So the time arrived, when I ran out of space on my home file server and had to increase space again. I have done it once before under FreeBSD9 without problems, but now Under FreeBSD 12 p7 I got some errors. My data seems still intact, just the question of what errors I got and should I be worried?
I replaced the disks one by one in my RAID6 array, after that increased RAID set and Volume size (Areca specific).
After that I booted into single-user mode and did according to FreeBSD handbook:
growfs rezise gave some errors i did not write down, but were similar to following errors.
Running fsck gave errors:
I got no errors after that, booted into multi-user and it seems to be working...
Only forum post I found with similar error messages, but I don't understand the relevance:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/strange-errors-on-boot-using-11-1.63815/
PS.
Used documentation for RAID expansion:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?257737-Help-RAID-6-expansion
https://hardforum.com/threads/areca-users-capacity-expansion-question.1356904/
https://hardforum.com/threads/how-to-expand-an-areca-raid6-array.1655075/
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-growing.html
I replaced the disks one by one in my RAID6 array, after that increased RAID set and Volume size (Areca specific).
After that I booted into single-user mode and did according to FreeBSD handbook:
Code:
gpart show da0
gpart recover da0
gpart resize -i 1 da0
growfs /dev/da0p1
growfs rezise gave some errors i did not write down, but were similar to following errors.
Running fsck gave errors:
Code:
g_dev_taste: make_dev_p() failed (gp->name=gptid/17f783eb-bcae-11e1-954a-001731f89896, error=17)
g_dev_taste: make_dev_p() failed (gp->name=ufsid/4fe4de89519c9f38, error=17)
save data to find alternate superblocks? y
add cylinder group check-hash protection? n
I got no errors after that, booted into multi-user and it seems to be working...
Code:
>df -h /dev/da0p1
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da0p1 33T 16T 16T 49% /usr/home
Only forum post I found with similar error messages, but I don't understand the relevance:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/strange-errors-on-boot-using-11-1.63815/
PS.
Used documentation for RAID expansion:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?257737-Help-RAID-6-expansion
https://hardforum.com/threads/areca-users-capacity-expansion-question.1356904/
https://hardforum.com/threads/how-to-expand-an-areca-raid6-array.1655075/
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-growing.html