[Solved] Shrink Array with Dual Parity Drives?
Now that I've direct cabled my unRAID setup and removed the failing backplanes in my Norco enclosure, I have two older drives that are indeed failing. I have used the unBalance plugin to move the data off these drives so they're both empty. I'm now ready to shrink the array to remove those drives as I have enough free space for the interim.
My question is related to the 'Shrink array' procedure in the Wiki. I will be using the 'Remove drives then rebuild parity' method as described h
New question but related to this topic: I used xfs_repair on one of the 2 drives that were failing/failed. The other drive died completely and wasn't seen by any OS or even at the BIOS level.
I made an image of the 4TB XFS partition using ddrescue before attempting use of xfs_repair. As reported here, that image isn't mountable. While the xfs_repair run did appear to recover the data from the drive into the 'lost+found' folder, there are still a number of files/folders that are miss