Hi guys, I have just installed open solaris 2009.6 on my server using a 250G laptop drive (using the entire drive).
I now want to add another [u]identical[/u] 250G laptop drive to the rpool to create a mirror. The have been no other changes to hardware (x86 - intel entry level server board). All the instructions I have seen indicate i should format the drive with a 100% solaris partition...eg here http://darkstar-solaris.blogspot.com/2008/09/zfs-root-mirror.html The problem is, when I format the drive using "format", "fdisk" and 100% solaris - yes and then look at the drive size with "format", I see that t[b]he "new" drive is one cylinder less than the current rpool drive[/b] (C8t0d0). eg existing rpool drive c8t0d0 = 39999 cyl newly formatted drive c8t1d0 = 3999[b]8[/b] cyl (not actual numbers as I am not infront of the server at the moment - just an example) So, naturally when I run ...prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c8t1d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c8t1d0S2, it complains about the size of the disk. What am I doing wrong? How can I get the second drive c8t1d0 to format to exactly the same size as the original? I am a newbie to opensolaris so please provide step by step instructions as I have tried to find the answer myself all day but can not. The closest i have come is a statement that I need to manually set the partition size...but how? I also have an 250G desktop drive that I tested and it behaves exactly the same (ie. formats to one less cylinder). Thanks. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
