On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 05:32:35AM -0700, Julio wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following partions on my laptop, Inspiron 6000, from fdisk: > > 1 Other OS 0 11 12 0 > 2 EXT LBA 12 2561 2550 26 > 3 Active Solaris2 2562 9728 7167 74 > > First one is for Dell utilities. Second one is NTFS and the third is ZFS. > I am currently using OpenSolaris 2009.06 installed on the partition 3#. > When I installed OpenSolaris I kept the 2# just in case I wanted also to > install Windows, but I have realized I don't need it nevermore! So, I would > like to merge 2# and 3# to get more disk space in OpenSolaris. > > Is it possible to eliminate the NTFS partition and add it to the ZFS > partition?
Possible, but not easy. The Solaris partition must be continuous and at the beginning of the partition. You'd need a tool that could move the data in partition 3 to start at cylinder 12. Since the move distance is less than the size to be moved, you have to do it carefully. I'm not sure what tools are out there that would make that move easy (something like Partition Magic?) You could do it naively with 'dd' (while booted from another disk), but if you crashed in the middle, you'd have problems knowing how to pick up. Better would be to do it in chunks and keep track. Assuming you did that, you could then go through all the hoops to expand the fdisk partition, then expand the VTOC label inside, then make use of the added space. Not something I'd want to attempt without a backup and some testing. -- Darren _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
