Hello,
First of all, I'm a noobie, and unfortunately enough knowledge of freenas to think I know a lot until I do a mistake and I realise I actually know nothing.
I am using freenas as a plex server, no mirror, no backup.
I had two drives, 1Tb + 500Gb - the 500Gb started having some issues - increasing unreadable sectors. I got another 1Tb drive and my plan was to extend my pool with this one and remove the 500Gb all together.
I first added the 1Tb to the pool as an external drive connected through USB, and then after just removed the 500Gb drive.
This happened two days ago, and since then I try to find a solution - unfortunately UI tried so many things that I don't remember all the steps to put them here.
Because the pool was unrecognisable because I removed one of the drives, I added the 500Gb back. But the pool was still offline.
I tried zpool import f, zpool import -c, but the error was the same
the configuration database and will be reset on reboot.
root@freenas[~]# zpool import
pool: zNAS
id: 16741139929772745747
state: UNAVAIL
status: One or more devices are missing from the system.
action: The pool cannot be imported. Attach the missing
devices and try again.
see: http://illumos.org/msg/ZFS-8000-3C
config:
zNAS UNAVAIL insufficient replica
disk 1 Online
disk 2 Online
Disk 3 UNAVAIL cannot open
I then created a new pool and added the new 1Tb drive to it. Now, if I try to extend the pool with the other drives (that now have the status as online, unused) I will lose the data on them.
Is there any way I can add the disks to the new pool without losing the data?
I tried to import disk, but I can't import without selecting the Filesystem type. And the disks are zsf, but the options are UFS, NTFS, MSDOSFS and EXT2FS.
I tried them all - just in case - but none worked.
I am not sure what to do next without doing any damage to the data on the hard disk. Any advice would be really appreciated.
Thank you
First of all, I'm a noobie, and unfortunately enough knowledge of freenas to think I know a lot until I do a mistake and I realise I actually know nothing.
I am using freenas as a plex server, no mirror, no backup.
I had two drives, 1Tb + 500Gb - the 500Gb started having some issues - increasing unreadable sectors. I got another 1Tb drive and my plan was to extend my pool with this one and remove the 500Gb all together.
I first added the 1Tb to the pool as an external drive connected through USB, and then after just removed the 500Gb drive.
This happened two days ago, and since then I try to find a solution - unfortunately UI tried so many things that I don't remember all the steps to put them here.
Because the pool was unrecognisable because I removed one of the drives, I added the 500Gb back. But the pool was still offline.
I tried zpool import f, zpool import -c, but the error was the same
the configuration database and will be reset on reboot.
root@freenas[~]# zpool import
pool: zNAS
id: 16741139929772745747
state: UNAVAIL
status: One or more devices are missing from the system.
action: The pool cannot be imported. Attach the missing
devices and try again.
see: http://illumos.org/msg/ZFS-8000-3C
config:
zNAS UNAVAIL insufficient replica
disk 1 Online
disk 2 Online
Disk 3 UNAVAIL cannot open
I then created a new pool and added the new 1Tb drive to it. Now, if I try to extend the pool with the other drives (that now have the status as online, unused) I will lose the data on them.
Is there any way I can add the disks to the new pool without losing the data?
I tried to import disk, but I can't import without selecting the Filesystem type. And the disks are zsf, but the options are UFS, NTFS, MSDOSFS and EXT2FS.
I tried them all - just in case - but none worked.
I am not sure what to do next without doing any damage to the data on the hard disk. Any advice would be really appreciated.
Thank you