Insufficient Space to Upgrade 11.2 to 11.3 with a 32GB USB

[Dangins89]

Hello all you awesome, helpful people! I've been googling and searching around the forums here for a few hours and I can't seem to find the answer I need. I feel it may be simple, but my path here has lead my astray and I'm confused...

I am attempting to update from 11.2 to 11.3. However, as the title says, it's failing because I'm out of space.

Upon investigation, I see that "freenas-boot" seems to only be 3.62GB on my mirrored 32GB USB drives.

I found a guide that suggested enabling autoexpand and running zpool online -e freenas-boot [device]. However, when I try to pass in da6p2 and da7p2, it says they don't exist in the pool...

Finally, here's my system specs!

Could someone please guide me on how to either properly expand the pool so these updates will work, or.. I don't know what better options there are? I can't seem to copy/paste from the GUI Shell, so I had to take pictures to avoid typos. Sorry for any missed details and thank you kindly for your assistance!

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Go to System --> Boot and delete old boot environments that you don't need anymore. Every single update keeps a copy of the previous version.

 

[Dangins89]

Hi Patrick,

Thanks for replying so quickly!
So under System --> Boot Environment I have
default 11.9M
Initial-Install 3.7M
11.2-U8 1.4G

I'm hesitant to delete the first 2, and while I'm not sure how much space I'm short by, don't think the 15M will make a big difference. I'm not sure why the pool is so small, I started this back in 2015, I think I started with 32GB USB sticks... but I *could* have started back on an 8GB stick. I've been on the 32GB USB sticks in a mirror since the start, if not a month later...

 

[Tony-1971]

Hi,

Can you try to execute:

Code:

% zpool list
NAME           SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  CKPOINT  EXPANDSZ   FRAG    CAP  DEDUP  HEALTH  ALTROOT
freenas-boot    14G  4.79G  9.21G        -         -      -    34%  1.00x  ONLINE  -
...
% beadm list
BE              Active Mountpoint  Space Created                 Nickname
default         -      -            7.4M 2020-01-11 14:19        default
Initial-Install -      -            7.0M 2020-01-11 14:26        Initial-Install
11.3-RELEASE    -      -            1.0G 2020-01-30 18:38        11.3-RELEASE
11.3-U2.1       -      -            1.0G 2020-04-23 10:08        11.3-U2.1
11.3-U3.1       -      -            1.0G 2020-05-22 16:52        11.3-U3.1
11.3-U3.2       NR     /            4.8G 2020-06-03 16:46        11.3-U3.2

Maybe there are other things that use the pool.

Best Regards,
Antonio

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Yep, old boot environments seem not to be the problem. What is configured as your system dataset?

 

[Dangins89]

Hi guys, so in poking at it more, I discovered you can use the gptid labels with the zpool online -e command. For whatever reason it wasn't happy with the da6p2 and da7p2 but the corresponding gptid labels worked. After I ran the command, the freenas-boot pool is using the full size of the usb drive, and I was successfully able to upgrade to 11.3! I'm not sure how to make this as solved, but that's my next step I think...

Thank you for your time and input!