January 1, 20206 yr Hey, Just built a new Gen8 Microserver, popped in 3x10TB disks and noticed it formatted them in BTRFS. Is this new default or did something strange happen? Thanks.
January 1, 20206 yr Community Expert Default filesystem for data disks is XFS, and it can be changed on: Settings -> Disk settings -> Default file system
January 2, 20206 yr 11 hours ago, riff.79 said: Yup - But I have already started to copy my data. Not relevant. Parity can stay valid during a format without an issue. All you needed to do was click on the empty disk and change the desired file system type, format it, and copy the data from the already occupied disk over to the freshly formatted one, then after that one is empty, change the file system on that one. Formatting only takes a couple minutes and doesn't effect parity. If both disks already have data, you would need to copy the data from one to the other, until you have one empty disk. There are several methods to do that.
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