Cindy Swearingen wrote: > Chris, > > I agree that your best bet is to replace the 128-mb device with > another device, fix the emcpower2a manually, and then replace it > back. I don't know these drives at all, so I'm unclear about the > fix it manually step. > > Because your pool isn't redundant, you can't use zpool offline > or detach. > > I'm curious if the capacity of this pool is 128mb x 3? If so, > then I think you could replace the emcpower2a with a 128mb file.
It should be 125G+125G+128M. I think this is a good idea, just create this file somewhere outside of your pool. Hth, Victor > Then, replace it back. Like this: > > 0. Backup your data. > > 1. Create the file. > # mkdir /files > # mkfile 128m /files/file1 > > 2. Replace the device with the file: > > # zpool replace mypool emcpower2a /files/file1 > > 3. fix the emcpower2a drive > > 4. Replace the file with the device > > # zpool replace mypool /files/file1 emcpower2a > > I have no experience with these drives, but in theory, this should work. > I'm also wondering if you should make the 128mb file slightly larger to > account for any differences in sizing of a UFS file and the emcpower > drive. > > Cindy > > Krzys wrote: > >> yes, I was thinking about this but I wanted to just remove the whole 128mb >> disk >> and then use format to repartition this complete disk to give it full >> capacity... I have all the disks setup this way so I wanted to be consistent >> with it but its not letting remove that disk at all from the pool...128mb is >> not >> much to waste and I am not concern about it but as I said I wanted to be >> consistent and thats the reason why I wanted to remove the other disk... >> >> Maybe what I can do is replace it with a different device if I can find it >> and >> then replace that disk with it and then partition it to my need and then >> replace >> the temporary disk with this new repartitioned disk... I thought there might >> be >> easier way to do it... >> >> Thanks for help. >> >> Chris >> >> >> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Mark J Musante wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Krzys wrote: >>> >>> >>>> everything is great but I've made a mistake and I would like to remove >>>> emcpower2a from my pool and I cannot do that... >>>> >>>> Well the mistake that I made is that I did not format my device >>>> correctly so instead of adding 125gig I added 128meg >>>> >>>> >>> You can't remove it directly, but you certainly can *replace* it with a >>> larger drive. If this is critical data, then obviously back up first, and >>> test these steps on alternate storage. >>> >>> >>> >>>> Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks >>>> 0 root wm 0 - 63 128.00MB (64/0/0) 262144 >>>> 1 swap wu 64 - 127 128.00MB (64/0/0) 262144 >>>> 2 backup wu 0 - 63997 125.00GB (63998/0/0) 262135808 >>>> 3 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 >>>> 4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 >>>> 5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 >>>> 6 usr wm 128 - 63997 124.75GB (63870/0/0) 261611520 >>>> 7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 >>>> >>>> >>> The easiest thing would be to replace s0 with s6. >>> >>> You'll be 128mb shy of the full disk, but that's a drop in the bucket. >>> The command would be: >>> zpool replace mypool emcpower2a emcpowerXX >>> where XX is the name of slice 6. You should see the new size right away. >>> >>> Another option would be to use a different drive, formatted to give you >>> the entire disk, and then do a replace of emcpower2a with emcpower3a. >>> Then you could repartition 2 properly, and repalce 3 with 2. >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> markm >>> _______________________________________________ >>> zfs-discuss mailing list >>> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >>> >>> >>> !DSPAM:122,472733c5131049287932! >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
