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This short tutorial describes how to expand mirror volume by replacing disk drives by larger. For this example I used FreeNAS installed on VirtualBox with two 10GB drives (10GB total in mirror mode). The existing disk volume will be extended to 20GB by replacing of both disks by larger.

First of all go to ‘Storage’ section.

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In this case we have 6 GB used (78% of volume space is used). Let’s try to expand volume from 10GB to 20GB (by replacing 10GB by 20GB disks).

Select ‘test-volume’ and click ‘Volume status’ button on the bottom of page. You will see current status of the volume including disk drives.

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