[SOLVED] newbie help with shrinking array

[liynus]

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.

[itimpi]

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.

 

 

[liynus]

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!!