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 <drive type unknown> message.
You've probably got all the disk over to solaris and have things mounted. To play around with zfs on a laptop try using files instead, eg: mkfile 256m file1 mkfile 256m file2 zpool create `pwd`/file* etc... Regards, < < 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 suggestions to fix this problem? < < Thanks in advance, < Xinfeng < < < This message posted from opensolaris.org < _______________________________________________ < zfs-discuss mailing list < zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org < http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Sean. . _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
