Switching a drive in the pool

[nickdanger3d]

One of my drives is getting a lot of bad blocks, so I wanted to move all the data from it back into the pool after removing it. Data seems to read fine off of it, the problems happen with writing. I did greyhole --going for it, (but didn't have room to move all the files) then unchecked it in amahi settings, then put my new drive in and added it to the pool. The old drive is hooked up to a usb2 sata dock and I thought I should be able to move everything off it by setting the share location to the usb sata dock (for example, /media/drive5/gh/Photos).

I was expecting this to clear everything off the /media/drive5 disk into my regular storage pool, but as far as I can tell it's hardly moved anything after forcing greyhole --fsck. I tried it again just in case I was going crazy but it still hasn't moved anything.

Any ideas?

[bigfoot65]

Just manually copy the files off the bad drive and add them to the appropriate share. That will ensure you get what you need quicker.

[nickdanger3d]

Not enough room in my LZ :\

Do you think I can safely start copying everything over while balancing the drive to make that not a problem?

[bigfoot65]

Possibly. You could just move small amounts and then run Greyhole. Once the LZ is empty, do some more.

[nickdanger3d]

What I ended up doing was running the transfer for everything, and just queued up a bunch of --balance operations so the transfer went a little slower than usual but at least I didn't have to baby sit it.

[bigfoot65]

Glad you got it sorted out. Thanks for the update.