[SOLVED] New drive gets formatted with FS from old drive?

[starcat]

Hi guys, 

 

I am still running version 6.2.0-rc3 and have the following issue now while swapping and/or adding drives:

 

All old drives are formatted with reiserFS. 

In the Disk Settings I have setup XFS as the preferred default FS ot be used. 

 

However, each time I swap a drive with a new one, the new one gets formatted with ReiserFS unless I put in the drive in a slot that was never used before. I reconsructed several times the array by removing super.dat, but no change.

 

Any hints are greatly appreciated. 

 

[itimpi]

Click on the drive on the Main tab and explicitly set the format to be XFS.  

[JorgeB]

Every rebuilt disk will have the same filesystem as the disk it's replacing, it can only be like that, the default fs is for added drives.

[starcat]

If I take out an old drive by manually copying files out and rebuilding array with new super.dat, it still uses old FS for the new drive in that same slot despite default FS being set to XFS for new drives!!

 

Seems that the meaning is for new "slots" and not new "drives"!

Edited April 24, 2020 by starcat

[starcat]

44 minutes ago, itimpi said:

Click on the drive on the Main tab and explicitly set the format to be XFS.  

Will try this, thanks!! 

[JorgeB]

3 minutes ago, starcat said:

it still uses old FS for the new drive in that same slot despite default FS being set to XFS for new drives!!

That will happen if the fs for that device is set to the original filesystem, set them to auto by clicking on the device on the main page.

[starcat]

Oh, got it. Thanks very much - this took me a lo of time and trial... Thanks!

[starcat]

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