Create zfs fails - gui

[Joakim_1995]

Hello

Running:

pveversion --verbose
proxmox-ve: 5.3-1 (running kernel: 4.15.18-9-pve)
pve-manager: 5.3-5 (running version: 5.3-5/97ae681d)
pve-kernel-4.15: 5.2-12
pve-kernel-4.15.18-9-pve: 4.15.18-30
pve-kernel-4.15.17-1-pve: 4.15.17-9
corosync: 2.4.4-pve1
criu: 2.11.1-1~bpo90
glusterfs-client: 3.8.8-1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.2-2
libjs-extjs: 6.0.1-2
libpve-access-control: 5.1-3
libpve-apiclient-perl: 2.0-5
libpve-common-perl: 5.0-43
libpve-guest-common-perl: 2.0-18
libpve-http-server-perl: 2.0-11
libpve-storage-perl: 5.0-33
libqb0: 1.0.3-1~bpo9
lvm2: 2.02.168-pve6
lxc-pve: 3.0.2+pve1-5
lxcfs: 3.0.2-2
novnc-pve: 1.0.0-2
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 1.0-22
pve-cluster: 5.0-31
pve-container: 2.0-31
pve-docs: 5.3-1
pve-edk2-firmware: 1.20181023-1
pve-firewall: 3.0-16
pve-firmware: 2.0-6
pve-ha-manager: 2.0-5
pve-i18n: 1.0-9
pve-libspice-server1: 0.14.1-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 2.12.1-1
pve-xtermjs: 1.0-5
qemu-server: 5.0-43
smartmontools: 6.5+svn4324-1
spiceterm: 3.0-5
vncterm: 1.5-3
zfsutils-linux: 0.7.12-pve1~bpo1

I'm trying to setup a zfs from 2x3TB disk in mirror as seen on the image below.


After clicking "create" I get the following error:


"command '/sbin/zpool create -o 'ashift=12' storage mirror /dev/sdc /dev/sdd' failed: exit code 1"

Creating a single disk also fails.

What could be wrong?

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

Try to run the command in the shell - the output should give an indication where the problem lies (alternatively click on the taks log for the task (bottom of the GUI).
If this doesn't help - check the output of `dmesg` and `journalctl -r`

 

[Rob Loan]

bet one of the disks has been a member of an exported pool, use -f to force.

 

[Joakim_1995]

I did the commands in terminal.
It complaint about corrupt EFI label

root@basement:~# /sbin/zpool create -o ashift=12 homemedia mirror /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
invalid vdev specification
use '-f' to override the following errors:
/dev/sdc contains a corrupt primary EFI label.
/dev/sdd contains a corrupt primary EFI label.

I had done

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd bs=1M count=1

on them both...

I redid the command with -f and it seems to work now.

 

[VVyatt]

For future readers: I can confirm that this method worked for me on Proxmox 6.0

Enter the command in the shell rather than relying on the GUI, but add the "-f" option.

"/sbin/zpool create -f -o 'ashift=12' ThePool mirror /dev/sdc /dev/sdd mirror /dev/sde /dev/sdf"

Sorry to necro the thread, but there wasn't a clear solution stated for future users.

Thanks, VVyatt

 

[RoboBert]

Hi Guys,

I had this issue in 6.2-4 what i did to fix it is in shell

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda "change sda to your drive "
fdisk /dev/sda "change sda to your drive "
then w to write

Hope this helps

Cheers
Bert

 

[Petr Konderla]

Try:
wipefs -a /dev/sdsomething

(lsblk is your friend)

 

[bzero]

Try:
wipefs -a /dev/sdsomething

(lsblk is your friend)

This works for me. Thanks !

 

[choder]

Hi Guys,

I had this issue in 6.2-4 what i did to fix it is in shell

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda "change sda to your drive "
fdisk /dev/sda "change sda to your drive "
then w to write

Hope this helps

Cheers
Bert

Worked form me. I had two 4TB drives and one of them would give me that error. Thanks.