Increased storage, but not in the same pool...?

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alanl

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Hello!
I'm using FreeNAS 11.1
I've just changed the 4x WD Green 2TB drives in my FreeNAS for 4x WD Red 4TB drives..
I did this by replacing each drive at a time, over the past 2 days, by using a 5th drive slot on the computer (HP microserver), and followed the instructions in the guide from the GUI.
This says that at the end of the process, I should see the extra storage available under the Storage-Volumes tag.
I can see that the storage has increased to 7.2TB from 3.5Tb, but the size of the pool is still the same, at 3.5 TB.

Was I wrong to expect the pool size to increase? Or ... If I want a larger pool, should I destroy what I have, and recreate from the offline back-up?

Thanks for any advice!!

Alan
 
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I can see that the storage has increased to 7.2TB from 3.5Tb, but the size of the pool is still the same, at 3.5 TB.

Please be more specific here. Describe exactly what you are seeing using which version of the GUI or show us a screenshot.
 

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Please see the screen shot below..
 

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Post the output from zpool get autoexpand
 

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What is your pool layout? what is your hardware?
 

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Post the output from zpool get autoexpand
[root@freenas ~]# zpool get autoexpand
NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE
FreeNAS_1 autoexpand off default
freenas-boot autoexpand off default
[root@freenas ~]#

I suspect that that tells the answer...?? autoexpand is set to off
 

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Run the following command zpool set autoexpand=on FreeNAS_1. You may have to reboot for the change to take effect.
 

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Run the following command zpool set autoexpand=on FreeNAS_1. You may have to reboot for the change to take effect.
I've done that... and now get...
[root@freenas ~]# zpool get autoexpand
NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE
FreeNAS_1 autoexpand on local
freenas-boot autoexpand off default
[root@freenas ~]#

But the storage tab still shows the same as before...
 

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What's the output of gpart show
 

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What's the output of gpart show
Code:
[root@freenas ~]# gpart show																										
=>	  34  31266749  da0  GPT  (15G)																							  
	   34	  1024	1  bios-boot  (512K)																						
	 1058		 6	   - free -  (3.0K)																						
	 1064  31265712	2  freebsd-zfs  (15G)																					  
  31266776		 7	   - free -  (3.5K)																						
																																  
=>		40  7814037088  ada0  GPT  (3.6T)																						
		 40		  88		- free -  (44K)																					
		128	 4194304	 1  freebsd-swap  (2.0G)																				
	4194432  7809842688	 2  freebsd-zfs  (3.6T)																				
  7814037120		   8		- free -  (4.0K)																					
																																  
=>		40  7814037088  ada1  GPT  (3.6T)																						
		 40		  88		- free -  (44K)																					
		128	 4194304	 1  freebsd-swap  (2.0G)																				
	4194432  7809842688	 2  freebsd-zfs  (3.6T)																				
  7814037120		   8		- free -  (4.0K)																					
																																  
=>		40  7814037088  ada2  GPT  (3.6T)																						
		 40		  88		- free -  (44K)																					
		128	 4194304	 1  freebsd-swap  (2.0G)																				
	4194432  7809842688	 2  freebsd-zfs  (3.6T)																				
  7814037120		   8		- free -  (4.0K)																					
																																  
=>		40  7814037088  ada3  GPT  (3.6T)																						
		 40		  88		- free -  (44K)																					
		128	 4194304	 1  freebsd-swap  (2.0G)																				
	4194432  7809842688	 2  freebsd-zfs  (3.6T)																				
  7814037120		   8		- free -  (4.0K)				   


[root@freenas ~]#
 
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Gah, post output in code tags please, the formatting is lost and it's difficult to read when you don't.

Partitions look ok. You can try offlining each drive one at a time from the GUI and then bring them back on line to see if it picks up the autoexpand flag. If that doesn't work I'm out of ideas.
 

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Sorry about not using the code tags...

Offlining each drive and bringing it back has changed things...

Storage02.png
 

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Are you sure you have a RAIDz2 pool? That looks like a RAIDz1 pool. Post the output of zpool status.
 

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Code:
  pool: FreeNAS_1																												  
 state: ONLINE																													
status: One or more devices are configured to use a non-native block size.														
	   Expect reduced performance.																								
action: Replace affected devices with devices that support the																	
	   configured block size, or migrate data to a properly configured															
	   pool.																													  
  scan: resilvered 8.50K in 0 days 00:00:01 with 0 errors on Sun Dec 31 17:53:56 2017											  
config:																															
																																  
	   NAME											STATE	 READ WRITE CKSUM												
	   FreeNAS_1									   ONLINE	   0	 0	 0												
		 raidz2-0									  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0												
		   gptid/e5e84235-eca0-11e7-bbcc-984be10888a6  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0  block size: 512B configured, 4096B native	  
		   gptid/2a45a8b0-ecec-11e7-8d86-984be10888a6  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0  block size: 512B configured, 4096B native	  
		   gptid/1d6a88d8-ed46-11e7-9164-984be10888a6  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0  block size: 512B configured, 4096B native	  
		   gptid/e2ff90ff-ed8b-11e7-9840-984be10888a6  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0  block size: 512B configured, 4096B native	  
																																  
errors: No known data errors																										
																																  
  pool: freenas-boot																												
 state: ONLINE																													
  scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0 days 00:05:57 with 0 errors on Sun Dec 24 03:50:58 2017											  
config:																															
																																  
	   NAME		STATE	 READ WRITE CKSUM																					
	   freenas-boot  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0																					
		 da0p2	 ONLINE	   0	 0	 0																					
																																  
errors: No known data errors
 

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Well I don't know what I was looking at before but it all looks good. At least you have all your new capacity now.
 

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Many Thanks for the help..!!

I'm still a bit confused though...

In #13 above... it shows 11.4TB available, but on the next line down it shows 5.4TB available...?
 

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First line is total disk space of the entire pool. Second line down is available disk space minus overhead and parity.
 
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