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Prefacing that I know this is a longshot

My brother in law is using #TrueNAS with #ZFS, he didn't backup.

He imported his disks by different names (ada4p2 and Long-GUID-Goes-Here for the other)

He had an issue and his disks got relabelled. Now only one of his four disks in his pool is available. I can see the correct gpt ids when I run GEOM, but on the wrong device names.

Any way of forcing ZFS to rescan names or relabel my device nodes? (my mknod searching is failing me)
#ZFSHelp

To be fair, if this is anywhere, it's advanced ZFS

Or FreeBSD For The Desperate

can you use zpool import with a -d for each device? (Man page says -d can be specified multiple times.)
One of the nice things about ZFS is it doesn’t (in general) care if things are moved around.

@Eric Borisch yeah, I'm not used to the moving issies, but ok.

I'll try individual -ds, thanks

(NB: No experience with TrueNAS.) "sudo zpool import" should scan all drives and report any pools that can be imported (and likely any that cannot.)

@PracticalZFS (and the related forum) for more help (from people who know more than me.)

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@HankB @Practical ZFS - Discussions yeah - I dug through imports and it's showing me that the disk is gone (but I see it!), I am trying on a new live image to see if that improves it