Hi Antonio, did you try to recreate this partition e.g. with Gparted? Maybe is something wrong with this partition. Can you also post what "prtpart "disk ID" -ldevs" says?
Regards, Jan Hlodan Antonio wrote: > 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 >>> >>
