(Snapraid) Migrating 5 drives to 4 drives - Full sync gives "you must have at least 3 content files"

Had a previous snapraid array with 5 drives. 3 were data + content and 2 were parity. I've since migrated to 4 larger drives. 2 being data + content and 2 for parity. I've deleted all snapraid.parity, snapraid.2-parity as well as all snpraid.content files.

When I try to do a full sync with the new drives, I get the above error about needing 3 content files. /etc/snapraid.conf lists the new drive configuration(2 data/content + 2 parity) and no 3rd content file. What gives? Is OMV hanging onto the previous snapraid config somewhere? Anyone run into this?

It's looking more and more like I'll have to add content files to the parity disks as you suggest.

Just seems strange that I blew away all previous snapraid config, including the content and parity files, and only have the new /etc/snapraid.conf file that defines the new 4 drive array. Why and how is snapraid still pulling configuration from the previous 5 drive array. Thanks for replying.

That sounds like what may be happening then. Although I searched the /etc/openmediavault/config.xml file for the snapraid config. It looked to mirror the 4 drive config. Assuming that config.xml file is the OMV dB.

As far as removing the old array, I used the plugin for some portions of the removal process. Then manually deleted the content and parity files on the FS via CLI before using the plugin to create the new configuration.

Well, I guess it may be that snapraid requires a minimum of 3 content files. Didn't know that and wasn't able to find it in the snapraid docs. I had a response over at the snapraid subreddit and was told so. So, I'll trust the advice, add a content file to one of the parity disks and be done with it. Thanks again for your help.

I thought I had read about it not being ideal to put content files on parity disks because of the potential for both to eat up space. Especially with large amounts of small files. Oh well, my array is off on a full sync now. 24 hours remaining...