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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago (12 children)

How much data do you have, and are the drives identical? Usually I do in-place conversions by taking some drives offline, creating a degraded raid on them, migrating the data, then wiping the remaining drives and bringing them online in the new raid.

Works for zfs pools too, but you can't create a pool with missing drives, you have to create a temporary block device then mark it offline, then replace it with the real drive once it's free.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Heh wow its been awhile since I checked my storage. Lol I forgot I added a bunch last year. Its actually at 116TB now with 13 free.

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Wow! I thought my NAS was loaded, but good lord. What are you storing?

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

Those are rookie numbers.

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