- Closed
Tried naming a pool (for example) Wood2 and received the following error:
Use only lowercase with no special characters or leading/trailing digits
Looking for documentation online, this is the only remotely official doc I easily found on the subject:
QuoteEach ZFS component, such as datasets and pools, must be named according to the following rules:
Each component can only contain alphanumeric characters in addition to the following four special characters:
Underscore (_)
Hyphen (-)
Colon (:)
Period (.)
Pool names must begin with a letter, and can only contain alphanumeric characters as well as underscore (_), dash (-), and period (.). Note the following pool name restrictions:
The beginning sequence c[0-9] is not allowed.
The name log is reserved.
A name that begins with mirror, raidz, raidz1, raidz2, raidz3, or spare is not allowed because these names are reserved.
Pool names must not contain a percent sign (%).
Dataset names must begin with an alphanumeric character.
Dataset names must not contain a percent sign (%).
This seems to indicate that the name Wood2 is valid. So too would WOOD - neither is allowed in Unraid (yeah I rhymed it on purpose 
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I can't find any info anywhere else about not using as few or as many CAPS as one wants, nor about using numbers at the end of a name. Some sites, like Proxmox, even say you can use a space in the name - which frankly does make a lot more sense than allowing a colon.
If we don't bend software to our will, in a few years (along with AI) it'll be bending us to its. 🤣