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Hit 8Tb limit - how to expand to 18T physical?
Hi all, hoping for suggestions here for an easy(ish) fix... first let me stress that I've had experience in UNIX and I'm not stupid, but my training is out of date and to be honest I find all the tech...
If you install one of your old 2TB drive and three 3TB drives and then do a factory reset, you'll be able to expand the the full 15 TB volume size. Just replace the 2 TB, then fill up remaining slots with your 3 TB drives. Do the expansion with the ultra powered on, waiting for each new drive to complete resync (confirming that you get the expected size increase) before proceeding to the next. It will take 8-10 hours per disk.
I'm not a mac user, so I can't address the preserving permissions/ownership question. Depending on the details of how you do the backup, you might also lose modification dates for folders (or even files). You shouldn't lose any data though. How many users are we talking about?
I'm not a mac user, so I can't address the preserving permissions/ownership question. Depending on the details of how you do the backup, you might also lose modification dates for folders (or even files). You shouldn't lose any data though. How many users are we talking about?
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