I'm just going to try breaking it down to two Solaris 2 partitions and see where that takes me.
Michelle. On Sat, 2021-05-01 at 08:56 +0100, Michelle wrote: > 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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss