Replacing failed drive

[Gunhead]

Hello

I am trying to replace a failed drive but according to the guide it appears I need to have the new drive and the old drive already connected and to pick the replacement from the faulty drive drop down menu . In my case this is not possible as I dont have any free sata ports available. There must be a different way to do this.

My question is: how can I replace the disk considering I cannot have the old and the new one connected at the same time?

 

[Dusan]

You don't need to have both drives connected at the same time. The old drive will appear in the list even if it is disconnected as ZFS still considers it a (disconnected) part of the pool until you replace it.

 

[Gunhead]

Thank you Dusan for clearing that up for me, the new drive was not there at first and that got me confused. But after a few reboots finally it showed up.

 

[Gunhead]

Quick lazy question: how do I see the re silvering progress? Can't seem to find something like that in the graphical interface? Is there a command line for that?

 

[Jason Hamilton]

You can log into the server via the terminal or ssh. Once logged in type zpool status. This will show you how its going.