I tried it and when I boot into single user and did a format, the increase in size was not seen.
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Nathan Kroenert <[email protected]> wrote: > IIRC, I did this ages ago on a box I was playing with. > > There was some fooling around to do though... as ZFS boot disks use slices, > and an SMI label, not an EFI label and whole disk... > > I vaguely recall changing the underlying volsize with the LDOM down, then > net-booting single user, using format to alter the size of slice 0, then > rebooting all the way back up, and the zpool auto-expanded to use the rest > of the disk. > > And - if you are using mirrors, you won't see the extra space until both > sides are done. > > I'd be inclined to spin up a baby test LDOM and give it a crack - but be > sure that you get Oracle's buy-in to be sure they won't arbitrarily decide > that it's not a supported procedure. > > You might also need to watch out for the auto-expand property for the zpool > - depending on what Solaris you are running, you might see different > behaviour... > > Cheers! > > Nathan. > > > > On 8/12/2010 7:42 AM, Tony MacDoodle wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> We are using ZFS volumes as guest domain boot disks and was wondering >> if its possible to increase the size of the boot drives without >> rebuilding? >> >> Thanks >> _______________________________________________ >> ldoms-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ > ldoms-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss >
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