hi  have question id like to know how i do it

i have 3 2TB drives 1 is failing in read errors  and one is failing just the smart

i wanna install a 8TB WD Gold Drive...  on the one having read errors.. and id like the other 2 2TB drives to transfer there data to the 8TB drive.. 

but i dont see an option to transfer disks to a single

how do i go about do that?

12 minutes ago, comet424 said:

but i dont see an option to transfer disks to a single

There isn't one, but you can't do it manually, e.g. using rsync or midnight commander, but always copy from disk to disk, never share to disk or disk to share.

if i cant do it manually then how could i do it...... and i couldnt find a midnight commander as an app on the unraid..

and how can i copy disk to disk...

 

is there a way to set a share of say Disk 2 Disk 3 Disk 4  and move files to Disk 5(New disk)   or move to Shares 

oh and is there a way to set it that it cant write no more to the broken disks  only to the disks that are working fine in the array

right now  i have

Disk 1  6TB

Disk 2 2Tb

Disk 3 2Tb

Disk 4 2TB

Disk 5 12TB

Parity 12TB

so i wanna get like a 8 10 or 12TB gold drive and replace Disk 2-4  but also disable writting to those drives now till i get a new drive 

17 minutes ago, comet424 said:

and i couldnt find a midnight commander as an app on the unraid..

mc on the console

17 minutes ago, comet424 said:

and how can i copy disk to disk...

e.g. from /mnt/disk1 to /mnt/disk2

 

17 minutes ago, comet424 said:

oh and is there a way to set it that it cant write no more to the broken disks  only to the disks that are working fine in the array

Go the the shares you use (or global share settings) and include only the good disks, but obviously having a known one or more bad disks on the array isn't good.

 

 

 

 

i typed mc  in the apps on unraid it didnt find a midnight commander

as for the /mnt/disk1 to /mnt/disk2    how i type that in windows?

 

and i probably stop using unraid till i get a new drive  as read errors i dont like

 

mc on the console, that means the terminal window, either using a keyboard/monitor on the server or opening the terminal in the GUI, right upper side, but looks like it might be a little complicated for you, probably best to enable disk shares on Settings -> Global Share Settings, then use your Windows desktop to copy/move data from disk to disk, if you're using Windows 8 or later it will use the Samba Server Side Copy feature, i.e., copy is made directly disk to disk avoiding the network round-trip.

ah ok  ill give that a try... i just never really used linux or unix  freebsd etc.. so i new to typing..  i been a windows user 30 yrs windows 3.1  so i never really learned this other stuff.. i just got into freenas unraid and pfsense all this year..  so i just learning as i go.. as i was using windows home server 2003 and 2011 but since they not supported no more i just been trying new stuff.. ill try that what you mentioned when i get another hard drive this week