[OpenIndiana-discuss] Moving /var and/or /usr to own zfs filesystem

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 04:45:18PM -0400, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
> This is somewhat embarassing.
> 
> I know this is possible, because I have an oi 151a6 machine running
> with /var and /usr as saparate filesystems on the zfs rpool. However I
> did it I can't remember and can't find whatever instructions I used,
> because I'm trying again on another install and failing.
> 
> I started moving just /var. No matter what, it doesn't mount the zfs
> filesystems before running filesystem/minimal , so /var isn't mounted
> and it fails. I did the move by booting from install media,
> importing the rpool, creating /var.new, mv /var /var.old , and then
> change the zfs mountpoint of /var.new No dice, on reboot it doesn't
> mount.

I'm guessing that you remember to set the zfs mountpoint as "legacy" and
the added it to /etc/vfstab?

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