Bryan N Iotti <ironsides.med...@runbox.com> writes: > 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.
Well that would be a good thing know. If I followed my plan it would end up not working... erk. So does the send/receive approach allow the rpool to expand into the larger disc providing the solaris2 partition is the whole disc? _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
