Hi all,
I have a truenas server that I built a few years ago that got turned off for a reason i now cant remember.
I recently decided to get it up and running again.
After a few issues with hardware i had it up and running. At this point all disks were allocated to the correct places and everything was good.
Ive updated the software from the freenas core12.0-u8 it was running, to the current scale 24.
I run 2 pools, one on a pair of 2tb drives, the other is a pair of 6tb drives. It is purely for media storage and file serving for the family home.
Somewhere along the upgrade path a disk degradation notice appeared on one of my 6tb pool drives, also at the same time it said i had a new drive to add.
The ‘disks’ section in storage tells me all 4 drives and the boot drive are detected and they are all allocated to the right pools.
It seems the machine thinks the disk is both attached to my pool and a new drive!!
I tried exporting the pool and re-importing it, but i end up back at the same point with a spare drive to be allocated and a degraded pool.
Whilst playing with it at 2 am this morning i have managed to remove the suspect drive from the pool, so i now have a pool with 1 drive and a drive to be allocated thats already full of data.
In the ‘disks’ section it now displays this drive as detected but under the pool heading it says N/A.
So as it sits now i have 1 pool that is fine, 1 pool with 1 disk (showing degraded pool due to this) and a new drive to allocate.
How can i add the drive back in to the pool without wiping the data or is that my only option now??
Thanks for reading, any advice appreciated