Correct way to increase the capacity of an existing pool

[dan]

@Whattteva

Is it really that hard to fix?

It’s deliberate:

Is pool auto-expansion just broken by design now?

Ever since FreeNAS 8.0, pools have auto-expanded when you replace all disks in a vdev with larger disks. There’s been nothing additional the user has needed to do (even though the manual, for a long time, had a section about how to check for that property on a pool, and enable it if it was disabled). But with SCALE, this has stopped. Replacement disks, regardless of size (so long as they were larger than the disk they were replacing), are partitioned with the size of the disk they’re replacin…