Recently replaced my 3TB drives with 6TB ones, on my Freenas 11.2. Pool is a 2 drives-mirror and are encripted by old geli key method with autoexpand=on. After resilver and reboot, pool dont seems to expand. So, after some research, Im inclined to follow these line of approach: “use zpool offline pool partition followed by zpool online -e pool partition for each partition to expand the pool to use all available space”. Can the fact my pool is encrypted impact this process(lose my data)?
You should be able to use “zpool online -e” without offlining the partitions first.
But first check with gpart if the partitions cover the whole 6 TB at all. If they don’t, “gpart resize” is the tool for that.
Now how exactly GELI encryption on such an old release is affecting partitioning I don’t know.
Let’s start with the output of “gpart show”.
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So it’s ada1 and ada3 which make up your pool? Partitions look ok. Check the manpage for “geli” on how to show the devices and if you can see their size. If they are also 5.5T just go ahead and try “zpool online -e”.
HTH,
Patrick
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After your flawless guidance, I have got my so desired TBs. I owe you a beer, sir.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!