Should I partition or format a disk before replacing a FAULTED disk in a ZFS pool?

Asked Sep 17 '20 at 11:32

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I recently had a FAULTED disk in a ZFS pool and wanted to replace it. I simply put the disk in and let it resilver. Afterwards, I noticed the disk was partitioned differently than the other disks and I could not boot anymore. This turned out to be a GRUB issue and I needed to re-install GRUB.

But the question is, should I partition the disks the same way or just disregard?

The pool is a RAID-Z2 pool with 6x 6TB disks, all same brand and model.

asked Sep 17 '20 at 11:32

Wouter

Putting the root filesystem on ZFS (on Linux) is not yet production ready and probably never will be. – Michael Hampton Sep 17 '20 at 12:03
This is how Proxmox does it though... – Wouter Sep 17 '20 at 15:20

Should I partition or format a disk before replacing a FAULTED disk in a ZFS pool?

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