Remove a data hard drive and then re-use it again later?

General Discussion
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Hi,

I’m using dietpi on native hardware, and I’m planning on doing a wipe and installing Bullseye (I know you can do it manually, but I want to start fresh)
The system is mainly used for Emby and has two hard drives, an SSD for boot (dietpi) and a SATA 6TB (Emby media).

I don’t have a spare hard drive more significant than 6TB. Could I remove the 6TB drive, wipe the SSD, install dietpi Bullseye, re-attach the 6TB drive, mount it, and nothing will be deleted, and it will work fine?

Thanks!

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Yes, upon connecting the HD with bullseye, mount the drive normally as you would for a first time, indicating the mounting point.