[OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

[Michelle]

OK - I appear to be well out of touch.

I booted the installer and went into prompt.

Used format (only 1 x 6TB drive in the machine at this point) to create
a new Solaris 2 partition table and then fdisk'd an all free hog to
partition 1, giving partition 0 100gig. 

I noticed that it must have gone on for 40 odd partitions, and also
there was none of the usual backup and reserved partitions for 2, 8 and
9 as I saw before.

On installation of OI, I selected the drive and got the warning...
"you have chosen a gpt labelled disk. installing onto a gpt labelled
disk will cause the loss of all existing data"

Out of interest I continued through and got the options for whole disk
or partition (MBR) ... the second of which gave me a 2Tb Solaris 2
partition in the list.

I did try F5 to change partition, but it just took me straight back to
the installation menu at the start again.

Things have obviously moved on and I haven't kept pace.

I now have to work out how to do this on a gpt drive.

If anyone has any notes, I'd be grateful.

Michelle.


On Sat, 2021-05-01 at 08:31 +0100, Michelle wrote:
> Well, I looked over my notes and the last time I did this was in
> 2014.
> 
> My preference has always been to run OI on its own drive and have the
> main ZFS tank as a "whole drive" basis. However, thanks to the QNAP,
> that's changed.
> 
> In 2014 I did a test. I took two 40gig drives and did the partitions
> as
> an all free hog on partition 0 ... I was simply testing the ability
> to
> configure rpool on two drives and have both active, so if one failed
> the other would keep running the OS.
> 
> My immediate thought is to have 100gig for the OS on partition 0 and
> the rest on partition 1. Also, turn on auto expand for the tank pool
> and off for the rpool.
> 
> That's my gut feel.
> 
> Anyone got any advice to offer please, before I commit finger to
> keyboard?
> 
> Michelle.
> 
> 
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