Cheese_Echidna
Dabbler
- Joined
- Jan 16, 2022
- Messages
- 13
Brief context:
When I first made it, my system was a quickly cobbled together mess of whatever parts I had lying around. Since then I have become increasingly engaged in the wonderful TrueNAS community and have realised the whole host of cool things that a solid NAS/Server can provide.
The system is made up of two drives:
boot drive - 512GB HDD
storage drive - 1TB HDD
The problem is that both drives are getting really old and the threat of drive failure (has happened to me before) looms ever nearer, so I would like to get them out of my system as soon as possible.
To solve this I went out and bought two new drives for the system.
New boot drive - 256GB Samsung SSD
New storage drive - 4TB Ironwolf NAS HDD
The problem is that in trying to add my new boot drive as a mirror of the old one (I know I could export the system config and then reinstall but I would rather not), I have run into the issue that the new drive is too small. To fix this I would like to resize the partition on the drive as
On another note is there a better way to replace the old storage drive than to stripe the pool across both drives and then remove the old drive from the pool? What's important to me is that the file paths don't change so I don't need to go through and reconfigure everything.
When I first made it, my system was a quickly cobbled together mess of whatever parts I had lying around. Since then I have become increasingly engaged in the wonderful TrueNAS community and have realised the whole host of cool things that a solid NAS/Server can provide.
The system is made up of two drives:
boot drive - 512GB HDD
storage drive - 1TB HDD
The problem is that both drives are getting really old and the threat of drive failure (has happened to me before) looms ever nearer, so I would like to get them out of my system as soon as possible.
To solve this I went out and bought two new drives for the system.
New boot drive - 256GB Samsung SSD
New storage drive - 4TB Ironwolf NAS HDD
The problem is that in trying to add my new boot drive as a mirror of the old one (I know I could export the system config and then reinstall but I would rather not), I have run into the issue that the new drive is too small. To fix this I would like to resize the partition on the drive as
zpool list boot-pool reports that more than 400GB of that 448GB are "Free". Is there any way I can do this? On another note is there a better way to replace the old storage drive than to stripe the pool across both drives and then remove the old drive from the pool? What's important to me is that the file paths don't change so I don't need to go through and reconfigure everything.
