On 28.01.2010 15:55, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > Cindy Swearingen wrote: > >> On some disks, the default partitioning is not optimal and you have to >> modify it so that the bulk of the disk space is in slice 0. > > Yes, I know, but in this case the second disk indeed is smaller ;-( > So I wonder, should I reinstall the whole thing on this smaller disk and > thren let the bigger second attach? That would mean opening up the case > and all that, because I don't have a DVD player built in. > So I thought I'd go the zfs send|recv way. What are yout thoughts about this? > >> Another thought is that a recent improvement was that you can attach a >> disk that is an equivalent size, but not exactly the same geometry. >> Which OpenSolaris release is this? > > b131 > And this only works if the difference is realy (REALLY) small. :) >
have you considered creating an alternate boot environment on the smaller disk, rebooting into this new boot environment, and then attaching the larger disk after destroy the old boot environment? beadm might do this job for you... _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss