Exported Volume now the drives are gone.

[scsi-toaster]

I have 3 ZFS volumes on my Freenas. I wanted to delete volume2 and create from the now 5 free drives and 2 additonal new drives a new volume. I exportet volume2 but forgot to check "Mark the disks as new (destroy data)". Now I can't find the drives from volume2 to create a new volume and I can't import volume2 either. The alert system says: WARNING: "The volume Volume2 (ZFS) status is"
I'm running FreeNAS-8.0.1-RC1-amd64 (7508)
:(

 

[woger]

Same problem here, I manually destroyed the volume using "zpool destroy <volumename>" which worked, but freenas is still not seeing te disks and giving the same error.

 

[woger]

OK, Here is what I did to solve this:
log in with ssh root
cd /data
cp freenas-v1.db freenas-v1.db_bu (backup the db)
echo '.dump' | sqlite3 freenas-v1.db >freenas.dump
vi freenas.dump
In vi I search (esc : / ) for the zpool name
I had a zpool containing 3 hd's named ada0 ada1 and ada2. the zpool was named 'backup'. So I deleted everything containing backup
then saved the file
rm freenas-v1.db
cat freenas.dump | sqlite3 freenas-v1.db

after that I was able to build a new zpool.

 

[nogs_]

Excellent woger. The only way I found around it was to do a factory reset which is a bother for me as I run the server headless and then I have to set up everything again.
Now, any thoughts on how to get rid of the system warning?

 

[nogs_]

errr... looks like I was a little over eager in removing entries from freenas.dump. While I can now see the drives I can't successfullycreate a volume. It just silently fails. Also can't log in with ssh as it wont accept my password. Tried changing in the gui but no good.

 

[woger]

Do you have it on usb or hd ? Try mounting it on a linux machine or a loive cd like ubuntu live cd.

 

[woger]

Oh btw. I think the system warning disappeared after I removed the volume with "zpool destroy <volumename>". I think you didn't do that, zo the volume still exists, only freenas doesn't know because you removed it from his database.