[OpenIndiana-discuss] Formating tricks

[Reginald Beardsley]

I'm assuming you want to use Microsoft disk partitions for non-Solaris uses.

Use fdisk to create the partitions you want interavtively

use format to create slices in the Solaris partition interactively

then use zpool to create the mirror

Both fdisk and format have reasonably good help information when run interactively.  Obviously don't expect to preserve data on the disk doing this.

FWIW on my backup server I selected 100% solaris in fdisk and then created 2 slices, s0 and s1, with format.  The s0 slice is 100 GB for a mirrored rpool and the rest of the disk (~1.9 TB) in s1 is used for a RAIDZ pool.

Reg


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On Sat, 7/19/14, Brogyányi József <brogyi at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formating tricks
 To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
 Date: Saturday, July 19, 2014, 11:26 AM
 
 I've seen on the Internet the next
 trick but it was not so clear for me. 
 The rpool mirror not occupy the whole disk.
 The short question is how to do that?
 When I uses the whole disk the next codes are working:
 
 pfexec fdisk -B c6t0d0p0 ### I think "-B" is not good in
 this case.
 pfexec prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0s2 | pfexec fmthard -s -
 /dev/rdsk/c6t0d0s2
 pfexec zpool attach -f rpool c5t0d0s0 c6t0d0s0
 pfexec installgrub -fm /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 
 /dev/rdsk/c6t0d0s0
 
 So how to modify above code if I'd like to use 3
 partitions?
 s0 is for rpool mirror
 p2 for whatever you want
 p3 for whatever you want
 
 Please correct my thoughts. Thanks.
 Brogyi
 
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