removing drive question when using New Config

[mgworek]

Removing some older smaller drives. 

 

I am doing one at a time, I tried following the The "Clear Drive Then Remove Drive" Method but when i started the array it told me none of my drives were mountable.

 

So added the drive back and everything fine. going to try the The "Remove Drives Then Rebuild Parity" Method now.

 

After the Retain current configuration step and you check all assignments, when you remove the drive do you leave it blank or do you reassign a current drive to the slow.

 

Example. You have 15 disks. You are removing disk2. Do you unassigned disk 2 and leave it empty when starting the array or do you move disk 15 into its slot?

 

Thanks

[JorgeB]

1 minute ago, mgworek said:

I am doing one at a time, I tried following the The "Clear Drive Then Remove Drive" Method but when i started the array it told me none of my drives were mountable.

 

There's a bug on v6.4rc7, all disks will be unmountable at first array start after a new config, next start they will mount normally.

 

2 minutes ago, mgworek said:

Example. You have 15 disks. You are removing disk2. Do you unassigned disk 2 and leave it empty when starting the array or do you move disk 15 into its slot?

 

Whichever you prefer, parity will ne to be re-synced either way.

[mgworek]

5 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

 

There's a bug on v6.4rc7, all disks will be unmountable at first array start after a new config, next start they will mount normally.

 

 

Whichever you prefer, parity will ne to be re-synced either way.

 

DOH! I didn't know about the bug. Dang. the drive I cleared yesterday is almost done with the new clear to add it back to the array. maybe I will retry this method then.

 

Thanks for letting me know about the assignments. I wasn't sure if it was ok to have a slot empty between disks or not.