removing a pool of dead disks.

[zuluechopapa]

this is ... hopefully an odd sort of situation to get into. I recently got a freenas xl mini, ordered 3 10tb drives.
all that is setup and working fine. I also had 3 leftover/unused 8tb drives that I wasn't able to use in my linux machine, I thought I'd add them in here.
and thus begins my tale of woe. it turns out that maybe one of the 3 drives is ok, the other two are dead and unusable. I got one added into a new pool before it died... but only the one drive added. so now I have a pool that's disabled, unavailable and I can't seem to remove it. trying to 'export/disconnect' it just leaves me with a forever spinning 'please wait' circle. it's more of an annoyance than a terrible problem, but I'd still like to fix it.

sorry if I haven't lurked/managed to search around and this is a super common/easy fix. thanks.

OS Version:
FreeNAS-11.3-U3.1
Model:
FREENAS-MINI-3.0-XL+

 

[Samuel Tai]

Have you tried zpool destroy -f <name of zombie pool>?

 

[zuluechopapa]

Have you tried zpool destroy -f <name of zombie pool>?

I've not tried anything from the command line yet; the os is foreign enough to me that I figured I should ask before venturing out and making it worse. first round it seemed to just hang the cli interface in addition to the other browser just spinning.

 

[Samuel Tai]

OK, you'll need to reboot before trying the CLI command again.

 

[zuluechopapa]

yeah, that seemed to get it... eventually. a reboot and then from the gui, I could do the export/drop and delete the pool. thanks. I'm 20% more dangerous now.