May 24, 20242 yr I currently run 3x 16TB Seagate ironwolf pro HDDs, in a raidZ1 so one parity drive. I recently got a great deal on two more which I have purchased and thankfully I haven’t yet used much of the space so my plan was to plug in an external HDD that’s 20TB (enough for all my data in the pool as of now) Make a temporary pool with it and use the mover to move my shares where the data is to the external. Then I remove the existing pool and make a new one with the extra two drives and use the mover again to get the data from the external drive to the new pool. Does this sound like the best/easiest option for this? I can also do it on windows on my main PC if that’s a better option.
May 24, 20242 yr Community Expert You can do that but the mover won't work, you can use for example the Dynamix File Manager plugin.
May 24, 20242 yr Author Ok I’ll have a look at that, thanks. Out of intrigue how come mover wouldn’t work?
May 24, 20242 yr Community Expert Mover currently can only move from one pool to the array, or from the array to a pool, not from pool to pool.
May 25, 20242 yr Community Expert Are they all in a zfs pool? Tehn zfs terminal command to disk replce and partiy/replicate build. https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/gazgd/index.html https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/ghzvx/index.html In quick recap you bring the pool offline. You unconfigure /remove the disk add the new higger capacity disk run a scrub/parity rebuild ^replace all disk with higher capacity drives to increase space...
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