Re: [zfs-discuss] Expand zpool capacity

2010-04-26 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Yes, it is helpful in that it reviews all the steps needed to get the replacement disk labeled properly for a root pool and is identical to what we provide in the ZFS docs. The part that is not quite accurate is the reasons for having to relabel the replacement disk with the format utility. If

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expand zpool capacity

2010-04-26 Thread Vladimir L.
It's a litle while ago, but i've found a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpzsSptzmyA";>pretty helpful video on YT how to completely "migrate" from one harddrive to another. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-disc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expand zpool capacity

2010-03-03 Thread Erik Trimble
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 06:59 -0800, Vladimir Leitenberger wrote: > Hmm is it pissoble to upgrade my current zfs version to the new one, without > updating whole system (pkg image-update)? > > The Problem is, i've made 5.1 Gb free space and tried to make a normal > update, but upgrading from 111b

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expand zpool capacity

2010-03-03 Thread Vladimir Leitenberger
Hmm is it pissoble to upgrade my current zfs version to the new one, without updating whole system (pkg image-update)? The Problem is, i've made 5.1 Gb free space and tried to make a normal update, but upgrading from 111b to current 133 is a huge jump. 1050 Mb must be downloaded and the instal

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expand zpool capacity

2010-03-02 Thread Erik Trimble
Daniel Carosone wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 02:04:52PM -0800, Erik Trimble wrote: I don't believe that is true for VM installations like Vladimir's, though I certainly could be wrong. I think you are :-) And you would be correct. No booting from EFI labeled disks for now, an

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expand zpool capacity

2010-03-02 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 02:04:52PM -0800, Erik Trimble wrote: > I don't believe that is true for VM installations like Vladimir's, > though I certainly could be wrong. I think you are :-) > Vladimir - I would say your best option is to simply back up your data > from the OpenSolaris VM, and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expand zpool capacity

2010-03-02 Thread Erik Trimble
Daniel Carosone wrote: For rpool, which has SMI labels and fdisk partitions, you need to expand the size of those, and then ZFS will notice (with or withhout autoexpand, depending on version). -- Dan. I don't believe that is true for VM installations like Vladimir's, though I certainly could be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expand zpool capacity

2010-03-02 Thread Vladimir Leitenberger
How can I do that ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expand zpool capacity

2010-03-02 Thread Daniel Carosone
For rpool, which has SMI labels and fdisk partitions, you need to expand the size of those, and then ZFS will notice (with or withhout autoexpand, depending on version). -- Dan. pgpHNYyaslcOA.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list z

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expand zpool capacity

2010-03-02 Thread Vladimir Leitenberger
Hello Erik, first of all, thanks for quick replay. About using later builds: Right now I'm using a snv_111b bild (osol2009.06 - 5.11 snv_111b i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris). As i already said, I tried to upgrade to a newest dev-release but I wasn't lucky with that (panic at the boot, crushes, etc),

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expand zpool capacity

2010-03-02 Thread Erik Trimble
Vladimir Leitenberger wrote: Hello, Experts. I've got a problem. I'm trying to expand my main zpool (rpool), but don't know how to do that. (i'm 100% newbie in non-windows world) I use Osol under Vmware on Windows. I had a pretty small vhdd -> only 12gb. Yesterday i decided to expand my virtua

[zfs-discuss] Expand zpool capacity

2010-03-01 Thread Vladimir Leitenberger
Hello, Experts. I've got a problem. I'm trying to expand my main zpool (rpool), but don't know how to do that. (i'm 100% newbie in non-windows world) I use Osol under Vmware on Windows. I had a pretty small vhdd -> only 12gb. Yesterday i decided to expand my virtual drive to 20gb. (After severa