ZFS Singledisk Autogrowth

jsterr

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Im having a demo lab atm and try to autogrow a zfs single disk, does someone know how to do this? (zfs is NOT used for boot atm, its a separate disk)

Code:
apt update && apt install cloud-guest-utils
zpool set autoexpand=on zroot
growpart /dev/sda 4

# physical disk shown in lsblk with new size

Code:
root@custom-hw-image:~# lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda      8:0    0 223.6G  0 disk
|-sda1   8:1    0   260M  0 part
|-sda2   8:2    0   512K  0 part
|-sda3   8:3    0     8G  0 part
`-sda4   8:4    0 215.3G  0 part

How can I expand the zfs file system? zpool list still shows old size and EXPANDSIZE is strangely only 8G.
 
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Bump :-) Anyone? @Dunuin zfs god, can you help? ;-)
 
Haven't needed it in a while. Did a quick test, and it did not recognize the larger partition right away :-/. With zpool online tank -e /dev/sdd it did realize that the partition size changed. It was a disk only for the pool, so only partition 1 and 9 present. No idea if/how it will work in your case.
 
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Yes I tried that, but it doesnt work:


Code:
root@pve01:~# zpool status
  pool: rpool
 state: ONLINE
config:

        NAME                                          STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        rpool                                         ONLINE       0     0     0
          scsi-0QEMU_QEMU_HARDDISK_drive-scsi0-part3  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors
root@pve01:~# lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda      8:0    0  100G  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0 1007K  0 part
├─sda2   8:2    0  512M  0 part
└─sda3   8:3    0 74.5G  0 part
sr0     11:0    1  1.1G  0 rom
root@pve01:~#

root@pve01:~# growpart /dev/sda 3
CHANGED: partition=3 start=1050624 old: size=156235743 end=157286366 new: size=208664543 end=209715166

root@pve01:~# lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda      8:0    0  100G  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0 1007K  0 part
├─sda2   8:2    0  512M  0 part
└─sda3   8:3    0 99.5G  0 part
sr0     11:0    1  1.1G  0 rom

root@pve01:~# zpool get size
NAME   PROPERTY  VALUE  SOURCE
rpool  size      74G    -

root@pve01:~# zpool set autoexpand=on rpool
root@pve01:~# zpool online -e rpool /dev/sda3

root@pve01:~# lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda      8:0    0  100G  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0 1007K  0 part
├─sda2   8:2    0  512M  0 part
└─sda3   8:3    0 99.5G  0 part
sr0     11:0    1  1.1G  0 rom

root@pve01:~# zpool get size
NAME   PROPERTY  VALUE  SOURCE
rpool  size      74G    -

Edit: Thanks for the help, after reboot it shows as "EXPANDSZ" at least..

Code:
root@pve01:~# zpool list -vvv
NAME                                           SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  CKPOINT  EXPANDSZ   FRAG    CAP  DEDUP    HEALTH  ALTROOT
rpool                                           74G  1.35G  72.7G        -       25G     0%     1%  1.00x    ONLINE  -
  scsi-0QEMU_QEMU_HARDDISK_drive-scsi0-part3  99.5G  1.35G  72.7G        -       25G     0%  1.82%      -    ONLINE

But zpool online -e rpool /dev/sda3 does not change anything. Maybe this does not work on boot device...

Edit: ZFS needed the disk-by-id argument, now it worked!

Code:
root@pve01:~# zpool online -e rpool scsi-0QEMU_QEMU_HARDDISK_drive-scsi0-part3

root@pve01:~# zpool list -vvv
NAME                                           SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  CKPOINT  EXPANDSZ   FRAG    CAP  DEDUP    HEALTH  ALTROOT
rpool                                           99G  1.35G  97.7G        -         -     0%     1%  1.00x    ONLINE  -
  scsi-0QEMU_QEMU_HARDDISK_drive-scsi0-part3  99.5G  1.35G  97.7G        -         -     0%  1.36%      -    ONLINE

I will give this to my colleagues, they tried it with a OPNsense (single-disk zfs) and they struggled.
 
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