[OpenIndiana-discuss] Formating tricks

[Brogyányi József]

Thanks Reginald your answer. I hope Jim read my questions and he'll 
answer me because he knows exactly what I'd like.
BR
Brogyi

Number  Start       End         Size          Type        File system  Flags
  1             8354kB  33.7GB   33.7GB    primary  solaris   boot
  2             33.7GB  39.2GB   5417MB  primary
  3             39.2GB  100GB    61.1GB    primary

config:

         NAME                                            STATE READ 
WRITE CKSUM
           pool ONLINE       0     0     0
           raidz1-0 ONLINE       0     0     0
             c3t50014EE2B3C27E80d0     ONLINE       0     0     0
             c3t50014EE2B3C2749Bd0     ONLINE       0     0     0
             c3t50014EE25E6CE061d0     ONLINE       0     0     0
             c3t50014EE20917A8B4d0    ONLINE       0     0     0
         logs
           mirror-1                   ONLINE       0     0     0
             c3t5000C5002FF029D5d0p2  ONLINE       0     0     0
             c3t5000C5002FF02451d0p2  ONLINE       0     0     0
         cache
           c3t5000C5002FF029D5d0p3    ONLINE       0     0     0
           c3t5000C5002FF02451d0p3    ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

   pool: rpool
  state: ONLINE
   scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h1m with 0 errors on Mon Jan 27 13:19:07 2014
config:

         NAME                         STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         rpool                        ONLINE       0     0     0
           mirror-0                   ONLINE       0     0     0
             c3t5000C5002FF029D5d0s0  ONLINE       0     0     0
             c3t5000C5002FF02451d0s0  ONLINE       0     0     0
2014.07.19. 18:43 keltezéssel, Reginald Beardsley via 
openindiana-discuss írta:
> I'm assuming you want to use Microsoft disk partitions for non-Solaris uses.
>
> Use fdisk to create the partitions you want interavtively
>
> use format to create slices in the Solaris partition interactively
>
> then use zpool to create the mirror
>
> Both fdisk and format have reasonably good help information when run interactively.  Obviously don't expect to preserve data on the disk doing this.
>
> FWIW on my backup server I selected 100% solaris in fdisk and then created 2 slices, s0 and s1, with format.  The s0 slice is 100 GB for a mirrored rpool and the rest of the disk (~1.9 TB) in s1 is used for a RAIDZ pool.
>
> Reg
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Sat, 7/19/14, Brogyányi József <brogyi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formating tricks
>   To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
>   Date: Saturday, July 19, 2014, 11:26 AM
>   
>   I've seen on the Internet the next
>   trick but it was not so clear for me.
>   The rpool mirror not occupy the whole disk.
>   The short question is how to do that?
>   When I uses the whole disk the next codes are working:
>   
>   pfexec fdisk -B c6t0d0p0 ### I think "-B" is not good in
>   this case.
>   pfexec prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0s2 | pfexec fmthard -s -
>   /dev/rdsk/c6t0d0s2
>   pfexec zpool attach -f rpool c5t0d0s0 c6t0d0s0
>   pfexec installgrub -fm /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2
>   /dev/rdsk/c6t0d0s0
>   
>   So how to modify above code if I'd like to use 3
>   partitions?
>   s0 is for rpool mirror
>   p2 for whatever you want
>   p3 for whatever you want
>   
>   Please correct my thoughts. Thanks.
>   Brogyi
>   
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