Hello there,
I made a RAID 5, it seemed to work fine. I was having issues with one of the drives, and I removed it from the RAID to run some tests on it. Big mistake. When I went to add it back into the RAID, it told me there was not enough space. So I re-initialized it, thinking maybe then I could add it back in and softRAID would re-build it. Nope. Now it tells me that there are no Softraid initialized disks with enough free space to be added to my RAID. All of this within a span of a few minutes, with no disk activity. I don't understand how the exact same initialized drive doesn't have enough space, when it was literally part of this RAID five minutes ago. Most importantly, I don't know what to do.
Any advice on how to get this drive back into the RAID?
-Adam
p.s. I assume I could probably wipe the RAID out, and rebuild from scratch, but I don't have sufficient space to juggle the data to make that happen.
I think you may not be doing this correctly. Are you initializing the disk with SoftRAID?
Then using "Add disk"?
@softraid-support Yes, that's exactly what I am doing. I did figure out a work-around. I resized my RAID to be 0.1 TB smaller. Then went to add the drive again. Success.
@adamcatalyst Strange that you would even need to do that.
@softraid-support As an FYI follow-up for anyone who ever has this issue, I was able to restore the RAID back up 0.1 TB larger once the RAID had rebuilt the disk. So a pretty easy and simple solution is anyone ever has this happen to them.
Ali Sami Farooq here i also try this but in my case it is working properly. Thank you for your support.
I think I'm having the same issue; trying to add my new drive to the raid and I receive the same message. Can you explain how you " resized my RAID to be 0.1 TB smaller " ?
Maybe my issue is different. Here's a screen shot.
I appreciate the time and help.
Select the volume tile for your volume and in the volumes menu, "resize volume"
Make it very slightly smaller. See if that works. If not, then attach a SoftRAID tech support file.
@softraid-supportI I appreciate the help, truly! :) I was an idiot and realized I hadn't validated the volume after the drive failed. I was able to resize the volume after this process was complete. It's resizing now, hopefully that does the trick!