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Kardano
Luminary
Jul 15, 2017
Solved

Problem with expanding X-RAID

On RN314 was 4x 3TB WD RED. We changed them for 4x 6TB WD RED. After changing last HDD (We changed in this order: position 4,3,2,1) and complete raid expand we get this:   It seems as 4th disk ...
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  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Jul 15, 2017

    md126 is not a spare, it is a new raid group that was created for the vertical expansion.

     

    One option is to remove the disk that didn't expand, unformat it (for instance with windows) and then hot-insert it.

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jul 15, 2017

md126 is not a spare, it is a new raid group that was created for the vertical expansion.

 

One option is to remove the disk that didn't expand, unformat it (for instance with windows) and then hot-insert it.

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Kardano
Luminary
Jul 18, 2017

Thanks for help. Worked like a charm.

 

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