Re: [zfs-discuss] Want to try ZFS, but "format" got message

2006-08-18 Thread Xinfeng Liu
Thank you Sean. That would be wonderful using files. -Xinfeng Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland ??: Xinfeng Liu stated: < Hi, < < I'm trying ZFS on my laptop (Solaris 10 6/06 installed), I want to assign 2 slices for using ZFS. But when I type "format", I got message. You've pro

Re: [zfs-discuss] Want to try ZFS, but "format" got message

2006-08-18 Thread Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland
Xinfeng Liu stated: < Hi, < < I'm trying ZFS on my laptop (Solaris 10 6/06 installed), I want to assign 2 slices for using ZFS. But when I type "format", I got message. You've probably got all the disk over to solaris and have things mounted. To play around with zfs on a laptop try usi

[zfs-discuss] Want to try ZFS, but "format" got message

2006-08-18 Thread Xinfeng Liu
Hi, I'm trying ZFS on my laptop (Solaris 10 6/06 installed), I want to assign 2 slices for using ZFS. But when I type "format", I got message. Although "prtvtoc" can give the drive type info, but I couldn't set the drive type because the root filesystem is mounted on the drive. Any sugges