Hello everyone,
I have the CWWK N100 and I'm looking to add another NVME drive into it just for redundancy as I have the spare drives.
I have been looking at these instructions (https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=32650.0) which seem simple enough but I'm getting hung up on the steps to copy the partition table.
"gpart backup ada0 | gpart restore -F ada1"
When I run geom list disk, I see both of my drives showing:
root@OPNsense:~ # geom disk list
Geom name: nda0
Providers:
1. Name: nda0
Mediasize: 500107862016 (466G)
Sectorsize: 512
Mode: r3w3e6
descr: KINGSTON SNV2S500G
lunid: 00000000000000000026b76865cfcd85
ident: 50026B76865CFCD8
rotationrate: 0
fwsectors: 0
fwheads: 0
Geom name: nda1
Providers:
1. Name: nda1
Mediasize: 500107862016 (466G)
Sectorsize: 512
Mode: r1w1e1
descr: KINGSTON SNV2S500G
lunid: 00000000000000000026b7686c0a0ee5
ident: 50026B7686C0A0EE
rotationrate: 0
fwsectors: 0
fwheads: 0
root@OPNsense:~ # gpart show
=> 40 976773088 nda0 GPT (466G)
40 532480 1 efi (260M)
532520 1024 2 freebsd-boot (512K)
533544 984 - free - (492K)
534528 16777216 3 freebsd-swap (8.0G)
17311744 959461376 4 freebsd-zfs (458G)
976773120 8 - free - (4.0K)
My opnsense is installed on nda0 but when I run the command to start copying the partition table, I get an error stating:
root@OPNsense:~ # gpart backup nda0 | gpart restore -F nda1
gpart: geom 'nda1': Operation not permitted
Now, nda1 (the new drive) may have been formatted and used in another random PC so I'm unsure if its an issue with formatting?
I don't think that it is related to formatting but I'm not entirely sure.
Has anybody else ran into this issue?
Quote from: bx2 on March 22, 2025, 01:14:57 AMNow, nda1 (the new drive) may have been formatted and used in another random PC so I'm unsure if its an issue with formatting?
Can you try wiping the new drive first (sure you do it on the right device! Backup is always a good idea, of course):
As mentioned in OPNsense Forum: Formatting whole disk before installation (https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=23837.0), try destroy the disk and delete the first 1M of the drive:
gpart destroy -F nda1
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nda1 bs=1M count=1
Quote from: patient0 on March 22, 2025, 07:50:07 AMQuote from: bx2 on March 22, 2025, 01:14:57 AMNow, nda1 (the new drive) may have been formatted and used in another random PC so I'm unsure if its an issue with formatting?
Can you try wiping the new drive first (sure you do it on the right device! Backup is always a good idea, of course):
As mentioned in OPNsense Forum: Formatting whole disk before installation (https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=23837.0), try destroy the disk and delete the first 1M of the drive:
gpart destroy -F nda1
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nda1 bs=1M count=1
Thank you,
That doesn't seem to work.
root@OPNsense:~ # gpart destroy -F nda1
gpart: arg0 'nda1': Invalid argument
I did a bit more searching around and I came across a similar issue on a different system-forum:
https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/create-new-pool-ends-with-error-command-gpart-create-s-gpt-dev-ada0-returned-non-zero-exit-status-1.77775/
I did set
sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
and then I ran
gpart create -s gpt /dev/nda1After that, I then was able to proceed with the instructions for adding the second NVME disk to Opnsense.
Now it looks like everything is complete.
When I go into zpool status, I can see both nda0p4 and nda1p4 listed.
root@OPNsense:~ # zpool status
pool: zroot
state: ONLINE
status: Some supported and requested features are not enabled on the pool.
The pool can still be used, but some features are unavailable.
action: Enable all features using 'zpool upgrade'. Once this is done,
the pool may no longer be accessible by software that does not support
the features. See zpool-features(7) for details.
scan: resilvered 2.33G in 00:00:04 with 0 errors on Sat Mar 22 10:59:11 2025
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
zroot ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
nda0p4 ONLINE 0 0 0
nda1p4 ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
Thank you,