July 25, 20196 yr Upgrading a 2TB to 8TB drive and In the process I figure I will take it to XFS. I have already take the steps to exclude the drive from my shares and I moved all the data off the drive. The only thing on the 2TB drive at this time is 2 empty share folders. Looking through the documents, I am trying to understand the next steps. Is it as simple as stopping the array with the old drive in place and changing the file system to xfs? Then Start array? Or, do I just place the 8TB drive and format it to XFS and re-build parity and go?
July 25, 20196 yr Community Expert 9 minutes ago, smakovits said: Is it as simple as stopping the array with the old drive in place and changing the file system to xfs? Then Start array? Yes, then format after array start.
July 25, 20196 yr That should work. But you will require a parity rebuild. Edited July 25, 20196 yr by Gragorg
July 25, 20196 yr Author 56 minutes ago, johnnie.black said: Yes, then format after array start. do I need to do it with the old disk first or just go straight to the new disk?
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