[OpenIndiana-discuss] Small(ish) spare hard disk

[Jonathan Adams]

Thanks, I did just that last night :)

On 15 October 2015 at 17:39, Nikola M <minikola at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/14/15 11:01 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
>
>> I have my old hard drive (80Gb) which has dual boot OI/Ubuntu on it ...
>>
>> The Ubuntu has died, the OI is not in the greatest shape, but has a lot of
>> my useful code and apps already installed in it.
>>
>> I replaced the drive (I could mount the old one to get the files off, but
>> I
>> couldn't boot it well) with a 1TB, but that's beside the point.
>>
>> I'm looking for opinions on how best to go ahead with OI on the old disk.
>> Can I destroy the Ubuntu on it, and resize the OI to fill the rest of the
>> disk, or am I best off cutting my losses, downloading a new OI Hipster
>> iso,
>> and installing a fresh build?
>>
>> You won't be able to expand zpool to the whole disk if it occupies only
> slice of the disk.
> (thanks to never coming 'block pointer rewrite' feature in OpenZFS)
>
> You can reformat drive using whole disk install.
> There is also manual install procedure if you want to call it other name
> then 'rpool'
> if it is now external or secondary drive and you want to use it in the
> same time when booted from main drive that has 'rpool' on it.
> http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Advanced+-+Creating+an+rpool+manually
>
> I don't remember right but I think that OI installed can not rename
> installing pool to boot from, during install, but can be doen manually.
>
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