No Parity Disk Removal

[thenonsense]

Hi all,

I was curious as to how to properly remove a disk from a build.  I have two spinning disks on my Unraid at home and I just want to migrate all info onto one disk so I can gut the second one.  Does anyone have a straightforward means?

[tdallen]

I use Midnight Commander (mc from the command line) for these tasks.  You want to use disk shares for this work - i.e. you are copying/moving from /mnt/disk2 to /mnt/disk1 .  After all your data is consolidated on disk1 (or whichever disk you are consolidating onto) then you will need to do a new config and redefine the array without the disk you are removing.

[thenonsense]

Thanks.  So midnight commander to shift the hard files over, then new config to rebuild the links to shares?

[Frank1940]

New config does not rebuild the links to the user share.  What  it does is remove that disk from the inventory (for the lack of a better word) of the array disks and forces the rebuild of parity.  (A user share is the top level name of any folder on any disk that is in the array.  Any file that is inside of any top-level folder is in that user share automatically.) 

[thenonsense]

Got it.  I'll move the files