October 18, 2022

Upgrading an NVMe zpool from 222G to 1TB drives

The FreshPorts dev, test, and stage websites are hosted on a server in my basement. Each instance consists of two jails: an ingress node – for pulling in new commits (and other data) into the database. a webserver node – for displaying the web pages. The new drives: Sometimes the zpool gets too close to full. I tweeted about one incident on March 2021. I held hope that some spare SSDs might be […]

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Where’s my drives?

This is just rough notes for myself. List the gpart output for each drive in my system. for drive in $(sysctl -n kern.disks) do gpart show $drive done gpart: No such geom: da11. => 40 9767541088 da10 GPT (4.5T) 40 8392664 – free – (4.0G) 8392704 9758048256 3 freebsd-zfs (4.5T) 9766440960 1100168 – free – (537M) => 40 976773088 da9 GPT (466G) 40 2008 – free – (1.0M) 2048 838860800 1 freebsd-zfs (400G)

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