riff.79 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Default filesystem for data disks is XFS, and it can be changed on: Settings -> Disk settings -> Default file system Quote Link to comment
riff.79 Posted January 1, 2020 Author Share Posted January 1, 2020 Dang! Ill have to reformat the parity and copy data between disks. Quote Link to comment
BRiT Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Parity does not contain a filesystem. Quote Link to comment
riff.79 Posted January 2, 2020 Author Share Posted January 2, 2020 Yup - But I have already started to copy my data. Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment
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