Its worth noting you should also go for GPT layout and have a 100meg or so partition provisioned as well so you can do a uefi boot. Even if you arent going to use it right now.
On 30 January 2017 at 03:41, Aristedes Maniatis <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30/1/17 2:20pm, Freddie Cash wrote: > > And, you may be able to do that on the existing disks, as ZFS now leaves > a MB or two of "slack space" at the end of the device used in the vdev. > This allows for using drives/partitions that are the same size in MB but > have different numbers of sectors. This was an issue on the early ZFS days. > > > > So, you may be able to resize the freebsd-zfs partition by a handful of > KB without actually changing the size of the vdev. > > > Brilliant, thank you. That worked a treat with a new boot size of 256k. > > > Note that this page: https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror > needs to be adjusted. This line: > > gpart add -b 34 -s 128k -t freebsd-boot ad0 > > needs to instead be > > gpart add -a 4k -s 512k -t freebsd-boot ad0 > > > I don't have edit rights. Probably someone needs to clean up and merge > many of these pages: https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ > > > Ari > > > > -- > --------------------------> > Aristedes Maniatis > CEO, ish > https://www.ish.com.au > GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
