If you weren't running ZFS I would have suggested the following: - boot the system from CD - manually partition the new disk - mount each slice on the new disk on a temporary mount point then ufsdump each corresponding slice on the old disk and pipe it to ufsrestore in the temporary mount point. (eg cd /tmp/s0; ufsdump 0f - /dev/dsk/c0d0s0 | ufsrestore rf -; rm restoresymtable)
However, I have not yet played with ZFS and can't say whether it would work with it... Mausul. -----Original Message----- From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of UNIX admin Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 5:35 AM To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] output from prtvtoc You're stuck. There's no clean-cut way to do what you want; you can't copy the VTOC over, because of the geometry mismatch. The way to do what you want is with a combination of find(1) and cpio(1): Assuming that the 500GB disk is mounted on /mnt, ( find / -mount -local -depth -print | cpio -pvdmu /mnt 1> /tmp/cpio.log) 2> /tmp/cpio.err will copy the files over; lathe, rinse, and repeat for every other filesystem you might have. You'll also need to install the boot block on the 500GB disk, see installboot(1M) on sparc, respectively installgrub(1M) on the i86pc. In other words, this is such a messy operation which has to be performed with the utmost attention to detail, that it's *cheaper* to just back up the data you need, if you have any, and reinstall the operating system. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
