[Disk volume not expanding in raid 6 setup]

No data on it yet, it finished resizing about 12 hours ago

[Disk volume not expanding in raid 6 setup]

7 minutes ago, emkookmer said:

it is because your are using RAID 6

 

it will look at the smallest drive in you raid setup and use that size * the amount of drives.
in your case 1.82Tb * 4 (the other 2 are parity with raid 6) = ~7.28Tb.

 

The remaining space (~5Tb) is not used.

 

you might want to look into SHR, but your DSM doesn't support it.

Perhaps you may consider switching to DS917

 

I would agree but I am only seeing 5.44 which is 1.82*3 not 4

[Disk volume not expanding in raid 6 setup]

Hello

 

I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction in case I am doing something wrong. I recently found out about XPEnology when researching nas solutions and wanted to give it a try. Everything was going well until I added my 6th disk and the volume did not increase. I am running DSM 6.1.3 update 7 on baremetal (DS3617xs) and moving disks slowly over from another raid solution. Everything was going well up to disk 5 but when adding #6 the volume failed to increase. I have since run both a raid scrub and file system scrub with no luck (also tried a reboot). According to the raid calculator I should have ~8TB of available space.

 

I've done some reading in this regard but most tutorials are back around DSM releases 3 and 4 and involve running ubantu to fix the file system but I wanted to check in before I go wondering off into unknown territory. Thanks in advance.