Expand capacity of raidz1 pool

David Christensen dpchrist at holgerdanske.com
Sat Feb 9 07:15:22 UTC 2019


On 2/8/19 2:44 PM, Anders Jensen-Waud wrote:
> Hello there
> I have a 1 TB raidz1 pool on FreeBSD 11 (root on separate volume). I need more capacity and am looking to migrate to a mirror with 10 TB (min).
> How do I migrate the raidz1 pool to a new pool?
> Constraint: I only have capacity for 4 drives in the machine. 3 are currently occupied (root is on a small ssd). This will be important during the migration period.
> Best
> Anders

Backup data, backup configuration settings, remove old disks, install 
new disks, build new pool, restore data, configure as necessary, and 
validate.


David


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