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growing disks in macos

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I have 4 disks that are currently :-

320GB macos boot disk
320GB time machine
500GB mirrored data
500GB mirrored data

Running out of space on my mirrored data volume, so just upgrading it with a pair of 1.5TB drives, and so a little bit of a shell game… well I’m cheating and using ZFS as well, so here’s what I’m doing:-

$ diskutil disk1
$ sudo zpool replace disk0s2 disk1s2

wait for resilver to complete

greebo:~ mike$ zpool status
pool: pool1
state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The pool will
continue to function, possibly in a degraded state.
action: Wait for the resilver to complete.
scrub: resilver in progress, 20.39% done, 3h9m to go
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
pool1 ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror ONLINE 0 0 0
disk2s2 ONLINE 0 0 0
replacing ONLINE 0 0 0
disk0s2 ONLINE 0 0 0
disk1s2 ONLINE 0 0 0

Move boot disk onto newly freed up drive using ASR

greebo:~ mike$ sudo asr restore --source / --target /Volumes/greebo/
Password:
Validating target...done
Validating source...done
Validating sizes...done
Copying ....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90

swap original boot drive (320GB) with a new 1.5TB drive and then repeat the zpool replace command

sudo zpool replace disk2s2 disk3s2

wait for the final resilver to complete and then export/import the pool to grow it.


$ sudo zpool export pool1
$ sudo zpool import pool1

Now we have spare space!

# zpool list
NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT
pool1 1.36T 407G 989G 29% ONLINE -

shining a light on spotlight

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Show the status of spotlight on volumes:

$ mdutil -sa
/Shared Items/Public:
Indexing enabled.
/Volumes/Time Machine/Shared Items/Backups:
Indexing and searching disabled.
/Users:
Indexing enabled.
/Volumes/pool1:
Indexing and searching disabled.
/Shared Items/Backups:
Indexing enabled.
/Groups:
Indexing enabled.

I was recieving a few errors when trying to spotlight for applications (well they didn’t appear) – running

$ sudo mdutil -i off /
Error, no index found for volume.

What worked to fix this for me was to move the main volume into the privacy section of spotlight and reboot (though i’d expect restarting fseventd might have the same effect) and then remove the volume from Privacy, 10 minutes later and disk has re-indexed and spotlight is working correctly.