On Fri 20/03/09 15:28 , Harry Putnam [email protected] sent: > I'm getting close to what I wanted to setup, but in the course of all > mybumping around, experimenting and pestering these lists to death, I've > ended up with zpool on a partition. > > But first let me thank this list for your tolerance and patience. > > Its a 60gb disk, that I had partitioned something like 25/35gb with the > OS on the 25. > > My aim all along was building a home NAS server with zfs and I have > that part on 3 500gb disks. > > So what should I do with disk holding the OS? > > Is it a problem using a partitioned disk with zfs?
No. The root pool has to be on a partition in oder for the BIOS to boot from it. Even selecting a whole drive during install will create a single partion. <snip> > Should I make the partition on the disk rpool is on encompass the > whole disk? I'm not sure how that would be accomplished but pretty > sure it could be done. Probably not worth it. -- Ian. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
