On 26 Nov 2008, at 14:37, Darren J Moffat wrote: > dick hoogendijk wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:51:04 +0000 >> Chris Ridd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 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? > > > Depending on where it is in the VTOC you maybe able to consolidate it > into the pool. Only do this if it as at the END of the area used for > the pool and DON't add it as a new vdev let format(1M) grow the slice.
Rather inconveniently swap starts at cylinder 1, and the pool starts at 262. So no joy there. > As for the boot slice you can't actually do anything about that and it > is unique to x86 (SPARC doesn't have s8 and s9). It feels a lot like "don't start from here" (ie from my 2008.05 install) so I'm doing an install of 101b from CD onto one of the new disks right now. At least format's not showing a swap slice now, yippee. I'll try and get it mirroring afterwards, and then see how much I can extract from my broken disk. Thanks for the clarifications! Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
