Can't Create a Pool - Boot Pool Used Full Disk?

[Corn]

Hi all,

First time setting up TrueNAS or anything of this kind. A bit lost on certain things, hoping for some clarification with a specific issue surrounding my boot-pool and creation of pools. Did not see anything in my multiple forum searches :)

Version:
TrueNAS-13.0-U6.1

After installation completed and I logged into the UI I attempted to create a pool in the Pool Manager. The first thing I noticed is that there is only one single disk showing within the pool and it has a capacity of zero.

I poked around a bit further and went into Disks. In Disks I see I created the boot-pool with the full capacity for the drive. If it's relevant I installed TrueNAS on an old Dell PC with a single HDD.

My guess here is I should have made the boot pool smaller so I could have space for other things? Or am I completely misunderstanding things here? Main point is how exactly do I rectify this outside of a full reinstall? I mean a full reinstall wouldn't be so bad, but I wanted to potentially learn this system some more and see what options were available to me.

Thanks to everyone in advance for the help!

 

[Ericloewe]

poked around a bit further and went into Disks. In Disks I see I created the boot-pool with the full capacity for the drive.

Yes, that is how it works.

Main point is how exactly do I rectify this outside of a full reinstall?

You don't, the boot pool requires a full disk, for reasons that have been widely discussed. Several options exist for actually implementing this, but given the high-level description of your machine, they're going to revolve around USB for you.

 

[oxyde]

When installing TN, in the moment you choose the disk for boot, system advice you about that.
If you have enough SATA port available, just buy a little SSD (i have one about 60gb, 6€, more than enough for boot), otherwise not all USB pen are good for install and boot TN

 

[danb35]

Did not see anything in my multiple forum searches :)

Aside from the fact that installer itself tells you this, I'm surprised your forum searches didn't find this:

I have to waste an entire drive just for booting?

With the advent of TrueNAS Scale, we seem to be getting a large number of people from the Linux community who are not quite grasping what TrueNAS is. TrueNAS is not a "Linux distro" and it is not designed to try to meet your arbitrarily spec'd...

www.truenas.com

 

[Corn]

Not interested in receiving anymore advice from the friendly folks on this forum. Heaven forbid someone is new to this and has basic questions. No no no we better answer sarcastically and single them out for not being perfect human beings. I'll just figure out things on my own.

 

[Ericloewe]

That's fine, metaphorically shooting the messenger because you don't like the message is your problem. No one was actually rude to you in any way.