On 26 Nov 2008, at 13:12, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:51:04 +0000 > Chris Ridd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm replacing the disk with my rpool with a mirrored pool, and >> wondering how best to do that. >> >> The disk I'm replacing is partitioned with root on s0, swap on s1 >> and boot on s8, which is what the original 2008.05 installer created >> for me. > > Are you sure about this? OS2008-05 uses the whole disk as a ZFS and > within that rpool creates the seperate filesystems (swap/dump,..)
Yep. > I've never seen a ZFS system on seperate slices. Slices are things > from > the past ;-) Maybe this is just a hangover from my original 2008.05 install? >> to mirror the root. The -f is to stop zpool whining about s0 >> overlapping s2. > > If I use a disk for a root pool I create just one slice on it (s0). > Nothing else. This is needed because booting of EFI labeled disks is > not spuurted (yet). Nod, I had to use format -e to force an SMI label. >> But what do I do with that swap slice? Should I ditch it and create >> an rpool/swap area? Do I still need a boot slice? > > ALL parts are created within the one rpool. Hm, so it might be better to do a new install onto the new disk with whatever slices the installer wants to set up, and then migrate the filesystems across from the old rpool. So where does installgrub put the boot bits? Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
