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adding vdev to a pool via GUI

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Tomsk
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adding vdev to a pool via GUI

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I have a pool 'A' with a vdev of 3 x 2TB in RAIDZ1
I have another vdev with 2x3TB & 1x1.5TB (can't afford another 3TB right now and I figured I could replace the 1.5TB with a 3TB later)
I tried to add the new ved to the pool in th GUI using the 'vdev add' command
I get the following:

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vdev add...
invalid vdev specification
use '-f' to override the following errors:
raidz contains devices of different sizes
I can't create a new pool using just this new vdev either. I get the 'error 1' message.
I thought that ZFS allows for different sized HDs in vdevs?
What am I missing / not doing right?
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Re: adding vdev to a pool via GUI

Post by raulfg3 »

I remember other post with same behaviour, and remember that Daoyama modify webGUI to use -f = force , so you can do.

PD: if fails, do the same in the shell , and import result pool on webgui to have it sinchronized.
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