Tag: expanding

  • ZFS: Replacing a drive with a larger drive within a vdev

    ZFS: Replacing a drive with a larger drive within a vdev

    One way to expand the capacity of a zpool is to replace each disk with a larger disk; once the last disk is replaced the pool can be expanded (or will auto-expand, depending on your pool settings). To do this we do the following:   zpool replace [poolname] [old drive] [new drive]   e.g.:  …