I (mistakenly) installed onto an 18GB SCSI drive a few months ago. pkg image-update worked great until I installed Sun Studio, and now I don't have enough free space to update. I've got a number of other drives in another ZFS pool, and a 36GB drive I intend to replace the 18GB with. Unfortunately, I can't add to rpool. What's the best way around this?
I've sent ZFS snapshots over to the 36GB drive for everything in rpool, and it should be a complete match, but the drive identifier is (obviously) different. However, I don't know if getting rid of zpool.cache, renaming newpool to rpool, and re-installing GRUB would work. Should I just get rid of /rpool/[opt,export] and use /newpool/[opt,export] instead (which should free up enough space)? Would this work? Set up a ZFS mirror with the 36GB drive and break the mirror? I don't know if ZFS would automagically expand to use the entire 36GB, and even then I'm stuck with a broken mirror until I replace the 18GB drive with another 36GB (though the ideal would be to not have a mirror on the root at all, due to constrained space in the case). Basically, what's the best way to solve this problem? Re-installing is something I've reserved as a dead-last option (to the point where I'd rather just stick with B93 forever). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
