ZFS: Add disk to single disk pool
Patrick
gibblertron at gmail.com
Sun Feb 2 23:52:09 UTC 2014
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Patrick <gibblertron at gmail.com> wrote:
> I set up a 9.2 system following the "RootOnZFS" instructions in the wiki.
> I have:
>
> # zpool status
> pool: zroot
> state: ONLINE
> scan: none requested
> config:
>
> NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
> zroot ONLINE 0 0 0
> gpt/disk0 ONLINE 0 0 0
>
> I have another disk that I'd like to add to expand the size of the volume,
> but I'm not sure how to do that.
>
> I've prepped the disk with:
>
> gpart create -s gpt ada1
> gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -l disk1 ada1
>
> I tried a few different things, but I'm clearly not getting something:
>
> # zpool add zroot /dev/gpt/disk1
>
> cannot add to 'zroot': root pool can not have multiple vdevs or separate
> logs
>
I found the solution here: http://astralblue.livejournal.com/371755.html
I just had to set bootfs="" temporarily while I added the new disk, and
then set it back.
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