July 31, 20205 yr Had Previous 6.8.0 with 1 12tb data drive as btrfs. Updated to 6.8.3, put in original drive and added 6 drives, formatted as btrfs. Original drive wasnt mountable, so unraid mounted and formatted it as xfs, and then the start button was usable. Clicked start array, and 1 drive was xfs and the other 6 new drives are btrfs. i've stopped array, tryed to reformat drive to btrfs, statrted array, And drive says unmountable, no file system. How do i change the original drive from xfs to btrfs ?? Edited July 31, 20205 yr by x88dually forgot to upload file
July 31, 20205 yr Community Expert Click on disk1 and make sure fs is set to auto or btrfs, if it's not that post the diags.
July 31, 20205 yr Author It was btrfs, in the screenshot, and thats what unraids spits out. How do i do the diags ? Edited July 31, 20205 yr by x88dually
July 31, 20205 yr Community Expert 12 minutes ago, x88dually said: It was btrfs It's not, it's set to xfs. Also, why are you formatting array disks with UD? That will make parity invalid.
July 31, 20205 yr Author This was a virgin install. what is ud ? whatever i'm doing, look at the screenshot, parity is valid. Edited July 31, 20205 yr by x88dually forgot things to say
July 31, 20205 yr Community Expert 5 minutes ago, x88dually said: what is ud ? Unassigned devices plugin. 5 minutes ago, x88dually said: parity is valid. No it's not, Unraid just has no way of knowing it's not, until you run a parity check, it will still say valid but there will be sync errors.
July 31, 20205 yr Author it did parity check with 1 drive as xfs, and the rest of the drives were btrfs. Already did parity check. Look at the screenshot Edited July 31, 20205 yr by x88dually
July 31, 20205 yr Community Expert But that was before, after formatting the disk with UD the next check will detect sync errors.
July 31, 20205 yr Author unraid will not let me reformat that drive as btrfs. Thats what the screenshots about. Unraid wont let me do it.
July 31, 20205 yr Community Expert Because you're not doing it right. Stop the array, click on disk3, set filesystem to auto, start array. You'll still need to run a parity check after.
July 31, 20205 yr Community Expert Auto will give the filesystem already on disk, if it's already formatted with one of the supported filesystems, or what's set on settings -> disk settings for any newly formatted disk.
July 31, 20205 yr Author In unraid 6.8.0, it was formatted as btrfs, couldnt upgrade for whatever reason, now, everytime in unraid 6.8.3 unraid makes it xfs. i load a drive into this 24 bay case, unraid makes that drive{s} UD. i dont have a choice. So i go from there, killing partition, formatting, mounting, then putting whichever drive into whichever disk # its supposed to be or where i want it to go. thats wrong ? Edited July 31, 20205 yr by x88dually
July 31, 20205 yr Community Expert Just now, x88dually said: thats wrong ? Yes, all array disks should be formatted inside the array, or parity won't be updated and will become out of sync.
July 31, 20205 yr Author since i'm doing this wrong. Would you please tell me exactly {in detail} how to do this the right way ?
July 31, 20205 yr Community Expert 1 minute ago, x88dually said: Would you please tell me exactly {in detail} how to do this the right way ? Stop array, click on the that disk and change the filesystem to the new one, start array and format.
July 31, 20205 yr Author i put a brand new drive into case, unraid sees that drive and puts it into UD. I preclear the drive. then format it, then mount it, then put it into a disk position.
July 31, 20205 yr Community Expert That's not how you do it, you can or not preclear the drive, don't format, add to array, if the drive is not precleared it will be cleared by Unraid and then you can format it, if it precleared you'll just need to format it.
July 31, 20205 yr Author so i mount the drive, then i click disk # an make file system what i want ? and unraid does the rest ? its doin parity check right now. Should i start all over now ? Edited July 31, 20205 yr by x88dually
July 31, 20205 yr Community Expert 1 minute ago, x88dually said: so i mount the drive, then i click disk # an make file system what i want ? If it's a new disk it will use the default filesystem set on Settings -> Disk Settings, if you have an array disk and want to change it to a different filesystem then you click on it and change it there, then format at next array start.
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