Too much space left on device ;-)

[Jochen Vogel]

Good times together,

My FreeNAS boot / ROOT / default still has 1.8TB free space.

I think there was something wrong with the installation ...

Boot Volume Condition: HEALTHY
Last Scrub Run on: Tue Mar 20 11:45:10 2018
Size: 1.8 TiB
Used: 844.5 MiB (0%)

Can I allocate the free space to my / mnt / master volume without reinstalling?

Have already some iSCSI shares created ;-(

Code:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
freenas-boot / ROOT / default 1.8T 834M 1.8T 0% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% / dev
tmpfs 32M 10M 22M 32% / etc
tmpfs 4.0M 8.0K 4.0M 0% / mnt
tmpfs 5.3G 572M 4.7G 11% / var
freenas-boat / grub 1.8T 7.0M 1.8T 0% / boat / grub
fdescfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% / dev / fd
tmpfs 600M 79M 521M 13% / var / db / collectd / rrd
Master 7.0T 451G 6.6T 6% / mnt / master

regards,
ron

 

[gpsguy]

The something that's wrong is that you installed FreeNAS onto a 2TB disk.

FreeNAS needs to be installed on its own disk - separate from the data disks. 16GB is plenty and will hold a number of boot environments.

 

[garm]

Migrating to a smaller disk will be challenging. But you can download the configuration (the main selling point of FreeNAS!) and reinstall on a more reasonable device and the upload the config.

 

[danb35]

The something that's wrong is that you installed FreeNAS onto a 2TB disk.

Someone really ought to tell users about this. Oh, wait:

 

[Jochen Vogel]

Hello everybody,

if I understood correctly, I could copy the boot device to a usb drive?
Would also have to go from hdd to a usb device right?

Mirroring the FreeNAS USB Boot Device
https://blog.brianmoses.net/2016/04/mirroring-the-freenas-usb-boot-device.html

regards,
ron

 

[wblock]

Since the boot device is 2TB, another of that size would be required for a mirror.

What is being suggested is to back up the FreeNAS configuration, install FreeNAS to a smaller device, boot from that device, then restore the configuration. Then the 2TB drive can be used for something else.