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Labdoc1
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Apr 02, 2018
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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...
  • StephenB's avatar
    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.

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