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Recommended Approach for upgrading drive
I have to replace a drive with some early smartctl errors, looking for advice on how to best proceed. I am going to be upgrading the size and also moving volumes round between a couple of drives tha...
So I guess any suggestions anyone has for how I can shuffle these volumes to the new larger devices and pull out the smallest one with the errors
An offline approach would be to
- power down the NAS and remove the drive(s)
- clone the existing drive to the larger one
- expand the third partition to use all the space on the larger drive
- resize the file system.
- insert the larger drives, and power up the NAS.
Thanks. Yea I'm just doing it from NAS backup, it will take a longer time, but it was just more straightforward. Simply need to DESTROY the old volumes, reinsert the new drives, create two new Flex raid jbod volumes the same way I did before and then restore from backup nas... first volume is in the process of being restored right now.
I did run into one other problem though, due to the file system filling up unexpectedly when I destroyed those two volumes, due to iDrive software which is installed in /opt and it freaked out and filled up the / volume for some stupid reason... anyway, it seems like maybe the DESTROY command did not complete properly on one of those old volumes, such that I'm now unable to create a volume by that same name now...
Could use some help to try to manually figure out what config file might not be synchronized with the change so that it will work properly to create a new volume, I'll post another post about it after I restore a bunch of stuff so far first.
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