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Cannot modify Volume settings

Postby svanette » Sat Mar 24, 2012 7:07 pm

I have a 210J with two discs installed. Originally I had two 750Gb discs, but one failed and I got a replacement disk of 2Tb. The 750Gb disc was set up with SHR. I added the new disc and assigned it to the same volume i had earlier (volume 1). Everything went OK and all drives are OK with no error messages.
However, when I want to access and modify the settings of volume 1 or any of the hard discs this is not possible, as only the "Remove" tab is active.
How can I get access to volume 1 or the hard drives to modify the setting or see what the settings are?
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Re: Cannot modify Volume settings

Postby HarryPotter » Sat Mar 24, 2012 7:14 pm

:?: There is nothing to setup or modify anymore.....
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Re: Cannot modify Volume settings

Postby svanette » Sat Mar 24, 2012 11:00 pm

OK, I am not that familiar with the setup of the Synology station. I guess this also means that if I want to change to Raid 1 for the 750Gb, and make a new volume for the space above 750 Gb on the 2Tb drive I need to remove the old volume and set i up once more. All data will be deleted then I assume posting.php?mode=reply&f=7&t=49186#
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Re: Cannot modify Volume settings

Postby maxxfi » Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:58 am

Yes, in the current situation the system cannot use the extra 1.2 TB.
One (probably expensive) option is of course to replace also the other 2TB. Then you can expand your current volume to full disk capacity.
Otherwise, you could do the following (which is risky, as you need to operate with a degraded RAID):
- remove the 2TB disk, current volume (/volume1 ?) will be degraded.
- replug the disk and create a new volume (/volume2).
- copy internally all data, and move your services from /volume1 to /volume2
- destroy /volume1 and re-create it
That will leave you with two separate volumes, about 2.7 TB of space but no redundancy.
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