[OpenIndiana-discuss] Install / Partition Help

[Mark Wallbank]

I was thinking mirror for os raidz1 for data; it's a dell pe with 3 sas drives.

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On 2 Mar 2012, at 16:07, Andrew Gabriel <illumos at cucumber.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Wallbank, Mark wrote:
>> Hi
>> I am trying to install openindiana (x86) and would like to customise the partitions/slices. I would like to have a solaris2 fdisk for the whole of the disk but when it comes to the format partitions I would like to have about 10 to 30 Gig at the start of the disk for the os; then setup another slice for the data to be shared, however the installer only lets me set one value. I have tried setting up the partitions first by hand but there doesn't appear to be an option to leave the fs intact and point it at a slice (format partition). Hope this makes sense. Any ideas..?
>>
>
> I think the installer will use all of the Solaris2 primary fdisk
> partition for the rpool, without going you any ability to configure that.
>
> What you can do (at least in the Oracle installer, which I suspect will
> be the same in the OI installer) is to create additional primary fdisk
> partitions, and these can be used directly for additional zpools, or
> swap devices, or dump devices, etc. (which you'll have to create after
> installation). You should not have more than one primary fdisk partition
> of the same type on a disk, so choose any partition type which Solaris
> and all other software on the system isn't going to treat specially
> ("other" is OK, but if you want more than one extra, you may have to
> pick another one too). When specifying the device nodes, the four
> primary fdisk partition device names are *p[1-4] (with *p0 being the
> whole disk irrespective of any partitioning - don't use that by mistake,
> and don't use the Solaris2 one which has the VToC slices in it (normally
> *p1)).
>
> There's a separate discussion to be had about how sensible it is (or
> isn't) to have more than one zpool on a disk, and it certainly defeats
> some of the aims of ZFS.
>
> --
> Andrew
>
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