Hi Jan,

I tried out what you say long ago, but zfs fails on pool creation.

This is, when I issue the zpool create trunk /dev/dsk/c9d0p3 the command 
fails saying that there's no such file or directory. And the disk is 
correct!!

What I think is that /dev/dsk/c9d0p3 is a symbolic name used by FSWpart, 
and it's not a valid device name for zpool.

Thanks anyway,
Antonio

Jan Hlodan escribi?:
> Antonio wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> First of all let me say that, after a few days using it (and after several 
>> *years* of using Linux daily),  I'm delighted with OpenSolaris 8.11. It's 
>> gonna be the OS of my choice.
>>
>> The fact is that I installed it in a partition of 16Gb in my hard disk and 
>> that I'd like to add another partition to the system (I have different 
>> partitions with Linux and Windows and some others).
>>
>> So the questions are:
>>
>> 1.- How do I add an existing partition to OpenSolaris? (Should I change the 
>> partition type or something? Shall I "grow" ZFS or shall I mount the extra 
>> partition somewhere else?)
>>
>>   
> yes. You can create a new zpool from your free/spare partition.
> I had the same problem. I wanted to use Linux partition as a mirror.
> So here is how to:
> Follow this blog -
> http://blogs.sun.com/pradhap/entry/mount_ntfs_ext2_ext3_in
> * install FSWpart and FSWfsmisc
> * run prtpart (find out your disk ID)
> * figure out partitions ID: prtpart "disk ID" -ldevs
> * create zpool from linux partition  e.g. zpool create trunk /dev/dsk/c9d0p3
> * check it out: zpool list or zpool status
> 
> 
>> 2.- Would you please recommend a good introduction to Solaris/OpenSolaris? 
>> I'm used to Linux and I'd like to get up to speed with OpenSolaris.
>>   
> sure, OpenSolaris Bible :)
> http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/two_more_chapters_from_the
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jan Hlodan
> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Antonio
>>   
> 

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