Hi all,

I had such high hopes that this would solve my problem.  But it doesn't,
and I think it's telling me that my rpool is just too small to continue.
I've managed to promote opensolaris-5/opt, and destroyed all
the...-4/[EMAIL PROTECTED] pools, but:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# zfs list 
NAME                                                        USED  AVAIL
REFER  MOUNTPOINT
rpool                                                      6.30G  2.80G
61K  /rpool
[EMAIL PROTECTED]                                                19K      -
55.5K  -
rpool/ROOT                                                 5.16G  2.80G
18K  /rpool/ROOT
rpool/[EMAIL PROTECTED]                                             0      -
18K  -
rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-4                                   3.94G  2.80G
2.46G  legacy
rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]                            101M      -
2.22G  -
rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:-:2008-05-15-15:22:22      69.9M      -
2.30G  -
rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:-:2008-06-11-09:04:22       158K      -
2.33G  -
rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:-:2008-06-11-10:06:49       146K      -
2.33G  -
rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:-:2008-06-11-11:21:26       285K      -
2.33G  -
rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:-:2008-06-23-08:32:18      17.7M      -
2.46G  -
rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-5                                   1.22G  2.80G
2.68G  /mnt
rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-5/opt                                450M  2.80G
450M  /mnt/tmp/tmp6m9dz_/opt
rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-5/[EMAIL PROTECTED]                         72K      -
3.60M  -
rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-5/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:-:2008-05-15-15:22:22    91K      -
450M  -
rpool/export                                               1.14G  2.80G
19K  /export
rpool/[EMAIL PROTECTED]                                         15K      -
19K  -
rpool/export/home                                          1.14G  2.80G
1.14G  /export/home
rpool/export/[EMAIL PROTECTED]                                    18K      -
21K  -

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# beadm list

BE            Active Active on Mountpoint Space 
Name                 reboot               Used 
----          ------ --------- ---------- -----
opensolaris-4 no     yes       -          3.94G
opensolaris-5 yes    no        /          1.22G

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# zfs promote rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-5
cannot promote 'rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-5': out of space

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# beadm activate opensolaris-5
beadm: Unable to activate opensolaris-5

Which leaves me strangely concerned about my ability to upgrade next
time I pkg update-image =O(

So, this lappy has a 100G disk in it, much of which is given over to 3
Doze partitions.  One of which is NTFS scratch space I use when dealing
with DVD images, but it's bigger than that, so I *could* par off some of
that to a new partition and add it to the ZFS pool?  Or plug in a 30GB
USB disk, format it, add that to the pool, clean house, then remove the
disk from the pool and leave everything on the current partition?

I've read manuals and stuff, but this is my first ZFS system, so - what
experience do others have to offer here?  CAn someone suggest the best
solution?  I'd not suspected ZFS would be so much more disk hungry than
UFS was under my Nevada install.

TA,
Mark.

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 14:00 +0200, Jan Friedel wrote:
>       Hi,
> 
>       little bit off-topic: 
>       you can sometimes get into situation, where your ABE is clone of
>       some formerly used BE. To be able to destroy the BE from which
>       your currently booted BE (ABE) was snapshotted/cloned use `zfs
>       promote <ABE>`. 
> 
>       /j.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 08:54:15PM -0700, wilson wrote:
> > Thanks a lot , Aubrey
> > 
> > Just followed your advice and i managed to re-claim my once-lost 1G HD 
> > space by destroying  the Opensolaris-1's snapshot. As a bonus, my GRUB now 
> > looks neater and cleaner as well :-)
> > 
> > ------Just list out the steps i've taken
> > 
> > # Beadm list
> > 
> > BE            Active Active on Mountpoint Space 
> > Name                 reboot               Used  
> > ----          ------ --------- ---------- ----- 
> > opensolaris-1 no     no        -          13.91M
> > opensolaris-2 yes    yes       /          7.13G
> > opensolaris   no     no        -          60.25M
> > 
> > # beadm destroy opensolaris-1
> > 
> > Are you sure you want to destroy opensolaris-1? This action cannot be 
> > undone (y/[n]):
> > y
> > 
> > # beadm list
> > 
> > BE            Active Active on Mountpoint Space 
> > Name                 reboot               Used 
> > ----          ------ --------- ---------- -----
> > opensolaris-2 yes    yes       /          7.13G
> > opensolaris   no     no        -          60.25M
> > 
> > # zfs list -t snapshot
> > 
> > NAME                                                        USED  AVAIL  
> > REFER  MOUNTPOINT
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]                                              19.5K      - 
> >    55K  -
> > rpool/[EMAIL PROTECTED]                                           15K      
> > -    18K  -
> > rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]                           64.3M      -  2.22G  
> > -
> > rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:-:2008-06-15-17:13:40      73.0M      -  2.32G 
> >  -
> > rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:-:2008-06-24-14:42:33       647M      -  3.02G 
> >  -
> > rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-2/[EMAIL PROTECTED]                         24K      
> > -  3.60M  -
> > rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-2/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:-:2008-06-15-17:13:40    24K     
> >  -  3.60M  -
> > rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-2/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:-:2008-06-24-14:42:33   448M     
> >  -  1.25G  -
> > rpool/[EMAIL PROTECTED]                                         15K      -  
> >   19K  -
> > rpool/export/[EMAIL PROTECTED]                                    20K      
> > -    21K  -
> > rpool/export/[EMAIL PROTECTED]                                    243M      
> > -   538M  -
> > 
> > 
> > ************NB Those opensolaris-1's snapshots all gone by itself 
> > X)******************
> > 
> > ~# zfs destroy rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-2/[EMAIL 
> > PROTECTED]:-:2008-06-24-14:42:33 
> > 
> > # zfs list -t snapshot
> > 
> > NAME                                                        USED  AVAIL  
> > REFER  MOUNTPOINT
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]                                              19.5K      - 
> >    55K  -
> > rpool/[EMAIL PROTECTED]                                           15K      
> > -    18K  -
> > rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]                           64.3M      -  2.22G  
> > -
> > rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:-:2008-06-15-17:13:40      73.0M      -  2.32G 
> >  -
> > rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-2/[EMAIL PROTECTED]                         24K      
> > -  3.60M  -
> > rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-2/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:-:2008-06-15-17:13:40    24K     
> >  -  3.60M  -
> > rpool/[EMAIL PROTECTED]                                         15K      -  
> >   19K  -
> > rpool/export/[EMAIL PROTECTED]                                    20K      
> > -    21K  -
> > rpool/export/[EMAIL PROTECTED]                                    243M      
> > -   538M  -
> > 
> > ***It's done X)
> >  
> >  
> > This message posted from opensolaris.org
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> 
> 
>       /Jan Friedel <jf (at) Sun.com>
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