Ok, I've read a bunch of the posts - but while a few say - no just copy off and re-do....I need someone to be in my face saying - *No Stoopid! just start again*:
Scenario:
HP N54L, FreeNAS 9.3(sorry - not 9.2), 8GB Ram, originally 5x 2TB HDDs in RAID5 - total data held = 7TB.
Just managed to pry open the wallet to purchase 4x 6TB WD Red's - upgraded all slowly in the day by day, then borrowed an old drive for the 5th to be installed - thus giving me 24TB in RAID5.
The 5th drive now fails during restripe......I don't have enough $$$ to purchase a *new* 6TB as ive only just bought 4x.
So with around 7TB of data on a failed 5x Stripe of RAID5;
Can I shrink the ZFS to only encompass the remaining 4x 6TB of drives, while there is only 7TB of data stored?
I really don't wanna have to somehow mount 5x drives in another system, boot to a fresh FreeNAS and network transfer over the 7tb to a clean RAID5 setup on 4x 6TB's - really dont wanna.........help me?
Many thanks for reading my rant. ;)
Scenario:
HP N54L, FreeNAS 9.3(sorry - not 9.2), 8GB Ram, originally 5x 2TB HDDs in RAID5 - total data held = 7TB.
Just managed to pry open the wallet to purchase 4x 6TB WD Red's - upgraded all slowly in the day by day, then borrowed an old drive for the 5th to be installed - thus giving me 24TB in RAID5.
The 5th drive now fails during restripe......I don't have enough $$$ to purchase a *new* 6TB as ive only just bought 4x.
So with around 7TB of data on a failed 5x Stripe of RAID5;
Can I shrink the ZFS to only encompass the remaining 4x 6TB of drives, while there is only 7TB of data stored?
I really don't wanna have to somehow mount 5x drives in another system, boot to a fresh FreeNAS and network transfer over the 7tb to a clean RAID5 setup on 4x 6TB's - really dont wanna.........help me?
Many thanks for reading my rant. ;)
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