replace drive error

[ftippin]

I see my problem was posted for freenas system. I wanted to check if still valid for my 13.0 U3.1 installation. It's the "device too small" error given for 7 different 6TB drives. Some were actually used previously in a working pool.

 

[joeschmuck]

I'm sorry, your posting makes no sense. Please update your question. If you have a Jira ticket, then you need to look this up in Jira.

 

[winnielinnie]

Did you originally create the vdev/pool without the 2 GB swap reservation?

 

[ftippin]

I don't recall. How do I check? I just got my motherboard back after sending it to be repaired under warranty. That took most of my attention. My current system isn't shown,

 

[joeschmuck]

How do I check?

glabel list
Have you removed the partitions from the new used drives? Maybe that would help.

But I still don't understand your question. You state the question as if you previously had a problem and are asking if it's still a problem in the current TrueNAS version. I have no idea if you are replacing a 12TB drive with a smaller 6TB drive, or a 6TB drive with a 6TB drive. You just do not provide adequate information. You cannot replace a drive with a smaller sized drive, never. This has to do with the way the data/parity is allocated to the drives. You can install larger drives but not smaller drives.

 

[ftippin]

My last post was a reply to Winnielinnie about the 2 GB swap reservation. I saw an older post on this error that seemed to talk about zeroing out the swap then reinstating afterwards. My original post was on reference to the old post "[EZFS_BADDEV] device is too small". The reply to joeschmck is as follows:
I'm running a 8x6TB Rz2 pool in tn13.0 u3.1. Because mobo issues 2 of the drives went down. Sent the mobo in for warranty repairs. When I installed the repaired mobo one of the drives came back online leaving one drive in removed status. I have 7 extra 6TB drives( all same exact model as the removed drive) that I've tried to use as replacements. I used the force replace option each time. All of the drives return the same error "ZFSException: device is too small" and "[EZFS_BADDEV] device is too small ".

 

[ftippin]

I went and adjusted the swap size to 2GiB from 4 and the drive replaced beautifully. I did go back and increase the swap back to 4.