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I have just replaced a 3Tb Red in a raidz2 array. It is identical hardware to the remaining three hdds. The other tree drive are all partitioned thus:
What is the easiest (best?) way to re partition the new disk (ada3) and bring the new drive online so that the pool can resilver ?
Code:
gpart backup /dev/ada0 | gpart restore -l -F /dev/ada3I have just replaced a 3Tb Red in a raidz2 array. It is identical hardware to the remaining three hdds. The other tree drive are all partitioned thus:
Code:
for DN in {0..2} ; do gpart show /dev/ada"$DN" ; done
=> 34 5860533101 ada0 GPT (2.7T)
34 6 - free - (3.0K)
40 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K)
1064 984 - free - (492K)
2048 4194304 2 freebsd-zfs (2.0G)
4196352 134217728 3 freebsd-swap (64G)
138414080 5722118144 4 freebsd-zfs (2.7T)
5860532224 911 - free - (456K)
=> 34 5860533101 ada1 GPT (2.7T)
34 6 - free - (3.0K)
40 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K)
1064 984 - free - (492K)
2048 4194304 2 freebsd-zfs (2.0G)
4196352 134217728 3 freebsd-swap (64G)
138414080 5722118144 4 freebsd-zfs (2.7T)
5860532224 911 - free - (456K)
=> 34 5860533101 ada2 GPT (2.7T)
34 6 - free - (3.0K)
40 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K)
1064 984 - free - (492K)
2048 4194304 2 freebsd-zfs (2.0G)
4196352 134217728 3 freebsd-swap (64G)
138414080 5722118144 4 freebsd-zfs (2.7T)
5860532224 911 - free - (456K)What is the easiest (best?) way to re partition the new disk (ada3) and bring the new drive online so that the pool can resilver ?