusader) Tools -> New Config Set disk 1 to be the 6tb, remove disk 4 Start the array and let parity rebuild itself. This won't work, a disk formatted (or to be more accurate, partitioned) by the UD plugin won't be recognized as a valid partition by unRAID and it will be unmountable.
April 15, 20179 yr Just now, johnnie.black said: This won't work, a disk formatted (or to be more accurate, partitioned) by the UD plugin won't be recognized as a valid partition by unRAID and it will be unmountable. Thx... I wasn't sure about that one
April 15, 20179 yr 5 hours ago, johnnie.black said: This won't work, a disk formatted (or to be more accurate, partitioned) by the UD plugin won't be recognized as a valid partition by unRAID and it will be unmountable. However... If you are not currently using a cache drive, you can certainly partition and format a drive using the cache slot and move it to the array with a new config command later. That way you can even use the cache:prefer settings to move a specific share to the drive you wish to migrate. Just be sure to reset to cache:yes or cache:no on any shares changed to cache:prefer before starting the array with a new config and that prepopulated drive.
April 15, 20179 yr 7 hours ago, Fischje said: Hello everyone, this are my drives now: I just installed a second 6 TB parity drive. All fine. At the next step i want to remove the 2 x 4 TB drives and put in another 6 TB drive. How can it be done? You can easily see that my used data is not so much at the moiment. I really don't want to leave this 2 drives into the system. I need them for another build. Any suggestions? I'd suggest rebuild one of your 4T with the 6T, and leave the other 4T in there for growth. That would leave you with one 4T in hand to do something else with. Less risk and longer time till you need to add space. Just my $.02.
April 26, 20179 yr Author Upgrade disk1 to the 6tb and let unRaid rebuild onto it. Copy disk4 to disk1 (Krusader) Tools -> new config Remove disk 4 Let parity rebuild itself. done that.worked all fine.*close
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