Its not a simple question, thats the reason (at least my quess).
What you are trying to do (i believe) is simple, but theres lots of variables you are throwing in thats making it a little complicated.
You appear to have two issues:
Issue 1:
the partitioned ssd.
Solution:
- Kill pool (and config)
- recreate pool/config (intialize ppu, by wiping all ppu data, do not create off old ppu data; you might be able to use the old ppu data, but with the wierdness of your setup, I wouldnt chance it)
- look in paritition and copy any data (that you want in the pool) out of it into the pool
Issue 2:
new ppu
Solution:
- there are guides on replacing the ppu already, so not sure what you are asking.
http://forum.flexraid.com/index.php?topic=475.0 http://wiki.flexraid.com/2013/02/13/replacing-swapping-out-a-non-failed-drive-for-another-drive/ http://wiki.flexraid.com/2011/07/05/process-for-expanding-snapshot-raid-dru-ppu-size/- you also appear to answer your own question, you just need to rebuild the pool, theres a guide to do this without rebuilding the pool
- either rebuilding the pool or not, its very simple to do, and you data will never be in jeopardy
total solution:
if, and I emphasize IF, because I barely understand what you are asking, IF I understand you, I personally would just start over
- kill the pool/config
- wipe the any ppu's you had (using normal formatting techniques) (you don't need to do this, but I would advise it given your wierd paritiion issue)
- your old ppu should be blank now, as well the the new 6tb one (again the only reason you are doing this is because of the partition issue, without the partition issue you would not need to recreate the parity)
- recreate the pool, using the 6tb one as the ppu, and the 4tb one as another dru
- you will need to intialize the pool, which means calculating all the parity again from scratch (you could get around this, but I would advise against it with your partition issue)
- once the pool is created, and the parity is computed (will take a long time), you can copy any data that was in the partitiion into the pool if you want.