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Upgrading the scratch disk
Hi everybody, On my trustful Pro 6, I’m running a 5-disk RAID6 plus a a scratch disk. The rationale is to put stuff that doesn’t require redundancy like OneDrive, Dropbox, Gdrive folders, tmp fold...
Equinox1 wrote:
Question to the community: how can I upgrade the HD without having to reconfigure the volume with all the apps, timemachine hacks, etc....?
Well, you can't if you are using the normal web ui.
It would be possible to do this with ssh with sufficient effort - cloning the existing drive, creating a new partition, creating a new raid group, and adding that the the cloned volume. But it would be pretty difficult, especially if you aren't skilled with linux tools.
Time to get my Linux-fu back in shape :-)
What do you recommend?
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