Edwin Goei wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Edwin Goei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to install SXDE 1/08 into a VMware Fusion virtual machine on my >>> mac. When I run the new installer, it appears that I can "Use the whole >>> disk" but after the install, the disk has multiple partitions anyway. >>> Instead, I'd like to have a single partition for "root" and other required >>> partitions like "swap" and "boot". The reason is because I need to install >>> software in "/opt" and "/export" which will all go into the root partition >>> which isn't big enough. Any ideas? >>> >>> >> >> Did you use the new installer in SXDE? >> >> If so, shouldn't you have just one main partition with several zfs >> filesystems? >> >> > I did use the new installer. I'm not sure how to tell the FS type, but > I looked in /etc/vfstab and see UFS for "/", "/export/home", and > "/second/root". I don't see anything about ZFS. As a workaround, I am > planning to modify vfstab so that I move the mount point of > "/export/home" to "/export" instead. Rather than do that, remove export/home from /etc/vfstab and create a ZFS pool "export" on that slice.
> The next question is how do I have that setting take effect preferably > without rebooting. I tried "umount /export/home" but that fails :-(. > Fails how? Ian _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
