i am attempting to follow the recipe in: http://blogs.sun.com/sa/entry/hotplugging_sata_drives
the recipe copies the vtoc from the old drive to the new drive and then does an attach. when i get to the attach - the partition slices on the new drive overlap (the partition slices on the old drive overlap) - and i get an error message: init...@dogpatch:~# zpool attach rpool c7t0d0s0 c7t1d0s0 invalid vdev specification use '-f' to override the following errors: /dev/dsk/c7t1d0s0 overlaps with /dev/dsk/c7t1d0s2 here is the vtoc of the original drive: init...@dogpatch:~# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c7t0d0s2 * /dev/rdsk/c7t0d0s2 partition map * * Dimensions: * 512 bytes/sector * 63 sectors/track * 255 tracks/cylinder * 16065 sectors/cylinder * 36471 cylinders * 36469 accessible cylinders * * Flags: * 1: unmountable * 10: read-only * * Unallocated space: * First Sector Last * Sector Count Sector * 0 16065 16064 * * First Sector Last * Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory 0 2 00 16065 585858420 585874484 2 5 01 0 585874485 585874484 8 1 01 0 16065 16064 init...@dogpatch:~# the original opensolaris install would have partitioned and formatted this drive - so that partitions 0 and 2 overlap. how do i partition the new mirror so it will attach? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org