Re: Replacing a REMOVED drive in DEGRADED zpool

On 8/20/2025 11:23 PM, Matthias Fechner wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> Am 21.08.2025 um 03:55 schrieb Robert:
>> 1. Run `zpool offline zdb1 ada0p3`
>> 2. Shut down and pull/insert replacement
>> 3. Boot up and run `gpart backup ada1 > gpart.ada1` then `gpart 
>> restore ada0 < gpart.ada1`
>> 4. Run `zpool replace zdb1 ada0p3 ada0p3` 
>
> I have written for this some notes for myself:
> https://wiki.idefix.fechner.net/freebsd/zfs/#replace-a-failed-disk
>
> I do not think you must offline it, you should be able to use replace 
> command or attach (I would check the man page to verify that for the 
> version you use).

Thanks, there is some great information in  your document. And detach 
would not be necessary either? It can be replaced in its current status 
of REMOVED?