[OpenIndiana-discuss] Migrating to smaller root pool

John D Groenveld jdg117 at elvis.arl.psu.edu
Tue Apr 1 13:42:24 UTC 2014


In message <1396150029.81215.YahooMailBasic at web161504.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>, Regi
nald Beardsley writes:
>I'm trying to migrate to a smaller root pool so I can put /export in a RAIDZ1 
>and use a 3 way mirror for the root pool.  So far I've been soundly thrashed. 
> I copied the rpool contents over to npool w/ "zfs send -R" and installed grub
>. When I boot the new disk, grub comes up with the menu, but then complains it
> can't find the filesystem.  I used a dedicated Solaris disk and a 100 GB s0 s
>lice.

# beadm create -p npool newbe
# beadm activate newbe

I then needed to migrate any other filesystems and volumes outside
the legacy BE.
I booted the new BE in single user and used it as an opportunity
to prune my filesystems and resize swap and dump.

John
groenveld at acm.org



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