henfri Intermediate

Hello,

yes, that is what popped into my mind when lying in bed yesterday... Sorry.
So, I boot to systemrescuecd, then do a fsck, then a resize2fs.
Then, I do a mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --array-size 31457216 to shrink the array.
Then, with mdadm --grow -n 2…

Hello,

I had my root-filesystem as raid5. Now I want to switch to raid1.
I have (had to) remove one drive already:
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Is it now possible to change from this degraded raid5 to a raid1?
I tried this:
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But when I execute the suggested…

Hello,

yes, that seems to work.
It is certainly preferable to have them in the OMV config. But how does that work?

Regards,
Hendrik

http://blog.storagecraft.com/5-reasons-raid-not-backup/amp/

I would contact the btrfs mailing list.

Restore your backup and do not use raid5 with btrfs

What a coincidence:
RE: Recovering from a power surge

(Quote from viewmo)

no, you need a Backup.
Surge protection can help, but there is no guarantee.

(Quote from viewmo)

Well, the only thing you are protecting against with your current setup is:
a) One single HDD failure
b) An accidental delete that you notice very quickly

Scenarios that you do not protect against:
1) power surge (e.g. lightning strike)
2)…

I understand that installing is your focus now. But do you have a concept now?
See my post above.