ZFS rename disk path

zpool status
  pool: tank
 state: ONLINE
config:

        NAME                                          STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        tank                                          ONLINE       0     0     0
          mirror-0                                    ONLINE       0     0     0
            usb-SanDisk_SDSSDA-1T00_0123456789CA-0:0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            da3p4                                     ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors
zpool set path=/dev/disk-by-id/sdsdsdsd tank da3p4
zpool set path=/dev/gpt/my_nice_name  

just type `zpool import` and you will see the name that you can import.

if you want to change the mount path use

zpool import -R /other/path poolname

to rename the pool use

zpool import original_name new_name

zfs volume

zfs create -V 10G tank/virtualdisk
mkfs.ext4 /dev/zvol/fourth/virtualdisk
zfs set compression=on fourth/virtualdisk

To create a sparse volume you add the -s parameter so that the previous command would look like this

Sparse = volume with no reservation / Thin provisioning

zfs create -s -V 10G fourth/virtualdisk
mount /dev/zvol/fourth/virtualdisk /mnt

Check available space on the filesystem:

df -h /mnt

Resize

zfs set volsize=20G tank/virtualdisk
resize2fs /dev/zvol/tank/virtualdisk
df -h /mnt
zfs list

As mentioned, even if the volume is empty at the moment, space is preallocated, so it takes 20GB out of our pool. But even though it wasn’t initially created as a sparse volume, we can change it now

zfs set refreservation=none tank/virtualdisk
zfs list

Tip: when using ext4 on a ZFS volume, you may notice that after deleting data in `/mnt`, the volume doesn’t reflect any gains in usable space. This is because, for efficiency, a lot of filesystems like ext4 don’t actually remove the data on disk, they just dereference it. Otherwise, deleting 100GB of information would take a very long time and make your system slow. This means that deleted files continue to exist in random blocks on disk, consequently on the ZFS volume too. To free up space, you would use a command such as `fstrim /mnt` to actually erase unused data in the ext4 filesystem. Only use the tool when needed, as to not “tire” the physical devices unnecessarily (although the numbers are pretty high these days, devices have a limited number of write cycles).

Don’t forget that a lot of the other ZFS-specific features are also available on volumes (e.g snapshots and clones).

Proxmox adding missing LVM thin Pool

When adding another node to the proxmox cluster and the LVM is missing it is not possible to add it correctly over the web interface. But here is how it works.

lsblk
vgcreate pve /dev/sdc
lvcreate -L 30G -n data pve
lvconvert --type thin-pool pve/data

delete the VLM (just in case you need it)

lvchange -an /dev/data/data

stuck at Install_SQLSupport_CPU64_Action

While installing SQL Server 2017 Developer Edition, I got stuck at Install_SQLSupport_CPU64_Action,
this happened to me for the second time, once at work and once at home.
The solution: You will need to browse to this installation path: C:\SQLServer2017Media\<YOUR_SQL_ENU>\1033_ENU_LP\x64\Setup
Then while the setup is stuck at Install_SQLSupport_CPU64_Action run SQLSUPPORT.msi
And follow the installation procedure.
Once installed, run the following command in cmd:
taskkill /F /FI "SERVICES eq msiserver"
The SQL Server setup will continue and succeed.

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