Omega Destroyer
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- Jan 15, 2023
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I'm considering moving from Windows Storage spaces (which I've actually been quite happy with and successfully replaced failed drives a couple of times) to TrueNAS.
I have 4 x 10TB and 4 x 12TB drives that I want to put in RaidZ2. Naturally, the TrueNAS GUI takes the whole disk, but given the matching requirements, that leaves 2TB of each 12TB disk that goes unused.
Now I could just live with it, but given that one of the benefits of software RAID is flexibility, and various forums posts about pools running fine on partitions, I would like to use the remaining 8TB in some other pool (different configuration).
I understand the performance implications of using the same physical disk in different pools, but there will rarely be cases where files are read or written to the two different pools, I am willing to make that trade off.
I found several posts about people partitioning SSDs for ZIL or L2ARC, but that's not what I'm doing here. I would like to use the remaining space on drives in the pool to create another pool.
I've currently playing with TrueNAS is a Proxmox VM with some fake virtual disks to try various configurations before migrating my data. I want to simulate disk failures, different setups etc so I feel confident I can deal with things before I make the transition. If I partition the virtual disks with Gparted (live CD), then boot into TrueNAS, TrueNAS doesn't even see the disks anymore.
Question: How would I partition the disks with GParted GUI and then boot into TrueNAS so it sees the partitions?
Caveat: I'm a Linux Noob (hence the reliance on Storage Spaces up to this point).
I have 4 x 10TB and 4 x 12TB drives that I want to put in RaidZ2. Naturally, the TrueNAS GUI takes the whole disk, but given the matching requirements, that leaves 2TB of each 12TB disk that goes unused.
Now I could just live with it, but given that one of the benefits of software RAID is flexibility, and various forums posts about pools running fine on partitions, I would like to use the remaining 8TB in some other pool (different configuration).
I understand the performance implications of using the same physical disk in different pools, but there will rarely be cases where files are read or written to the two different pools, I am willing to make that trade off.
I found several posts about people partitioning SSDs for ZIL or L2ARC, but that's not what I'm doing here. I would like to use the remaining space on drives in the pool to create another pool.
I've currently playing with TrueNAS is a Proxmox VM with some fake virtual disks to try various configurations before migrating my data. I want to simulate disk failures, different setups etc so I feel confident I can deal with things before I make the transition. If I partition the virtual disks with Gparted (live CD), then boot into TrueNAS, TrueNAS doesn't even see the disks anymore.
Question: How would I partition the disks with GParted GUI and then boot into TrueNAS so it sees the partitions?
Caveat: I'm a Linux Noob (hence the reliance on Storage Spaces up to this point).