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Labdoc1
Apr 02, 2018Luminary
X-RAID aborting expansion
OS6.9.3 on Pro Pioneer. 5x4TB volume in X-RAID. I added a sixth volume and expansion began. Almost immediately, I stopped expansion by shutting down, removed the new disk and restarted. The volume r...
- Apr 02, 2018
Labdoc1 wrote:
Is there any way to go back to where I started, short of destroying the volume and starting from scratch?
The NAS is now set up to expect a six disk volume, and there is no way to change that (certainly not from the GUI, and I've never seen any methods here using the linux command line).
So I think your choices are to install the 6th disk, or destroy the volume and start over.
StephenB
Apr 02, 2018Guru - Experienced User
Labdoc1 wrote:
Is there any way to go back to where I started, short of destroying the volume and starting from scratch?
The NAS is now set up to expect a six disk volume, and there is no way to change that (certainly not from the GUI, and I've never seen any methods here using the linux command line).
So I think your choices are to install the 6th disk, or destroy the volume and start over.
- Labdoc1Apr 02, 2018Luminary
Thanks StephenB. That is what I thought.
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