On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha <l...@fajar.net> wrote: >> After my install completes on the smaller mirror, how do I access the 500G >> mirror where I saved my data? If I simply create a tank mirror using those >> drives will it recognize there's data there and make it accessible? Or will >> it destroy my data? Thanks. > > CREATING a pool on the drive will definitely destroy the data. > > IMHO the easiest way is to: > - boot using live CD > - import the 500G pool, renaming it to something else other than rpool > (e.g. zpool import rpool datapool) > - export the pool > - install on the new disk
... and just is case it wasn't obvious already, after the installation is complete, you can simply do a "zpool import datapool" (or whatever you rename the old pool to) to access the old data. -- Fajar _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
