[zfs-discuss] root pool expansion

2010-07-28 Thread Gary Gendel
Right now I have a machine with a mirrored boot setup. The SAS drives are 43Gs and the root pool is getting full. I do a backup of the pool nightly, so I feel confident that I don't need to mirror the drive and can break the mirror and expand the pool with the detached drive. I understand

Re: [zfs-discuss] root pool expansion

2010-07-28 Thread Mark J Musante
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Gary Gendel wrote: Right now I have a machine with a mirrored boot setup. The SAS drives are 43Gs and the root pool is getting full. I do a backup of the pool nightly, so I feel confident that I don't need to mirror the drive and can break the mirror and expand the pool

Re: [zfs-discuss] root pool expansion

2010-07-28 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Gary, If your root pool is getting full, you can replace the root pool disk with a larger disk. My recommendation is to attach the replacement disk, let the replacement disk resilver, install the boot blocks, and then detach the smaller disk. The system will see the expanded space