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    Replace failed HDD in pfsense gmirror

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      luckylinux
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      Today I accessed pfsense interface and - by my surprise - I discovered the array was degraded.
      I haven't received any email notification which I suppose it's quite strange.

      Anyway I'll have to go fetch another HDD to replace the failed one.
      How to perform this? I mean recreate partitions (possibly by copying the layout from the surviving disk), setup mirror, sync/refresh, …

      Thank you for your help  ;)

      ASUS E35M1-M PRO (AMD E-350), 8GB RAM, 2x500GB GEOM GMIRROR
      NIC DETECTED: 1 x PCI INTEL PWLA8391GT , 1 x OnBoard REALTEK 8111E, 1 x PCIe INTEL EXPI9301CTBLK , 1 x PCI PLANET ENW-9605
      NIC UNDETECTED: 1 x INTEL EXPI9301CTBLK

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        doktornotor Banned
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        Should really be as simple as

        
        gmirror status (note which drive failed)
        gmirror forget pfSenseMirror
        gmirror remove pfSenseMirror ad?
        shutdown -h
         <replace failed="" disk="">gmirror insert pfSenseMirror ad?
        gmirror status (check if rebuild started)</replace> 
        

        (Replace ad? with the failed HDD node.)

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