[OpenIndiana-discuss] redo size of rpool

[Harry Putnam]

Bryan N Iotti <ironsides.medvet at runbox.com> writes:

> I had an inverse problem, moving rpool to smaller (but faster) disks
> . In the end, I did a send/receive operation after properly formatting
> the receiving drives.
>
> I got the procedure from here:
> https://blogs.oracle.com/mock/entry/how_to_shrink_a_mirrored
>
> and it's been working well. My train of thought is that you could:
>
> - modify your VBox config for the VM by adding one of the larger disks.
> - boot from OI live media
> - do the ZFS send/receive from the old disks to the new ones
> - shutdown the VM
> - remove the old disks from the VM
> - boot from the new ones
>
> I'm not sure about this, but I thought the "autoexpand" feature only
> works on data pools, where you're using the whole disk.

Well that would be a good thing know. If I followed my plan it would
end up not working... erk.

So does the send/receive approach allow the rpool to expand into
the larger disc providing the solaris2 partition is the whole
disc?