Sanjay Nadkarni <[email protected]> writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> If I install a new IDE disk into a freshly installed 2008.11 (101b)
>> that resides on a partitioned disc. The new install claiming 25GB
>> leaving 35gb more I wanted to get into a raidz pool.
>>
>>
> I am not following here. Are you installing 2008.11 to an IDE disk ?
When I installed osol-11 101b the IDE disk was partitioned 45% for
Solaris2 55% other.
Later installed (mechanically into box) another IDE disk that had
pre-exisiting partitions
>> What do I really need to do to create a raidz pool using this disk? I
>> don't mean the mechanics of creating the zpool, that seems well
>> documented.
I'm really asking about the remaining undefined space on install disk
AND the new disk with pre-existing conditions. That is, how to
utilize all that space in raidz.
> Is this going to be the root pool or a secondary pool. raidz as root
> pool is not supported using 2008.11.
Secondary Root is on rpool
>> I mean like if the disk has partitions from another os?
>>
>> Do I need to `format/fdisk' and remove the partitions? Then create a
>> single partition for the whole disk?
>>
> This might be needed.
That could apply to the new disk but what about the remaining space on
the original disk?
format sees it as: c3d0
(format/fdisk)
Total disk size is 7297 cylinders
Cylinder size is 16065 (512 byte) blocks
Cylinders
Partition Status Type Start End Length %
========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== ===
1 Active Solaris2 1 3276 3276 45
2 Other OS 3277 7296 4020 55
Patition 1 holds osol-11 install.
> Disk naming convention in Solaris is as follows:
[...] Thanks for the brief outline
> A zpool can take the entire disk by using cxdyp0 or cxdy (the p0 is
> implied) as the disk name. In this case zfs will place a GPT label
> (EFI spec). Alternatively one can also allocate all the disk to one
> partition, place a VTOC on it.
So partition 2 above is not usable in a raidz configuration then?
I wanted to create a storage space using raidz1 and zfs.
My goal is to utilize as much disk space as I can for that storage
space.
How can I best utilize partition 2 above into that goal?
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