One way of expanding a zpool is to add a new device. For vdevs. it is a zpool add poolname vdev. On the other, if i have a vdev, but i don’t want to expand the zpool using another vdev, how can i do this? I’ve tried appending additional GBs to the original vdev, but zfs didn’t autoexpand or detect…

[image] placid_chat: I’ve tried appending additional GBs to the original vdev, but zfs didn’t autoexpand or detect the larger size. Indeed, auto-expansion is not the default, can you try zpool set autoexpand=on <zpoolname>?

How to expand size of lxc zpool

sdeziel (Simon Deziel) October 8, 2021, 12:59pm 4

Indeed, auto-expansion is not the default, can you try zpool set autoexpand=on <zpoolname>?

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