Can I move a drive with data around getting a different disk number?

Will this work? ("offended" people please click for the next topic)

I am almost at the end of building my unRAID and ended up with drive5 (of a total of 7, with drive7 NOT YET in the array, so 6) having all the "overflow" data of other disks.

NOTE: I haven't installed parity yet (will do it after it all ends).

For organizational reasons and only, I want current drive5 to become drive7 (last possible drive except cache disk).

I imagine I should:

- unassign drive5 (remember it HAS data)

- assign it as drive7

...and I am ok to go on? (as I don't have a parity yet)

Will it mess my user shares? (I will check manually for this anyway)

...or is there a different procedure to do this?

Again for some: I ask because I cannot risk experimenting with live data.

after reading some more, it was clear that even if it wouldn't work, I would be ok to restore previous situation if I didn't have a parity and didn't do anything else with the array

so I did it - and it worked fine

I have never done this myself, but this was asked and answered by Tom:

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=364.msg2539#msg2539

Keywords:  reorder, reassign, renumber, exchange

cool

NLS,

If your data is critical, I'd suggest adding your parity drive now.  It might slow down your subsequent data migration, but everything would be protected.

Joe L.

I am in the last steps of my setup (I might post my Odyssey if there was an appropriate "social" -ahem- section) and parity will probably be assigned tomorrow night.

I am in no greater risk than I was up to today (and before unRAID).

Machine is on UPS.

Wish me luck.