2009/10/15 Darren J Moffat <darr...@opensolaris.org> > Julio wrote: > >> Thanks to all for the replies. >> >> I got a lot of stuff configured and running fine, so I am not willing to >> reinstall for now :-). >> I also thought in Partition Magic but it seems not to manage ZFS. So, I >> think I will try to format the NTFS partition to ZFS and then add it to the >> pool. >> > > If this is your root pool you can't make anything other than a mirror. > > If the free space at the start of the disk before the existing ZFS fdisk > partition is the same size or larger than the ZFS one you should able to get > the following to work: >
I'm newbie, but doesn't provided output from fdisk (see below) show that the NTFS partition is smaller (26% vs 74%)? In the worst case... isn't there another option? Something like - create new pool, "zfs send R...|zfs recv.." old root pool to new pool then "installgrub" and "bootadm update-archive -R". See the link below... http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide#ZFS_Root_Pool_Recovery > 1. Add the current NFS partition as a mirror of the existing ZFS one: > eg zpool attach rpool c0d0s0 c0d0p1 > 1.1 Add a boot block with installgrub to the old NTFS side of the mirror > 1.2 For good measure run bootadm update-archive (shouldn't be needed but > worth doing just to be sure) > > 2. Wait until 'zpool status' tells you that the resilver is complete. > > 3. Now detach the original ZFS fdisk partition leaving the one that > was the old NTFS partition > eg zpool deatch rpool c0d0s0 > > 4. Now boot from LiveCD and repartition (just fdisk alone should be enough) > to delete the old ZFS partition and make the old NTFS one the size of the > old NTFS one and the ZFS one together. Making very sure it starts in > exactly the same place the old NTFS one did. Making sure it is tagged > Solaris2 not NTFS. > > 5. Reboot the system and the ZFS pool should have expanded to the size of > the original two partitions. > > If it hasn't run 'zpool autoexpand=on rpool' > > Note that this will only work if the original NTFS partition that is before > the ZFS partition in the fdisk layout is at least the same size as the > current ZFS fdisk partition for rpool. If it is smaller then this won't > work and shouldn't be attempted (though step 1 will fail). > > -- > Darren J Moffat > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
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