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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...
Time to get my Linux-fu back in shape :-)
What do you recommend?
Use this as a guide. I don't do that, exactly, but somebody with some Linux background can probably read between the lines: How-to-do-incremental-vertical-expansion-in-FlexRAID-mode.
Step 1 is clone the smaller drive to the larger. Then, with the larger one installed, create a partition in the unused space and a second 1-drive RAID1 in that partition. Then, expand BTRFS to include the new RAID volume.
I've seen postings of people just unmounting the file system, deleting the partition, re-creating a larger one starting with the same partition as the older, and then re-mounting the FS. But with ReadyNAS having a single drive as a 1-drive RAID1, not just a standard volume, I don't think that would work. But since you'll still have the original drive to start over, you can try it.
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