November 26, 20232 yr I have added a disk to my system. Right now the disk shows up under Disk Devices. This will eventually be used as a mirrored cache drive so I want to format it to ZFS. When I go to format the disk after I select the format it says "Enter the pool name for this device. This will also be the mountpoint for the disk". What do I use for pool name when I don't really want it added to any pool? I just want to format the drive and copy over all of the content from my cache drive for now. Do I just set any pool name?
November 27, 20232 yr Community Expert Just pick a name. UNRAID calls every single Disk outside the main array as a "Pool". You need a name because you want to mount that disk in order to be able to select it as a copy target. Historically UNRAID names the first "Pool" "Cache", but that is also only a name, not a function. You can select ANY pool later on as a cache drive for a share.
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