Formatting an external drive to mount

[David Martinez]

Folks,

I have a lot of data I need to move from one TrueNAS instance to another. Internet being somewhat unreliable, I though I might try simply attaching a USB disk to one, copying the data to it and then manually moving the USB disk to the other TrueNAS server. The trouble is, I don't know what disk format I should use or how to even format a disk in TrueNAS. mkfs does not appear to be an option, and I see many folks discourage the use of NTFS. I also considered simply creating a new pool with just the USB disk, but I didn't know if that would create issues when I removed it or if I could even import it properly into the other TrueNAS instance. Any suggestions?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Create a pool on the disk in the Storage section of the UI. When copying is finished, export that pool. Import at the destination.