Mike Gerdts <[email protected]> writes:

[...]

>> Can I use `dd' for that task or is that likely to have problems with
>> zfs?
>>
>> Is there a better way?
>
> Probably so, using zfs to do the copying of only the used blocks.
> It goes something like:
>
> 1. Physically install the new disk.
> 2. Partition it as you would like (assuming c0t1s0 is the new
>    destination slice)
> 3. zpool attach -f rpool c0t0s0 c0t1s0
> 4. installgrub -m /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c0d1s0
> 5. zpool detach rpool c0t0s0
>
> I used 
>   http://darkstar-solaris.blogspot.com/2008/09/zfs-root-mirror.html
> as for hints on the process.  There may be one more magical step
> (possibly a reboot?) to get it to recognize that rpool is now 500 GB
> instead of 25 GB.

Thanks for the walkthru...   And the site has it in a little more detail.

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