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Cadet
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I'm replacing each of the drives in my FreeNAS setup with bigger drives. I already have a 3-2-1 backup tested and working, and I've replaced failed drives, so this would not have been an issue for me except that...
I'd rather not take out a drive and replace it when missing, so I put a new drive into my HDD Dock and let it replace overnight. This morning I swapped the replaced drive with the new one, and now I'm in a degraded state! It turns out that this dock does not expose the serial number of the drive, so FreeNAS was using some generic string instead, and now that's technically missing and I have a new drive that's not in the pool (even though it technically has all the right data in it.
My question is, how do I go about this process in the best way? Is there any way to make FreeNAS recognize this new drive by updating the serial numbers somewhere? I guess in the worst-case scenario I'm finding a new dock or replacing drives with one of them offline.
I'd rather not take out a drive and replace it when missing, so I put a new drive into my HDD Dock and let it replace overnight. This morning I swapped the replaced drive with the new one, and now I'm in a degraded state! It turns out that this dock does not expose the serial number of the drive, so FreeNAS was using some generic string instead, and now that's technically missing and I have a new drive that's not in the pool (even though it technically has all the right data in it.
My question is, how do I go about this process in the best way? Is there any way to make FreeNAS recognize this new drive by updating the serial numbers somewhere? I guess in the worst-case scenario I'm finding a new dock or replacing drives with one of them offline.