Help me figure this out

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Ok, I have a FreeNas media server that has 5 hard drives in it, lets say they are numbered by the OS as sda1, sda2, sda3, sda4, and sda5, Freenas is reporting errors on sda3 and I have a replacement drive, but I want to pull the server from the rack, locate the drive, replace the drive and let ZFS rebuild the pool, my problem is this......

Once I pull the server out of the rack and open it up how do I determine which drive is sda3? all are identical 3tb WD red drives, is there a easy way to figure this out?

Sorry if this is a stupid question or if the answer is easy.....thanks in advance.

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have you tried renaming them something more specific, then pulling the sata plug (during shutdown) and seeing which one disappears when rebooted?

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Hard drives have unique Serial Numbers, printed on the drive. In linux you can get them with tools like hdparm etc. There probably is something similar in BSD. A quick google do suggest getting the serial is already build in to freenas, as expected.

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I thought about that but renaming them will probably destroy the drive pool since it is set up with the names it has, I really can't do that since there is over 5tb of data stored on the NAS.

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Yep...that sounds like the ticket...thanks I'll check it out.

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Hey there...

So what you want to do is from the Freenas GUI, click storage, then highlight the top of the storage 'tree' - whatever line item is on top. Then click View Disks, on this page freenas will list the serial numbers.

What error is Freenas reporting?

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Freenas has been a little sketchy (in my experience as of late) in reporting false smart errors.

I'd suggest:

Enable SSH from the Services section
Download Putty
Login to the same IP as your freenas server in putty (port 22 by default I think)
login as "root"

then type: "smartctl -a /dev/sda3/" (or whatever drive is reporting the error)

Post the results.

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Here's the message I'm getting....now it looks like it's two drives failing and the pool degraded.

Checking status of zfs pools:
NAME           SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  EXPANDSZ   FRAG    CAP  DEDUP  HEALTH  ALTROOT
freenas-boot  7.19G  1.91G  5.27G         -      -    26%  1.00x  ONLINE  -
zfs           13.6T  10.7T  2.93T         -    15%    78%  1.00x  DEGRADED  /mnt

  pool: zfs
 state: DEGRADED
status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error.  An
        attempt was made to correct the error.  Applications are unaffected.
action: Determine if the device needs to be replaced, and clear the errors
        using 'zpool clear' or replace the device with 'zpool replace'.
   see: http://illumos.org/msg/ZFS-8000-9P
  scan: scrub repaired 0 in 10h1m with 0 errors on Sun Nov 22 10:01:31 2015
config:

        NAME                                            STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        zfs                                             DEGRADED     0     0     0
          raidz2-0                                      DEGRADED     0     0     0
            gptid/cdf947be-b3a6-11e4-8801-d05099478e38  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/ce620209-b3a6-11e4-8801-d05099478e38  DEGRADED     0     0 32.3K  too many errors
            gptid/cecdb7a1-b3a6-11e4-8801-d05099478e38  DEGRADED     0     0 32.3K  too many errors
            gptid/cf3544cc-b3a6-11e4-8801-d05099478e38  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/cfa2402b-b3a6-11e4-8801-d05099478e38  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

-- End of daily output --

This is from the daily email I get....I'm at work so I can't check it, looks like I need two drives.

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Yeah, that doesn't look good.... but anyways, I listed above how to identify which drive is which by comparing serial numbers.

Good luck, resilver one at a time!

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Thank you....with you guys help I figured it out, just got to get another drive and replace both of them.....I did find the serial numbers and again thanks for the help it's much appreciated.

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Cool, feel free to PM if you need future help.

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