June 12, 20179 yr Hi Guys, Been out of the unraid game for a few years. Server originally setup in '08 Looking for a quick easy way to covert to XFS and rerun parity. Just want to confirm what to do as don't want to make a mistake. Is it simply STOP ARRAY > CHANGE FORMAT ON DRIVE AND RESTART TO CALCULATE PARITY? I want to upgrade the parity drive to a bigger drive so also not sure of correct procedure. TIA Kev
June 12, 20179 yr 7 minutes ago, kevincelentano said: STOP ARRAY > CHANGE FORMAT ON DRIVE AND RESTART TO CALCULATE PARITY? NO 7 minutes ago, kevincelentano said: Looking for a quick easy way to covert to XFS and rerun parity. Unfortunately, there is no quick way to do this. The only way of doing this is copying all of the files from the RFS drive to another drive and then formatting. Review the RFS to XFS sticky
June 12, 20179 yr Author Thanks for the quick reply buddy. I think you might have misunderstood. I apologise if not. I reread my originaly post which wasnt clear. I understand the concept of converting Data disks. In this instance I will be formatting some new disks as XFS and copying the data from the RFS disks onto them. Then I can format the old emtpy RFS disks to XFS. My question was how to covert the Parity drive from RFS to XFS. sorry for being unclear. TIA Kev
June 12, 20179 yr 5 minutes ago, kevincelentano said: Thanks for the quick reply buddy. I think you might have misunderstood. I apologise if not. I reread my originaly post which wasnt clear. I understand the concept of converting Data disks. In this instance I will be formatting some new disks as XFS and copying the data from the RFS disks onto them. Then I can format the old emtpy RFS disks to XFS. My question was how to covert the Parity drive from RFS to XFS. sorry for being unclear. TIA Kev The parity disk has no file system, and only ever reflects the contents of the data disks regardless of their filesystem. And to increase the parity drive to a larger one, simply replace it and unRaid will rebuild the contents. Edited June 12, 20179 yr by Squid
June 12, 20179 yr Author AHHHH!!! Roger that. It makes sense. Thanks mate. Ill proceed with the direction for the RFS to XFS process. Thanks again
June 13, 20179 yr You might consider enabling turbo write to speed up the copying operations with parity in place.
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