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Wow, who knew a NAS was this much of a pain. OK so it it's probably more of because how I use it.
Anyways, looking for some advice here. I just added a new drive to my NAS. All good there. It folded right into the RAID 5. I expanded the pool no issues as well.
However, when I went to windows to expand the volume it gave me an error. I would be over the cluster limit. I probably took the default 4k size when I created the volume.
I am assuming the answer here is larger clusters which would reduce drastically the cluster count. I know I can wipe it and reformat it and change the cluster size but I would be restoring data for days. So I bought some software which I thought would do this on the fly. Paragon Hard Disk Manager. However it oddly claims it needs some enormous amount of space to do this operation.
This is not a problem I have faced at any point ever at home or at work. So just looking for some advice.
Thanks.
Anyways, looking for some advice here. I just added a new drive to my NAS. All good there. It folded right into the RAID 5. I expanded the pool no issues as well.
However, when I went to windows to expand the volume it gave me an error. I would be over the cluster limit. I probably took the default 4k size when I created the volume.
I am assuming the answer here is larger clusters which would reduce drastically the cluster count. I know I can wipe it and reformat it and change the cluster size but I would be restoring data for days. So I bought some software which I thought would do this on the fly. Paragon Hard Disk Manager. However it oddly claims it needs some enormous amount of space to do this operation.
This is not a problem I have faced at any point ever at home or at work. So just looking for some advice.
Thanks.