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It turned out, there was no need to factory reset the system. I misunderstood the share deletion options and assumed that the first option (I only want to disable ...) is for deleting the share without deleting the underlying file structure, whereas the second (I want to permanently delete ...) is to delete the share and…

I assume, the data in the RAID1 is kept across factory reset.

I guess I could do that. Othar than the passwords no information would be lost.

One more question though. The new volume has a different name from the original. I still have all the shares from the original setup not pointing to nowhere. I failed to remove them from the webui shares screen (Delete share). Is there a way to get rid of them? I found the definitions in /etc/zyxel/conf/startup-config.conf…

I was worried in the morning for the md0_sync operation still didn't finish after running for more than 16 hours. I tried but failed logging in using the webui. Telnet was ok, but top was showing no activity. I tried and failed rebooting the NAS and realized that I won't be able to restart it normally. Long pressing the…

I have good news. I tried to find information about migrating JBOD to RAID1 on this NAS and found that it should be possible. I had guessed that the option for that should be expand (which was not available for the JBOD volume), but I was wrong. I tried migrate and it actually is converting the JBOD to RAID1. I could…

Expand option is not available. Create internal volume options. 

Ok, I finally reached the point when I had time to try this. I created the JBOD on one of the new disks and copied all files from the old one. Then I inserted the second 4TB disks (deleted the leftover partitions) and tried to find the option to convert it from JBOD to RAID1. Unfortunatelly there is no such option. I can…

Ok. I went through the script you mentioned and found a couple of ambiguities. - The script don't explicitely make a distinction between MBR or GPT partition tables. Rather, it checks the size of the disk and the partitions. - When calculating the size of the first partition it uses sdx1Size=`cat /sys/block/sdb/sdb1/size`…

Thanks for the suggestion. The 4TB disk has all the data on it (in an ext4 filesystem), so I can use the currently unused disk for this. What I do not see now, if there was an option to convert a single disk volume to a RAID1 volume. And what if I convert the partition table of the 4TB disk to GPT? Either on a linux box or…