data04: moving data01/bacula/volumes over

After finally creating data04, it’s time to relocate some data. In this post: FreeBSD 14.3 The source The current zpool which is straining is data01: I plan to move data01/bacula/volumes over first, then data01/bacula/working. Let’s modify the source for better results on the move. What do we have now? [20:22 r730-01 dvl /jails/bacula-sd-03/usr/local/bacula/volumes] % zfs get compression,recordsize data01/bacula/volumes NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE data01/bacula/volumes compression on inherited from data01 data01/bacula/volumes recordsize 1M local Let’s […]

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creating a raidz2 from 8x 4TB devices – here. we. go.

It’s time. Time to create the 8x 4T raidz2 zpool. These are the devices: disks=”nda0 nda1 nda2 nda3 nda5 nda8 da12 da13″ In this post: FreeBSD 14.3 Check for existing partitions Using the list above: [18:15 r730-01 dvl ~] % gpart show | grep -E “nda0|nda1|nda2|nda3|nda5|nda8|da12|da13” => 40 7814037088 nda5 GPT (3.6T) => 34 7814037101 nda8 GPT (3.6T) Note I could not do this command because it fails at the first error: [18:05

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Making room to creating a raidz2 from 8x 4TB devices – here. we. go.

It’s time. Time to create the 8x 4T raidz2 zpool. That doesn’t happen in this post, hopefully the next one. But first, I have to move some stuff around, to free up all the 4TB devices. The host has 4 devices (NVMe) and I moved in two more, 4TB SSDs. From /var/log/messages: Dec 9 00:24:29 r730-01 kernel: mrsas0: System PD created target ID: 0xc Dec 9 00:24:29 r730-01 kernel: mrsas0: System PD created

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Adding gmirror swap to FreeBSD 14.3 – r730-01

I recently migrated the zroot on r730-01 to a new pair of devices. I did not then configure swap for the swap partitions I set up. I’m going to do that now. I’m hoping this post from 8 years ago helps. In this post: FreeBSD 14.3 The first few sections include what’s in the system, and detects and fixes a few issues. Look for The real work near the bottom of the page.

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How to recover when booting to multiple zroots?

On Nov 28, I rebooted r730-01 after an update, and it didn’t come back. At all. I had inserted 2x 4TB SSDS a few days earlier. It seems they contained remnants of a zroot. The host was trying to boot from them. I couldn’t get the host to boot from the real zroot. It frustrated me. I gave up and went to sleep later. The next morning, I moved those two drives into

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The latest SATADOM drives contained data when I got them

Today I wanted to test some stuff with the newly obtained SATADOM SSDs. I was surprised to find they still had data on them. dvl@r730-04:~ $ gpart show ada1 => 63 242255601 ada1 MBR (116G) 63 1985 – free – (993K) 2048 495616 1 linux-data [active] (242M) 497664 193816576 2 linux-data (92G) 194314240 47939584 3 linux-data (23G) 242253824 1840 – free – (920K) Well, one of them at least. Let’s have a snoop.

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Creating a new zpool for r730-01

Finally, it’s time to put together a new zpool for r730-01 (the storage information at that URL is already out of date; once this new zpool is created, another post will replace it). In this post: FreeBSD 14.3 I just realized, that my previous post on the zpools for this host revealed there is already a zpool with 2x 4TB NVMe: data02: [20:17 r730-01 dvl ~] % zpool list data02 NAME SIZE ALLOC

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Another pair of SATADOM devices

Now that r730-01 is booting from SATADOM devices (which are directly attached to the M/B, thereby freeing up drives bays / PCIe slots for larger devices), I thought it wise to buy a second pair. For two reasons: The price of used devices was pretty good It’s good to have spares nearby In this post: FreeBSD 14.3 smartmontools-7.5 smartctl info Here is the SMART info. Next drive: My notes The power on hours

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r730-01 zpools

This post documents the drive locations for zpools within r730-01. It will be replaced from time to time with a new post. To the left of a device is an indication of the drive physical location. Unused devices Unused drives/slots: Slots 12 & 13 each contain a 4TB SSD. Slots 14 and 15 are empty. Those drive cages are on the workbench and each hold a 2TB SSD. There are also NVMe devices

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Consolidating the disk space in r730-01

I’m writing this up to have a starting point for when I come back to arrange the free space into zpools. This post might be the end-result of a request for donations for disk space etc that went out on 2025-08-29 – I was running short of space. Since then, donations (both cash and hardware) have helped me figure out that problem. After moving the zroot zpool onto a pair of SATADOM SSDs,

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