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Date:      Tue, 28 Feb 2017 09:53:46 +0000
From:      Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
Cc:        Motty Cruz <motty.cruz@gmail.com>, freeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: how to expand zpool
Message-ID:  <20170228095346.759e12f1@curlew>
In-Reply-To: <CADqw_gJNN4sRSbg0An_DTHj-4PEkb-p49d%2B9iNT0V3EwytXckw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 08:27:10 +0100
Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com> wrote:

> simply put, physically replace one disk, 'zpool replace' it. when that's
> done, next disk ... This process is very well documented :-)

You need to set autoexpand for the pool to "on" before it can grow to
utilise the extra space.

Also see https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=216881
there's a bug which causes zpool detach to hang if autoexpand is set to
"on". I don't know if this also affects zpool replace but to be safe
leave autoexpand set to "off" until after you've replaced the last
drive.

-- 
Mike Clarke



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