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Factory default - data on 3TB drives cannot add 2TB drives
I had some issues (I think Crashplan updates filled up my root mount causing it to no longer boot) that drove me to factory default. I have updated to OS 6.7.1 while I was at it. In the process I created the XRaid data volume on a 3TB drive just for testing. I then added the remaining drives and began setting up my shares and getting Crashplan setup again. The volume was resyncing and I thought nothing of it until today when it finished. It only accepted the 3TB drives and I am not seeing a way to add the 3 X 2TB drives to that volume. Is there a way to do that? Can I create a new volume with the 3 X 2TB drives, Copy the data from the 3 X 3TB drive volume to the new volume, delete the current data volume and then add the 3 X 3TB drives back to the new volume? Or should I just start over again (really the last option in my book)?
I ended up backing up the data to an external drive and then deleting all volumes. I removed the 3 X 3TB drives and then created a new "data" volume on the 3 X 2TB drives. Once that was created I added the 3 X 3TB drives back in and the volume expanded to include them.
Thanks for your help.
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u can change to flexi raid and create 3 x 2tb drives as new volume
the 3x 3tb first volume will stay meaning u have 2 volumes
no point moving data from first volume to 2nd volume
I've never done it. but is there something preventing him from destroying the single-drive volume once he has copied the data to the other volume? The GUI certianly makes it look like it should work. Then, 2 TB of the 3TB drive could be added to the 3x2TB volume either manually or by switching to XRAID once there is but one volume..
That is what I would like to accomplish. I had already started restoring data from a backup and did not want to have to start that over if I could avoid it.
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