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How to force expansion in RAID-X after disk addition?
I have an RN31400 using X-RAID and the latest firmware (6.9.1).
I had 4 disks, 8T8, 8Tb, 6Tb & 6Tb.
I replaced the third disk with an 8Tb one, meaning I now have 8Tb, 8TB, 8Tb & 6Tb. All are WD disks on the compatibility list and are recognized fine.
Using the RAID-X calculator I should have more than the 14Tb of available space, shouldn't I? It didn't increase when I swapped the 3rd disk out. It is set to RAID-X and reports RAID-5. No snapshots.
Apart from factory reseting it, is there a way to force expansion? I've rebooted it, balanced it and rebooted again several times to no avail.
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Sorry, 15.5Tb, not 14Tb of available space.
Did you start with all 6TB's? It sounds like it's only using 6TB on all of your drives. Is XRAID enabled? That would be the case for Flex-RAID.
Do ou have SSH enabled and can you go in and execute lsblk? That will show you what partitions on what drives are included in your volumes. Post results here if you need help interpreting them.
No, the two 8’s and the two 6’s. They weren’t XRAID, so converted to that first. That’s obviously where the problem occurred. Th question is, apart from a fresh reset again, can I force it to do XRAID properly?
I think I can SSH in, but what will that show me? Can I then use a command to fix it?
Thanks.
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