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resinch a dieing disk or add new disk & resinch?
Apologies again. I posted the same message in the "Test" board, and got complete unnoticed / unseen. As it is rather urgent, I am re-posting it here, where I hope it will be seen. I could not find a b...
The data is of course spread across all the disks in the volume. If you have no backup, there is some risk to it.
The "lack of space" error doesn't seem obviously related to the failure on disk 1, and of course if you have 38% free space, you shouldn't be getting that error.
If disk 1 is indeed damaged, then it would be best to avoid a resync with it installed.
You could remove disk 1 and boot up - that would eliminate a resync. Then perhaps back up the critical data at least and insert the new disk. There is still some risk of data loss.
The "lack of space" error doesn't seem obviously related to the failure on disk 1, and of course if you have 38% free space, you shouldn't be getting that error.
If disk 1 is indeed damaged, then it would be best to avoid a resync with it installed.
You could remove disk 1 and boot up - that would eliminate a resync. Then perhaps back up the critical data at least and insert the new disk. There is still some risk of data loss.
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