Hi Erik, Thanks for your instruction, but let me dig into details.
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Erik Trimble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thus, you could do this: > > (1) Install system A No problem, :-) > (2) hook USB drive to A, and mount it at /mnt I created a zfs pool, and mount it at /tank, now my system looks like the following: # zpool list NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT rpool 147G 14.0G 133G 9% ONLINE - tank 149G 94K 149G 0% ONLINE - # zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT rpool 14.0G 131G 56.5K /rpool [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17.5K - 55K - rpool/ROOT 3.45G 131G 18K /rpool/ROOT rpool/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 0 - 18K - rpool/ROOT/opensolaris 3.45G 131G 2.54G legacy rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 63.2M - 2.22G - rpool/ROOT/opensolaris/opt 862M 131G 862M /opt rpool/ROOT/opensolaris/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 72K - 3.60M - rpool/export 10.5G 131G 19K /export rpool/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 15K - 19K - rpool/export/home 10.5G 131G 10.5G /export/home rpool/export/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 19K - 21K - tank 89.5K 147G 1K /tank > (3) use 'zfs send tank/root > /mnt/root' to save off the root ZFS > filesystem to the USB drive "zfs send" always needs a snapshot, So I made a snapshot of rpool. #zfs snapshot -r [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here, "zfs send tank/root > /mnt/root" doesn't work, "zfs send" can't accept a directory as an output. So I use zfs send and zfs receive: # zfs send -R [EMAIL PROTECTED] | zfs receive -dF tank cannot mount '/opt': directory is not empty Is there anything I missed or I did wrong? Thanks, -Aubrey _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
