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sudo snapraid diff Loading state from /var/snapraid/snapraid.content... Comparing... 6116 equal 0 added 0 removed 0 updated 94 moved 0 copied 0 restored There are differences! sudo snapraid sync Loading state from /var/snapraid/snapraid.content... Comparing... 6210 equal 0 added 0 removed 0 updated 0 moved 0 copied 0 restored No differences The above commands were run sequentially, immediately. 6116 is also not equal to 6210 but = 94 which is the moved value of the diff command?

There is reference to a Launchpad PPA and there used to be Snapraid in the Ubuntu PPA but it appears they either are no longer maintained or exist. Why is that?

And what a champ you are UhClem , there was a file called disk12 but not a directory, with the file removed and the directory added everything works as advertised, thank you muchly.

I refer to the following from the snapraid faq: How can I remove a data disk from an existing array? To remove a data disk from the array do: Change in the configuration file the related "disk" option to point to an empty directory Remove from the configuration file any "content" option pointing to such disk Run a "sync" command with the "-E, --force-empty" option: snapraid sync -E The "-E" option tells at SnapRAID to proceed even when detecting an empty disk. When the "sync" command terminates,...

I have noticed this on several earlier occasions but never raised the issue. Whenever I replace a disk I, at the end of the proceedure, run the status command and it always returns a message that a very large part of the array is/has not been scrubbed, normally in excess of 50%. I have 11 data disks with roughly equivalent data on all of them so it cannot be possible that by changing 9% of the data disks I have 50% of the files not scrubbed.

I think from a pragmatic perspective you are totally correct.

@David and UhClem, thanks for your replies, I do appreciate them. This seems like a case I have been involved in before, your more knowledgable bottom up approach verses my simple top down approach. If I am doing exactly the same thing for the best part of a decade, in one case running a media server and the other a simple, repetive workflow why is it necessary to have more RAM in a computer which is better in every regard than the ones they replace in the first instance and after an OS upgrade in...

I will tell you why I suspect it may not but first some background info: my snapraid PC is 2 years old and is a replacement machine for one I built in 2013 specifically as a media server. Based on my years of usage of Snapraid I found that the old machine with a I5 CPU was easily able to handle 2 different video streams concurrently. Based on this I opted for a mid level replacement being a Ryzen 2600X on a X470 MB. And it has worked very well for the last 2 years up till upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04....