May 28, 20206 yr I tried following instructions on shrinking my array. I wanted to take out a hard drive. Tried following the wiki's "Remove Drives then Rebuild Parity" https://wiki.unraid.net/Shrink_array I moved all the data off the drive - that is disk 2 - see attached picture. I checked it was empty first. Stopped the array, went to Tools -> New Config -> checked off everything in Preserved Current Assignments - see attached pic Check Yes I want this to be Done (disk 2 was then physically taken out of the server) then went back to Main --> Array Devices - but Disk 2 can't be removed? see attached pic I figure it's something simple, but I don't want to mess up. Thanks.
May 28, 20206 yr After doing the New Config and returning to the Main tab to unassign disk 2 did you then start the array to commit the change and start rebuilding parity? Simply removing the disk is not sufficient as Unraid would just treat this as a missing/failed disk scenario.
May 28, 20206 yr Author thanks so much. looks like parity is rebuilding now. from the wiki steps 8 and 9 confused me - your clarification on step 8 to go to the main tab to restart the array AND not checking valid parity helped. I didn't know to go to the main tab!!
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