Robert Trevellyan
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The user guide covers it pretty thoroughly.
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Hard drive Failure? Help please.
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eddie200112
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Ya I apologize, I'm following that now. But I am a bit confused I shut down the server though to replace the drive right? Doesn't have to be hot-swapped but can be if my hardware supports it correct?
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eddie200112
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So when I click replace, after rebooting with the new drive installed I get the drop down menu with one option ada4 when I select it and select replace it tells me "Disk is not clear, partitions or ZFS labels were found"
Do I tell it to force the replace or is this picking up one of my other drives?
Do I tell it to force the replace or is this picking up one of my other drives?
SweetAndLow
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What did this new drive have on it before you put it in your freenas system? Does the gui show you the new serial number?
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It came from Seagate as a refurbed drive, I assume had nothing. Yes the Gui shows me the correct serial #. I went ahead and had it force the resilver. so we will see. At 65% now..
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Have you looked at the manual? That's usually a good place to start.
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That is to me a concern that something is wrong and you may be messing up. A new or refurb drive that has never been used should not indicate that there was a ZFS partition on it. Ensure you track your drives by the serial numbers on the labels.
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I just replaced a drive in my pool the other day. I'm expanding my pool by re-silvering in larger capacity drives.
AFAIK when you replace a drive that currently is "online" and healthy, you must choose the "force" option
when doing it this way. Once the re-silver is complete, FreeNAS will off-line the replaced drive. At that point all you
need do is shutdown the machine and pull that drive, then reboot. PLEASE NOTE: Your drive labels will change once again!
AFAIK when you replace a drive that currently is "online" and healthy, you must choose the "force" option
when doing it this way. Once the re-silver is complete, FreeNAS will off-line the replaced drive. At that point all you
need do is shutdown the machine and pull that drive, then reboot. PLEASE NOTE: Your drive labels will change once again!
eddie200112
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OK well I forced it and all seems well so far.
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