Change the new partition type to something than none of the OS's on the
system will know anything about, so they don't make any invalid
assumptions about what might be in it. Then use the appropriate
partition device node, /dev/dsk/c7t0d0p4 (assuming it's the 4th primary
FDISK partition).
Multiple zpools on one disk is not going to be good for performance if
you use both together. There may be some way to grow the existing
Solaris partition into the spare space without destroying the contents
and then growing the zpool into the new space, but I haven't tried this
with FDISK partitions, so I don't know if it works without damaging the
existing contents. (I have done it with slices, and it does work in that
case.)
Bill Werner wrote:
So when I built my new workstation last year, I partitioned the one and only
disk in half, 50% for Windows, 50% for 2009.06. Now, I'm not using Windows,
so I'd like to use the other half for another ZFS pool, but I can't figure out
how to access it.
I have used fdisk to create a second Solaris2 partition, did a re-con reboot,
but format still only shows the 1 available partition. How do I used the
second partition?
selecting c7t0d0
Total disk size is 30401 cylinders
Cylinder size is 16065 (512 byte) blocks
Cylinders
Partition Status Type Start End Length %
========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== ===
1 Other OS 0 4 5 0
2 IFS: NTFS 5 1917 1913 6
3 Active Solaris2 1917 14971 13055 43
4 Solaris2 14971 30170 15200 50
format
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c7t0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 13052 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/p...@0,0/pci1028,2...@1f,2/d...@0,0
Thanks for any idea.
--
Andrew Gabriel
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