Am 22.01.2014 10:01, schrieb Chris Stankevitz: > Hello, > > My / (root) lives on /dev/sdb1. My /dev/sda has no partitions and no data > except for what I presume is the mbr written by lilo. [history: sdb is an > SSD and I never wanted to use the slow sda] > > I have been playing with ZFS on a USB drive and I am ready to create a > zpool on /dev/sda. > > ZFS recommends that I give it the entire drive (partitioning discouraged). > In this case I hesitate to give ZFS my entire drive as I worry ZFS will > clobber my MBR rendering my system unbootable. > > Are my fears warranted? If so, what should I do about it? If you > recommend that I partition sda, what parameters do I used to avoid a > clobber? >
I don't know if creating a ZFS volume on /dev/sda kill break your mbr. But why don't you install lilo on /dev/sdb ? You change change the boot order in BIOS after that.
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