Error: [EZFS_BADDEV] device is too small

[rpieket]

Hi-

I replaced an HDD, following the instructions found here
I'm running into "Error: [EZFS_BADDEV] device is too small" when I select "Replace" on the disk. It's a 10TB HDD, just like the one I replaced, and all the others.

What can I do? (Using the GUI)

-Ron.

 

[rpieket]

The only difference between the old HDD and the new one is that the new one is a "WD Red Plus", replacing a "WD Red"

 

[HoneyBadger]

Some vendors unfortunately have a slight space/sector difference between their models.

To bypass this, you can temporarily set the size of the Swap partition created to 0, following the instructions here:

10. Storage — FreeNAS®11.3-U5 User Guide Table of Contents

www.ixsystems.com

Swap space is allocated when drives are partitioned before being added to a vdev. A 2 GiB partition for swap space is created on each data drive by default. The size of space to allocate can be changed in System ➞ Advanced in the Swap size in Gib field. Changing the value does not affect the amount of swap on existing disks, only disks added after the change. This does not affect log or cache devices, which are created without swap. Swap can be disabled by entering 0, but that is strongly discouraged.

As suggested in the documentation, you should immediately set this back to the default of 2GB once the replacement is finished.

 

[rpieket]

That worked. Thank you!