How to Expand My Current Volume?

[the_get_man]

So I have a Volume made up of 4 disks. 3x1TB and 1X4TB which should = 7TB. However, my volume only = 2.7 TB.

How can I expand this volume to include all of the disk capacity?

I am using FreeNAS 8.2.0 and I am pretty new to FreeNAS.

 

[gpsguy]

Slowly replace the 1TB drives with 4TB drives, one at a time, following the instructions in the manual, and the volume will expand automatically.

See the documentation - http://doc.freenas.org/

At some point, consider upgrading, v 8.2.0 is several years old

 

[pirateghost]

Why would you think it's supposed to be 7tb? If all those disks are in a single vdev, the only way they would equate to that much storage is if you have zero redundancy and went with a stripe across all the disks. Which would be a dumb move if you care about the data.

 

[the_get_man]

Slowly replace the 1TB drives with 4TB drives, one at a time, following the instructions in the manual, and the volume will expand automatically.

See the documentation - http://doc.freenas.org/

At some point, consider upgrading, v 8.2.0 is several years old

So the reason I got on the forum is because the system had 4x1TB disks and storage space equaled 2.7TB. I replaced 1 of the disk with a 4TB drive which gave me the disk setup mentioned above but the storage space stayed at 2.7 instead of expanding. I thought adding the 4 TB drive would automatically increase my storage space to at least 5.7TB.

So in other words the volume did not expand automatically.

 

[pirateghost]

The volume will expand automatically when you have all the same size disks in the vdev. Just like any raid would.

 

[jgreco]

So the reason I got on the forum is because the system had 4x1TB disks and storage space equaled 2.7TB. I replaced 1 of the disk with a 4TB drive which gave me the disk setup mentioned above but the storage space stayed at 2.7 instead of expanding. I thought adding the 4 TB drive would automatically increase my storage space to at least 5.7TB.

So in other words the volume did not expand automatically.

No, because you need to replace *all* the disks with 4TB drives, at which point it'll grow.

 

[Mr_N]

It will never grow bigger than your smallest drive * number of drives - redundancy factor :)