rcmpayne Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 I have 3 disk which i would like to format from reiserfs to xfs. My question is, do I need to move the data off the drives to do this or is there a easy way? Idon't mind doing one at a time as I have enough space to move data around if needed. https://ibb.co/nPWf5hY Quote Link to comment
remotevisitor Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 11 minutes ago, rcmpayne said: My question is, do I need to move the data off the drives to do this or is there a easy way? Yes. A format will remove any existing files/directories on the drive. So you will need to copy the contents to somewhere else, reformat a drive and then copy the contents back onto the newly formatted drive. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 There's a pinned thread discussing exactly that, you can read it for some ideas: Quote Link to comment
rcmpayne Posted September 16, 2020 Author Share Posted September 16, 2020 2 hours ago, remotevisitor said: Yes. A format will remove any existing files/directories on the drive. So you will need to copy the contents to somewhere else Can "somewhere else" be another drive in the array? Example: 1. Use terminal to move data from Disk1 to Disk2 2. Format the drive1 to XFS 3. Add the drive back to the array? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 13 minutes ago, rcmpayne said: Can "somewhere else" be another drive in the array? Yes. That is what most do. Quote Link to comment
remotevisitor Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 Yes. the steps are more like ... 1. Move data from disk1 to disk2. 2. Put array into maintenance mode. 3. Format disk1 to XFS. 4 Start array. disk1 was never removed from the array so no need to add it back. Quote Link to comment
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