I have a volume the currently has one 3TB drive and one 4Tb drive in Stripe mode. I would like to add a 3rd 3TB drive but I am unable figure out how to accomplish this. The info I have found is a bit contradictory and now I believe I might have made a boo boo. Here is what I did.
Physically installed the new drive. Under Storage > View Disks the new drive shows up, all info the same as the other two drives.
I went to Volume Manager, selected the volume I wanted to extend and under the Available Disks area the new drive was there. When I clicked the Extend Volume button I got and error message indicating I was trying to add a vdev with two drives to a vdev with one drive. This is just from memory, not sure of the actual message. Searching I found a post somewhere that indicated they had the same problem and by using Manual Setup the process worked so I did that. I did not receive any error messages but the volume was not extended. So now.
The new drive still shows up in the View Disks area
Under View Volumes, the volume still shows only 6.2TB available - the original amount before I started this process.
Under Volume Manager, if I select the volume to extend no drives are available.
If anyone can help me get out of this predicament I would greatly appreciate it.
Physically installed the new drive. Under Storage > View Disks the new drive shows up, all info the same as the other two drives.
I went to Volume Manager, selected the volume I wanted to extend and under the Available Disks area the new drive was there. When I clicked the Extend Volume button I got and error message indicating I was trying to add a vdev with two drives to a vdev with one drive. This is just from memory, not sure of the actual message. Searching I found a post somewhere that indicated they had the same problem and by using Manual Setup the process worked so I did that. I did not receive any error messages but the volume was not extended. So now.
The new drive still shows up in the View Disks area
Under View Volumes, the volume still shows only 6.2TB available - the original amount before I started this process.
Under Volume Manager, if I select the volume to extend no drives are available.
If anyone can help me get out of this predicament I would greatly appreciate it.