[oi-dev] Install into existing zfs pool on a GPT partition

[Atiq Rahman]

Thanks Udo. It's for single user.

Best,

Atiq

On Fri, Sep 5, 2025, 2:13 AM Udo Grabowski (IMKASF) <udo.grabowski at kit.edu>
wrote:

> On 05/09/2025 10:59, Atiq Rahman wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > So I tried this tonight (rsync OI from a whole disk installation).
> > Everything
> > (the parts that usually work on my system except for graphics, network,
> > etc.)
> > seemed to go smoothly. BSD Loader booted the kernel without errors.
> >
> > Except after rsync and reboot, my home pool won't automount. Since I put
> > /export (/home is inside that) on a separate dataset, I get it. I had to
> > manually import it. However, the system is supposed to initialize my home
> > dir. That wouldn't happen due to the pool not auto-importing.
> >
> > Any thoughts on getting the automount behavior back?
> >
> > root pool:
> > spool              38.0G  85.0G  34.5K  /mnt/spool
> > spool/ROOT         5.99G  85.0G    24K  legacy
> > spool/ROOT/OI      5.99G  85.0G  5.73G  /mnt
> > spool/ROOT/OI/var   269M  85.0G   269M  /mnt/var
> > spool/dump         15.5G  85.0G  15.5G  -
> > spool/swap         16.5G   102G    12K  -
> >
> > home / data pool:
> >
> > $ sudo zfs list
> > NAME             USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
> > matrix          2.15M   123G    24K  none
> > matrix/export    291K   123G   291K  /mnt/export
> > ...
>
> Seems home does no longer have its own zfs. Do it like this:
> cd /mnt/export;mv home home_d;zfs create matrix/export/home;
> # home should appear empty besides home_d
> rsync -av home_d/ home/; rm -rf home_d;
> zfs set canmount=on matrix/export/home
> # check that /home does not exist already
> zfs set mountpoint=/home matrix/export/home
> # /home should appear with your user dir inside
> Do the analog steps if your user dir under /home should also
> be its own zfs (recommendable for more than one user).
>
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