I tried it and when I boot into single user and did a format, the increase
in size was not seen.

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Nathan Kroenert <[email protected]> wrote:

> IIRC, I did this ages ago on a box I was playing with.
>
> There was some fooling around to do though... as ZFS boot disks use slices,
> and an SMI label, not an EFI label and whole disk...
>
> I vaguely recall changing the underlying volsize with the LDOM down, then
> net-booting single user, using format to alter the size of slice 0, then
> rebooting all the way back up, and the zpool auto-expanded to use the rest
> of the disk.
>
> And - if you are using mirrors, you won't see the extra space until both
> sides are done.
>
> I'd be inclined to spin up a baby test LDOM and give it a crack - but be
> sure that you get Oracle's buy-in to be sure they won't arbitrarily decide
> that it's not a supported procedure.
>
> You might also need to watch out for the auto-expand property for the zpool
> - depending on what Solaris you are running, you might see different
> behaviour...
>
> Cheers!
>
> Nathan.
>
>
>
> On 8/12/2010 7:42 AM, Tony MacDoodle wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We are using ZFS volumes as guest domain boot disks and was wondering
>> if its possible to increase the size of the boot drives without
>> rebuilding?
>>
>> Thanks
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