Why don't you keep a SINGLE Solaris partition, but put 2 slices on it? One for ZFS, and the other for your data.
That way you just need to preserve your s1 for instance, and install on s0 Mike Patrick Arnoux wrote: > To the Solaris Dev Team, > > This is the first time I have installed Solaris with ZFS and I must > say Kudos to the team. I don't normally > wear a hat, but I'll put one on just so I can take it off to you guys. > > I don't multiboot (why bother when you have VirtualBox) and therefore > the whole drive is allocated to Solaris, but > separating the OS from my Data is kind of sacrosanct. I guess you know > where I am going with this. > > When I need to re-install Solaris and I have to set the second logical > partition where the Data zpool resides to "other" > and no longer "Solaris" because the installer will not allow me to > have two Solaris partitions on the drive, the installer > will thankfully not blow away the data, but it will muck the MBR and > upon reboot, you then need to fdisk it back > to Solaris and import the zpool back in. > Not really very elegant. > Like I said, minor complaint. but if the partition type is "other", > why not leave the MBR alone or better yet, > allow multiple Solaris partitions on the drive. > > not a rant mind you, minor, minor. > > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3249 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/attachments/20090327/d6a1ee2a/attachment.bin>
