I had an inverse problem, moving rpool to smaller (but faster) disks . In the end, I did a send/receive operation after properly formatting the receiving drives.
I got the procedure from here: https://blogs.oracle.com/mock/entry/how_to_shrink_a_mirrored and it's been working well. My train of thought is that you could: - modify your VBox config for the VM by adding one of the larger disks. - boot from OI live media - do the ZFS send/receive from the old disks to the new ones - shutdown the VM - remove the old disks from the VM - boot from the new ones I'm not sure about this, but I thought the "autoexpand" feature only works on data pools, where you're using the whole disk. Again, my 2รง, hope this helps. Bryan On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 05:54:12 +0200 Jim Klimov <jimkli...@cos.ru> wrote: > On 2013-08-31 03:54, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Oh yes, that is what you explained before... sorry I said that > > backwards ... If I were to detach the smaller discs, then that would > > leave the bigger disk to boot off of... > > Yes, that should also work :) > > > So, maybe I can do something tricky during boot to get to the single > > user, or maintenance more, or whatever its called, long enough to > > attempt increasing the rpool disc size If so, I'm not > > finding it with google, and the openindiana wiki is totally silent on > > it... or so it seems. > > > > Maybe I can edit something at the grub boot screen or such? > > Yes, you can try adding "-s" to the kernel "command-line" in GRUB, > and this should boot you into single-user mode, where "root" is > regarded as an interactive user (with password) and not a role. > > Alternately, you can boot from Live media (installer), then run > # zpool import -R /a -N -f rpool > > This allows you to clean up obsolete snapshots, expand the pool, etc. > > You can mount the filesystem, like > # zfs mount rpool/ROOT/openindiana > > It would likely appear as "/a" in the Live filesystem; then you > can edit files on this pool and perhaps wipe the user's password > or insert the cryptext from some other source (i.e. /etc/shadow > of live media, with known password for "jack:jack" and such). > > When done, don't forget to > # zpool export rpool > > So that you can properly boot off it. > > HTH, > //Jim > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- Bryan N Iotti +39 366 3708436 ironsides.med...@runbox.com _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
