what happened to my pool???

[rs232]

I've been moving things around, and to cut a long story short I have to remove the disks from the gui and reimport them.
I've also removed the pool from the gui.

When reimporting the disks I've specified that they are formatted in zfs. But...

nas4free:~# zpool list
no pools available

If I go adding the pool from the GUI (ZFS, pools) it still doesn't work but at least it can see the pool name under virtual devices.

I'm confused

[raulfg3]

1 - use new option "clear and import disk" is more safe that add one to one by hand.

2 - Use new option detect and import ZPool in ZFS status syncrhonize

PD: Do not try to add the pool in the gui (ZFS, pool) adding vdev because you are instruct to ZFS that you want to create a New one ( and you lose your actual ZFS metadata , and can't import it).


PD2: use import when you want to restore an existing pool, use web gui ZFS Pools when you want to destroy info and create a new one zfs pool.


from shell try to do

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zpool import poolname

or

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zpool -f import poolname

if suggested by first command.

[rs232]

Thanks that helped. I notice that based on the action sometime it' s better to use the shell other times is better to use the GUI.

[daoyama]

I've also removed the pool from the gui.

Doesn't this action destroy a pool? DO NOT re-create if you does not want lose all data on it.
vdev is a member disk of the pool. not a pool.

If you don't have the pool, try "zpool import -D"
If you didn't reboot after remove the pool, the action may be logged to Diagnostics|Log.

[rs232]

In my understanding you lose data if you remove the dataset. I did delete the pool and my data is there available.