On 06/15/2012 03:35 PM, Johannes Totz wrote: > On 15/06/2012 13:22, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: >> On 06/15/2012 02:14 PM, Hans J Albertsson wrote: >>> I've got my root pool on a mirror on 2 512 byte blocksize disks. I >>> want to move the root pool to two 2 TB disks with 4k blocks. The >>> server only has room for two disks. I do have an esata connector, >>> though, and a suitable external cabinet for connecting one extra disk. >>> >>> How would I go about migrating/expanding the root pool to the >>> larger disks so I can then use the larger disks for booting? >>> I have no extra machine to use. >> >> Suppose we call the disks like so: >> >> A, B: your old 512-block drives >> X, Y: your new 2TB drives >> >> The easiest way would be to simply: >> >> 1) zpool set autoexpand=on rpool >> 2) offline the A drive >> 3) physically replace it with the X drive >> 4) do a "zpool replace" on it and wait for it to resilver > > When sector size differs, attaching it is going to fail (at least on fbsd). > You might not get around a send-receive cycle...
Jim Klimov has already posted a way better guide, which rebuilds the pool using the old one's data, so yeah, the replace route I recommended here is rendered moot. -- Saso _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
