Need to convert a drive from Data to Parity

[christopherrutherford]

Just checking, but I'm thinking the process looks like this:

 

1. clear the drive by any means. (ssh --> mv * /other drive)
2. stop the array
3. remove the drive from the data pool and add drive to parity pool?

 

Thanks in advance!

[JorgeB]

31 minutes ago, christopherrutherford said:

remove the drive from the data pool and add drive to parity pool?

You'll need to do a new config before this step to be able to remove that disk, then resync parity.

[trurl]

You will have to go to Tools - New Config. The new parity disk will be completely overwritten by parity so it doesn't matter what is still on it.

[SSD]

5 hours ago, christopherrutherford said:

Just checking, but I'm thinking the process looks like this:

 

1. clear the drive by any means. (ssh --> mv * /other drive)
2. stop the array
3. remove the drive from the data pool and add drive to parity pool?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

If the data disk you want to become parity has valuable data on it, you need to move that data off first. Because when you build parity onto it, any data that was stored there is gone.

 

unRAID is not a pooled system. There are data disks, and there are parity disks (0, 1, or 2). And the data disks and parity disks together form the unRAID array.